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The Alice Recoque supercomputer will be owned by EuroHPC JU. The system will be hosted and operated by the Jules Verne consortium, led by France through GENCI and the Commissariat à energy atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA), with the participation of the Netherlands through SURF and Greece through GRNet.
The new EuroHPC supercomputer will be located and operated at CEA’s Très Grand Centre de calcul du (TGCC) in Bruyères-le-Châtel, France.
Alice Recoque will be co-funded with a total budget of around EUR 355 million covering the acquisition, delivery, installation, and maintenance of the system. The EuroHPC JU will finance 50% of the total cost through the Digital Europe Programme (DEP), while the remaining 50% will be funded by France, the Netherlands and Greece within the Jules Verne consortium. Installation of the system is scheduled to start in 2026.
EuroHPC JU is a legal and funding entity that brings together the European Union and participating countries to coordinate efforts and pool resources with the objective of making Europe a world leader in supercomputing. The EuroHPC JU is currently overseeing the implementation of 19 AI factories (AIF) across Europe, complemented by 13 AI Factory Antennas, to offer free, customised support to SMEs and startups. Alice Recoque will be at the heart of the AI Factory France project. In parallel, the EuroHPC JU is deploying a European Quantum Computing infrastructure, integrating diverse European quantum computing technologies with existing supercomputers. EuroHPC JU has already inaugurated PIAST-Q in Poznań, Poland, VLQ in Ostrava, Czechia, and just last week, Jade and Ruby - the HPCQS quantum simulators, marking a milestone in Europe’s leap into the quantum era. To equip Europe with a state-of-the-art supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already procured 11 supercomputers, distributed across Europe including JUPITER in Germany, Europe’s first exascale system. Alice Recoque will further strengthen this network and reinforce Europe’s technological sovereignty in high performance computing, AI, and quantum technologies.