Jean-Marc Denis, HPC International Business Director at Bull, the EPI consortium coordinator, presents EPI at HPC User Forum in Detroit. In the presentation, Jean-Marc focuses on industrial perspectives of the project, the state of the art in HPC industry and our vision to tackle the exascale challenges.

Video is available here

Prof. Mateo Valero, director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, presented the European Processor Initiative in RISC-V Workshop, Barcelona 7-10 May, 2018. His keynote focused on the role of RISC-V architecture in the EPI project and in future exascale computing systems in general.

Video is available here

Consortium partners of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) met in Brussels on December 18^th and 19^th 2018 to kick off the project that will be the cornerstone of EU’s strategic plans in High-Performance Computing.

The Initiative gathers 26 partners from 10 European countries with the aim of bringing to the market a low-power microprocessor and ensuring that the key competence of high-end chip design remains in Europe. The European Union’s Horizon 2020 program funded this new project with a special Framework Partnership Agreement. The initial stage is a three-year Special Grant Agreement 1, that is expected to finish in November 2021.

Experts gathered in EPI cover all the relevant areas for such a feat: High-Performance Computing research community, major supercomputing centres, and the computing, automotive and silicon industry as well as the potential scientific and industrial users. Through a co-design approach, it will design and develop the first European HPC System on Chip and accelerators through several major streams of operation:

• Common Platform and global architecture stream
• HPC general purpose processor stream
• Accelerator stream
• Automotive platform stream

The consortium agreed on the objectives of the kick-off which were to agree on the project management control, provide information on the technical development, define syncing points between tasks and ensure all stream leaders and Global Technical Leader have enough information to proceed with the projects schedule. On the first day, the partners discussed management and dissemination and communication activities, as well as global technical stream, in addition to a General Assembly meeting, while the second day was reserved for parallel sessions on specific streams.

Philippe Notton, General Manager of the European Processor Initiative, gave a presentation on EPI activities and efforts in Lisbon, November 21^st 2018, attending the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems. Presenting EPI goals, Mr Notton explained the core ideas behind EPI project and its overall line-up with European strategic goals set out in EuroHPC JU. He also presented the EPI Roadmap, ranging from 2021 towards the vision in 2024 – from Generation 1 General-purpose Processor, through Generation 2 and Generation 3, utilizing EPI common platform

The European Commission published an official announcement of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) on its website. The announcement confirmed there are 23 partners in the project and the budget amounts to 120 million euro.

Take a look at the EC announcement

Article written by prof. dr. sc. Mario Kovač, Dissemination Leader of the European Processor Initiative, has been published on CIO Applications Europe.

The article introduces EPI’s goals and efforts in tackling global challenges and potential European responses to HPC-related activities.

Read the whole article about “Changing Approaches to HPC Systems

Philippe Notton, General Manager of the European Processor Initiative, gave a presentation on EPI activities and efforts in Versailles, December 5^th2018, attending the SIA CESA 5.0 International Conference and Exhibition.

Presenting EPI goals, Mr Notton explained the core ideas behind EPI project and its overall line-up with European strategic goals set out in EuroHPC JU. He also presented the EPI Roadmap, ranging from 2021 towards the vision in 2024 – from Generation 1 General-purpose Processor, through Generation 2 and Generation 3, utilizing EPI common platform.