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Janine Connes, founder of the CNRS Inter-Regional Electronic Computing Centre (CIRCÉ) in 1969 and its director until 1982, passed away on 28 November 2024 at the age of 98. Together with her husband Pierre Connes, she formed a high-flying scientific duo, with Pierre as the experimenter and Janine processing and analysing the results numerically. This pair established the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy method, which is of major importance in this field. The page on the University of California Los Angeles website dedicated to Mrs Connes attests to this. She also played a crucial role in the development of numerical simulation in France, enabling the CNRS to acquire the necessary resources to serve all scientific communities. She provides a detailed account of this saga in her book From the IBM 360/75 to the Jean Zay Supercomputer, written with the participation of Françoise Perriquet and published in 2022[^1]. We will briefly recall only the premises and the main stages here.

Deepmind has open-sourced Alphafold 3 and made it available on GitHub. However, the model weights are subject to a licence that makes it impossible to provide them to all IDRIS users.

https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold3/blob/main/WEIGHTS_TERMS_OF_USE.md

Indeed, a number of people using IDRIS resources are not part of the academic world.

We will contact Deepmind to see if it is possible in our situation to share the weights. While waiting for a response, we will apply the following procedure:

• IDRIS will install the code so that it is accessible to all users.
• Each person wishing to use Alphafold 3 must obtain authorisation from Deepmind via the following form https://forms.gle/svvpY4u2jsHEwWYS6. Please note that the response may take up to 2 weeks.
• The weights must be installed locally on the account of each person wishing to use Alphafold 3.

We have requested the model weights to perform internal tests.

Once these tests are completed, we will publish documentation on the website with all the steps to run Alphafold 3.

This post provides an overview of the ongoing operations for the commissioning of the Jean Zay H100 extension. The information provided here will evolve over time, and we invite you to check back regularly.

1456 GPU H100 to break the 125 PFlop/s barrier

GENCI and the CNRS choose Eviden to make the Jean Zay supercomputer one of the most powerful machines in France.

Following the announcement by the President of the Republic at Vivatech in June 2023, the National High-Performance Computing Facility (GENCI) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), under the leadership of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, have selected Eviden to provide a major extension of the Jean Zay supercomputer's capabilities, funded under the France 2030 plan.

This announcement marks a new step for sovereign AI.

An official press release is published on the CNRS website: https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/genci-et-le-cnrs-choisissent-eviden-pour-faire-du-supercalculateur-jean-zay-lune-des

Here are the new features of the Jean Zay supercomputer following this extension:

Planned schedule for the commissioning of the H100 extension of Jean Zay: