CCIN2P3

Name

CCIN2P3

Legal name

Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3/CNRS

Website

https://cc.in2p3.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Villeurbanne

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Government Research Funding: CC-IN2P3 operates as a CNRS Unité d'Appui à la Recherche (UAR6402) funded primarily through French government research budgets. Services are provided to affiliated research laboratories and experiments, with infrastructure costs covered through institutional funding programs including the ESR/EquipEx+ initiative.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CCIN2P3 is a national scientific computing center that provides high-performance computing (HPC), high-throughput computing (HTC), large-scale mass storage, and OpenStack-based cloud IaaS services to physics research laboratories and international scientific collaborations, notably the LHC experiments at CERN. It is operated as a CNRS research unit and functions as a Tier-1 computing facility within the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

Product overview

CC-IN2P3 is a national research infrastructure operated by CNRS that provides a comprehensive computing and data management ecosystem for scientific research, primarily serving particle physics experiments. The portfolio centers on a computing platform (SLURM-based for HTC/HPC workloads) and a distributed grid computing infrastructure connected to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. Supporting core operations are mass storage systems (340 petabytes on magnetic tape), an OpenStack-based Cloud IaaS service, and a Jupyter notebook platform with GPU resources (H100, L40S). Users access services through the User Portal (portail.cc.in2p3.fr) and Identity Management Portal, supported by a helpdesk and comprehensive documentation. The offering also includes web hosting, database services, and a suite of collaborative tools (Zimbra, Rocket.Chat, GitLab, Indico). An extension project (VIL3 datacenter) is underway to double hosting capacity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• High-Performance Computing (HPC) Service Provides parallel and batch computing capacity for data-intensive simulation and analysis workloads of physics research teams.
• High-Throughput Computing (HTC) Service Grid-based distributed computing service used to process massive volumes of experimental data from particle physics collaborations.
• Mass Storage Service Large-scale scientific data storage service offering hundreds of petabytes of capacity with archival and retrieval capabilities for research data.
• Cloud IaaS (OpenStack) Service OpenStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering virtual machines, block and object storage, and networking for scientific research projects.
• CC-IN2P3 Frontenac Tier-1 Grid Service Tier-1 facility service within the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), supporting data processing, distribution, and archival for LHC experiments.
• Scientific User Support and Training Service User support, documentation, and training services provided to scientific teams using the center's computing, storage, and cloud resources.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.89% cloud service availability (<10 hours annual downtime)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CAP INGELECcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCAP INGELEC served as the design and construction partner for the VIL3 datacenter extension. Their expertise in critical infrastructure was essential for meeting the specific requirements of scientific computing facilities including availability, energy performance, power density, and scalability. The partnership demonstrates successful collaboration between public research institutions and industrial partners for strategic digital infrastructure.
• EGI (European Grid Infrastructure)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCC-IN2P3 has been a member of the pan-European EGI initiative since 2010, contributing to federated computing, storage, and data processing services. The center helped design and implement the EGI Operations Portal, a reference tool for monitoring services across all participating communities and sites within the EOSC framework.
• CERNcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCC-IN2P3 participates in international collaboration with CERN on the DIRAC distributed computing software. Two center agents attended a January 2026 hackathon at CERN to prepare the transition to DIRACX and improve collaborative development practices using SCRUM methodology.
• RENATERcoreTechnology or IntegrationRENATER provides national telecommunications infrastructure connecting CC-IN2P3 to the European GÉANT network. In 2024, RENATER upgraded CC-IN2P3's LHC-dedicated connectivity from 200 to 400 Gbit/s and increased GÉANT connectivity to 800 Gbit/s to support HL-LHC data transfer requirements.
• KEK Computing Research Center (Japan)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCC-IN2P3 organized the eighth Japan-France workshop with KEK Computing Research Center in February 2025 to exchange on computing issues for high-energy physics, discuss identity federation interoperability (eduGAIN/GakuNin), and explore AI/LLM applications in research.
• Huma-NumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench research infrastructure for humanities and social sciences. CC-IN2P3 provided GPU training in November 2025 to Huma-Num users, offering access to H100 and L40S GPU resources via SLURM and Jupyter platforms for AI applications in SHS research.
• EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCC-IN2P3 contributes to EOSC initiative for sharing, exploiting, reusing, and preserving scientific data. Participation spans multiple EOSC-related projects including EOSC-Future, EOSC-Pilot, and EOSC-Pillar.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PIC (Port d'Informació Científica): PIC is the Spanish Tier 1 center for the WLCG, jointly operated by IFAE and CIEMAT. Directly comparable Tier 1 service portfolio for LHC experiments and a fellow member of the EGI federation alongside CC-IN2P3.
• CERN IT Department: CERN operates the Tier 0 of the WLCG and is the principal funder/partner of CC-IN2P3's Tier 1 services for LHC experiments. Directly comparable mission (high-energy physics data processing and storage at petabyte scale) and a co-development relationship on the DIRAC/DIRACX distributed-computing middleware.
• GridKa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): GridKa is the German Tier 1 center in the WLCG operated by KIT, providing mass storage and computing for LHC experiments in the same operational model as CC-IN2P3. Directly comparable in scale, scope, and Tier 1 mission within the same pan-European grid federation.
• STFC Scientific Computing (RAL): The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory operates the UK Tier 1 (UK-T1) for the WLCG, providing grid computing and mass storage to LHC experiments. Closely comparable mission, scale, and customer base (particle physics and adjacent UK research).
• Brookhaven National Laboratory (SDCC / BNL Tier 1): BNL hosts the US ATLAS Tier 1 facility and the Scientific Data and Computing Center, serving LHC and other physics experiments. Direct peer in WLCG Tier 1 operations with similar petabyte-scale storage and distributed computing mandates.

Broad incumbents

• CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre): CSCS is the Swiss national HPC center providing leadership-class computing and storage to Swiss and European research, including physics. Comparable as a national research-computing infrastructure operator with overlapping HPC, storage, and federation capabilities, though broader in scientific scope.
• TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center): TACC is a US academic HPC center operating leadership-class systems for open science. Comparable in operating large-scale HPC and storage for a national research community and providing federation/portal services analogous to CC-IN2P3's User Portal.
• Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC): JSC operates one of Europe's largest HPC centers within Forschungszentrum Jülich, serving German and European research communities. Comparable as a Tier 0/1-equivalent research-computing center with HPC, storage, and federation services, on a larger national-scale footprint.
• GENCI: GENCI is the French national agency that owns and operates the major Tier 0 HPC systems (e.g., at TGCC) used by French research. Co-funder of the FITS EquipEx+ project alongside CC-IN2P3 and IDRIS, with a closely related mission of provisioning HPC to French research.
• IDRIS (CNRS): IDRIS is CNRS's other national computing center, providing HPC resources to a broader set of scientific domains. Sister organization within CNRS with overlapping HPC and storage missions; explicitly co-funds the FITS project with CC-IN2P3 and GENCI.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/in2p3_cnrs
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@cc-in2p3cnrs99
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ijclab

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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