This short film introduces Alice Recoque, the exascale supercomputer named in honour of the pioneering French computer scientist of the same name. Rather than a technical walkthrough, the video is a tribute, connecting her legacy in computer architecture and artificial intelligence (AI) to the system built to carry her name forward.
Alice Recoque is presented as France's first exascale supercomputer and AI factory, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and delivered through the Jules Verne consortium, led by GENCI and CEA, with SURF and GRNET as partners. The system is built on Bull's BullSequana XH3500 platform with BXI v3 interconnect, powered by AMD EPYC "Venice" CPUs and AMD Instinct MI400-series GPUs.
The video frames Alice Recoque as more than a piece of infrastructure: a platform intended to support European sovereignty in computing and AI, and to accelerate work in areas such as earth sciences, clean energy, personalised medicine and data-driven discovery.
For viewers interested in European HPC and AI investment, the video offers a concise sense of:
Who Alice Recoque was, and why the supercomputer carries her name
Which organisations are funding and delivering the project
The core hardware and interconnect technology behind the system
The scientific and societal domains the system is designed to support
Watch the video to see how Bull, AMD and European partners are framing this exascale system as both a technical milestone and a continuation of a pioneer's legacy in computing.
Speak to our team about Alice Recoque and how Bull, AMD and European partners are building sovereign exascale computing and AI infrastructure for science and industry.
