On Friday, the computer hardware company, IBM, announced that it is going to collaborate with French agency the Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI). The motive of the partnership will be to generate some scientific codes to accelerate exascale computing. It is an ability of computing systems which allows at least one exaflop per second.

Today, about 10 to 33 petaflops are performed by the world’s fastest systems. While announcing the partnership, the Armonk, New York, headquartered IBM said, “Put into context, if exascale computing is the equivalent of an automobile reaching 1000 miles per hour, today’s fastest systems are running within a range between ten and 33 miles per hour”.

According to the company, its deal with GENCI will take place for about one and half year. Its aim will be to work on scientific applications for systems to achieve over 100 petaflops. GENCI owned for about 49% by the French State, while 20% by Commissariat à l’énergie atomique. French National Centre for Scientific Research has about 20% of GENCI; 10% by the Universities, while the remaining 1% by the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control.

The main aim of GENCI is to provide funds to make sure the coordination of the major equipments of the country’s high-performance computing centers, by providing funding and assuming ownership. According to reports, the deal IBM and GENCI will also benefit OpenPOWER, but it focus is to advance efforts to get to exascale.