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IFP acquires powerful new high-performance scientific computing capabilities to tackle future energy challenges

26 January 2009

IFP has boosted its high-performance computing capabilities through the acquisition of a supercomputer with an overall processing power of 17 Teraflops (one Teraflop = one trillion operations per second). The new configuration, integrated by Serviware, places IFP in the top 5 French public research bodies in terms of computing power.

The available computing power is 4.5 times greater than that of the previous configuration and 350 times greater than it was in 2003. The additional processing potential means that IFP is well-equipped to meet the increasing simulation and modeling requirements associated with current and future technological challenges, particularly in the field of engine combustion, catalysis, the geological storage of CO₂, and the optimized development and production of major oil fields.

The investment reflects the priority given to supercomputing in IFP’s technological innovation strategy. The increasingly powerful processing systems and tools available at IFP guarantee the scientific excellence of the work carried out by its researchers.

Today’s rapidly changing energy context goes hand in hand with some major economic and societal challenges and the new resources give IFP and its partners ANR projects, competitiveness hubs, etc. a competitive and innovative edge to help their researchers face them.

IFP is a world-class public-sector research and training center, aimed at developing the technologies and materials of the future in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. It provides public players and industry with innovative solutions for a smooth transition to the energies and materials of tomorrow – more efficient, more economical, cleaner and sustainable.