The Research and Technology Computing Center (''Centre de calcul recherche et technologie'', CCRT) is a
supercomputing
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
center in
Île-de-France
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The center started operation in 2003 and is part of the
CEA scientific computing complex in
Bruyères-le-Châtel
Bruyères-le-Châtel () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
History
A nunnery was founded at Bruyères-le-Châtel by a noblewoman named Clotilde. The charter endowing the monastery is dated to 10 March 67 ...
. It operates the
Tera 100 Tera 100 is a supercomputer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.
On May 26, 2010, Tera 100 was turned on. The computer, which is located in Essonne is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs maximum performance and a p ...
machine, as of July 2011 the fastest supercomputer in Europe with a peak of 1.25
petaFLOPs
In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate meas ...
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PC World May 28, 2010
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See also
* TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...
* National Computer Center for Higher Education (France)
The National Computer Center for Higher Education (''CINES''), based in Montpellier, is a public institution of French administrative character placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Research and Innovation (''MESRI''), and created by de ...
* Supercomputing in Europe
Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed Eu ...
References
External links
Official website
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputers
Science and technology in France
2003 establishments in France
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