A mission in partnership with GRICAD to strengthen the capacities of the National Computing Centre of Côte d'Ivoire
Apr 27, 2023
An expert mission from the Centre National de Calcul de Côte d’Ivoire (CNCCI) was led by Bruno BZEZNIK, research engineer at GRICAD and Mondher CHEKKI, research engineer at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE).
This mission, financed by the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), meets the ambition of the Ivorian government to develop an ambitious programme allowing major advances in various scientific and industrial fields.
The CNCCI, with a computing power of 322.56 TFlops (322.56 thousand billion elementary calculations in one second) on 7200 cores, 300 nodes and a storage capacity of 1.6 Po, represents the first high-performance computing structure in West Africa. After three days of expertise, Bruno BZEZNIK and Mondher CHEKKI were received on 29 March 2023 by the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Professor Adama DIAWARA. This mission allowed them to transmit a report drawing up a state of the art of the centre as well as a list of recommendations.
A partnership between GRICAD and the CNCCI could be set up in the coming months to support scientific, pedagogical and technical collaborations.