About
CINERI
CINERI operates Senegal's national high-performance computing infrastructure and trains the people who make it speak. Its mission: put compute power at the service of African research — from climate to health, from space to artificial intelligence.
- Location: Cité du Savoir, Diamniadio
- Oversight: MESRI (Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation)
- Role: operating TAOUEY, training, supporting research teams
TAOUEY, the supercomputer
TAOUEY is the national supercomputer — a BullSequana by Atos, third in Africa at acquisition.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Peak performance | ~537.6 Tflops |
| CPU cores | 10,224 (SKL + KNL) |
| GPU | 144 × NVIDIA V100 |
| Storage | 1.1 PB (Lustre) |
It is the machine the Gray Scott School's computations run on.
Official Gray Scott School satellite site
CINERI appears on the school's official satellite-sites list — "Senegal (Dakar) — CINERI", with its own registration link and the cineri.sn website. It is the only satellite site on the African continent, alongside institutions such as KAUST (Saudi Arabia), HLRS (Stuttgart), CERFACS and CNES (Toulouse), Maison de la Simulation (Paris-Saclay), the ROMEO mesocenter (Reims) and the EuroCC national competence centres (Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Luxembourg) — 18 sites, from Leuven to Mersin.
CINERI introduced itself live to the whole school during the June 25 special session: watch the presentation on video.
The Gray Scott School
The Gray Scott School 2026 is a nine-day school on high-performance computing, held at CINERI with the LAPP team. Every day takes the same program — a Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion simulation — and makes it run faster on more of the machine, from a single CPU core to the GPU.
The through-line, day after day: measure, find the limiting factor, exploit the hardware.
Find the day-by-day field notes in the Gray Scott School.
Reference
The reference course is published by LAPP: cta-lapp.pages.in2p3.fr.