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Serving Innovation and Industrial Competitiveness Through Public Infrastructures
DescriptionCreated in 2007, GENCI is the French HPC agency. As a public HPC infrastructure, it had an initial focus on serving the needs of academic open research. Throughout the years, the missions of this agency have evolved to include AI and quantum computing, and to spread to an ever-growing industrial open research community. It required moving towards a public-private infrastructure continuum, with sovereignty at heart, supported by projects like AI Factory France and CLUSSTER.

The value creation is only possible when users receive the right level of support, with an adequate orientation. That is why GENCI and its partners have set up high-level support teams in HPC and AI, and are currently exploring ways to federate and lead communities towards the use of HPC-QC environments through the HQI program and the Maisons du Quantique network. Convinced by the efficiency of these initiatives, an increasing number of industrial end-users are joining the movement and engaging in collaborations to leverage these computing capabilities to solve practical use cases. This presentation will showcase concrete examples of the results of GENCI's industrial engagement initiatives in HPC, AI, and quantum computing, demonstrating the essential role of public computing infrastructure in supporting technology transfer, sovereignty, and competitiveness.