{"id":16184,"date":"2025-06-04T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.grandestdeveloppement.fr\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:46:29","slug":"the-latest-generation-of-the-supercomputer-romeo-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.grandestdeveloppement.fr\/en\/the-latest-generation-of-the-supercomputer-romeo-inaugurated\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest generation of the Supercomputer ROMEO inaugurated\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the end of May 2025, the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) <\/strong>inaugurated its latest generation supercomputer, ROMEO, a powerful and eco-efficient tool, available to students, researchers, and businesses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROMEO : A powerful and eco-efficient supercomputer  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“By equipping our university with one of the most powerful and greenest supercomputers in the world, we affirm a dual ambition: to support the research of tomorrow and to contribute to responsible innovation,<\/em>” said Christophe Cl\u00e9ment, President of URCA, during the inauguration of the ROMEO supercomputer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, ROMEO has increased its computing activity by 20 times. Its computing power of 9.863 petaflops (PFlop\/s)<\/strong> allows it to perform 10 million billion operations per second<\/strong>. CombiningHigh-Performance Computing (HPC)<\/strong> and Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>, the new version of ROMEO is the leading university computing power in France.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But ROMEO is not just a powerful supercomputer. It is also eco-efficient. Since 2018, the improvements made on the supercomputer ROMEO could help divide its energy consumption by 4, making it the world’s number 2 and France’s number 1 for eco-efficiency (Green500)<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Supercomputer adapted to many domains and applications\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Arnaud Renard, the ROMEO Regional Computing Center is “the largest machine for artificial intelligence in France accessible to researchers, businesses, and students.<\/em>” Indeed, the supercomputer is currently used for 250 research projects<\/strong>, and agreements have already been concluded with companies based in Eastern France, so these can benefit from this cutting-edge tool<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROMEO provides industries and researchers in the Eastern France with high-performance computing resources, secure storage spaces, and adapted software<\/strong>. The Regional Computing Center (“Centre de Calcul R\u00e9gional”) also offers support in using these tools and expertise in advanced scientific and technical fields such as high-performance computing, applied mathematics, physics, biophysics, and chemistry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the present time, ROMEO is involved in many sectors and “covers all the disciplinary fields of the University of Reims. It is a machine that works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.<\/em>” The supercomputer is specifically used in the following domains:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n