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April 27, 2012
AREVA, the CEA and its industrial partners from the
Research and Technology Computing Center (CCRT, Centre de
calcul recherche et technologie) are investing in a new
supercomputer to be installed in May 2012 at the CEA's
Major Computing Center (TGCC, Très grand centre de calcul)
in Bruyères-le-Châtel, in the greater Paris metropolitan
area.
The new supercomputer will give AREVA, Astrium, EDF,
Ineris, Safran and CEA the highest level of computing
resources to support future project development. Digital
simulation is a vital tool in research on power generating
plant operations, nuclear reactor design and safety,
environmental risk assessment, new materials research, and
more.
Equipped with the most advanced processors available, the
new computer will be supplied by Bull. With a peak of 200
teraflops, its evolutionary architecture was sized to meet
the needs of current and future partners. The new
acquisition boosts the CCRT's total computing power to more
than 500 teraflops.
Commenting on the acquisition, Martha Heitzman, AREVA's
Senior Executive Vice President of Research and Development
said "These supercomputers enable AREVA to perform
studies for our customers with more accurate modeling data
in a shorter amount of time, supplementing data from our
technical centers' models. With these tools, we are able to
demonstrate the safety of our reactors more precisely."
Some concepts
The CEA's Major Computing Center (TGCC) has all of the
computer resources and services needed to host
high-performance supercomputers.
Flops is the acronym of FLoating point Operations Per
Second. It is a unit used for measuring the speed or the
calculation capacity of a processor. 1 teraflops
corresponds to one trillion operations per second. Peak
power represents the maximum theoretical power of all of
the computer's processors.
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