AMD and Eviden (an Atos Group brand) have been selected to deliver Alice Recoque, France’s first exascale supercomputer and Europe’s second exascale system. Designed as both a high-performance computing (HPC) platform and an “AI Factory,” the system will boost Europe’s capabilities in AI, climate science, energy, healthcare, and advanced materials research.
The project represents an investment of €544 million. It is funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) under the Digital Europe Programme, together with the Jules Verne Consortium, led by France’s GENCI and CEA, and including participation from SURF (Netherlands) and GRNET (Greece). The system will be hosted and operated by CEA.
Alice Recoque will be powered by AMD’s next-generation compute portfolio, including:
- AMD EPYC™ “Venice” CPUs
- AMD Instinct™ MI430X GPUs, part of the new MI400 Series, are designed for sovereign AI and scientific workloads
- AMD FPGAs, all integrated in Eviden’s new BullSequana XH3500 platform with BXI interconnect and DDN storage
The system is expected to deliver more than one exaflop of HPL performance and to rank among Europe’s top supercomputers for double-precision HPC workloads. With 94 racks, Alice Recoque is designed to reach exascale with 25% fewer racks and components than other exascale systems, and up to 50% better energy efficiency per GPU, supporting Europe’s strict green computing targets.
Each AMD Instinct MI430X GPU includes 432 GB of HBM4 and 19.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth, enabling high throughput and support for advanced AI data types such as FP4 and FP8, targeting large AI models and complex simulations.
The system will be used for:
- Climate and weather modeling
- Materials and energy research
- Digital twins and personalized medicine
- Training and inference for next-generation European AI models
On the infrastructure side, Eviden combines AMD’s hardware with its Argos intelligent software for real-time monitoring and energy optimization, plus 5th-generation Direct Liquid Cooling with warm-water cooling for 100% of in-rack components to improve efficiency and sustainability at scale.
Alice Recoque also reinforces AMD’s growing presence in global HPC. According to the latest Top500 and Green500 rankings, AMD now powers:
- 40% of the world’s top 10 fastest supercomputers, including El Capitan and Frontier, the first true exascale system
- 177 systems on the Top500 list (35% of all listed supercomputers), with 47% of EMEA systems using AMD technology
- 26 of the top 50 most energy-efficient supercomputers on the Green500, including 14 systems in EMEA and 3 in the top 10
With Alice Recoque, France and Europe are positioning themselves at the forefront of sovereign, energy-efficient AI and exascale computing. At the same time, AMD and Eviden further cement their roles as key players in next-generation HPC and AI infrastructure.
