The ECLAT joint laboratory
Uncovering the mysteries of the universe using HPC and AI
ECLAT : Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes
Coming soon
Webinar:
GASKAP, a 21 cm survey of Magellanic clouds and the Milky Way at high spectral resolution with ASKAP: objectives and technical challenges
From 02 to 06 June 2025
Second General Assembly and Hackathon
Our mission
A centre of excellence in HPC and AI for astronomical instrumentation
ECLAT is the laboratory dedicated to High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for astronomical instrumentation, stemming from the French contribution to SKAO, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory. Its mission is to facilitate the R&D partnerships needed to design and build future cyber-physical systems for astronomy.
Photo : NASA
The partners
A joint laboratory
Laboratories and teams
Researchers and engineers
Common roadmap
ECLAT is a nationwide collaborative laboratory based on close partnerships and large-scale initiatives at national and European level. It combines the efforts of sixteen laboratories and teams affiliated to the CNRS, Inria, Eviden, the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and the Observatoire de Paris.
Photo : Oeil de verre / Flickr
Research areas
Pushing the limits of innovation
Design of supercomputers
Research & development
Instrumentation for radio astronomy
Contributions to SKAO
News and Events
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Looking back at the ECLAT hackathon at Manoir de Kerazan
From 2 to 6 June 2025, the ECLAT laboratory brought its community together in a unique setting, the Kerazan manor in Loctudy, for an intense week of exchanges, innovation and collective reflection on one of the major challenges facing astronomy in the future: the...
Lecture: Tomorrow’s Challenges in Astronomy
The ECLAT joint laboratory is organising a lecture by Damien Gratadour on Tuesday 3 June at 18:00 on the challenges of astronomy at the Manoir de Kerazan in Loctudy, as part of the ECLAT hackathon taking place there from 2 to 6 June.The challenges of future astronomy:...
Webinar: Towards better I/O resource usage in HPC
Towards better I/O resource usage in HPCIn HPC systems, I/O resources are not traditionally arbitrated in the same way as compute resources (nodes, CPUs, etc). However, I/O resources have an important impact on performance, and this impact depends on application...
Projects and collaborations
The synergies around ECLAT
Photo: ECLAT 2024 technical workshop participants
SEAMS
Upstream R&D project on new frugal technologies for intensive computing
STREAMS
Platform for integrating new HPC and AI technologies
Rising Stars
International network on cyber-physical systems under real-time constraints
Numpex
Numpex brings together 5 projects focusing on Exascale
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Find out how you can contribute to innovation in astronomical research with ECLAT. Explore our pioneering projects and international collaborations to push back the frontiers of modern astronomy.