At the online version of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), authors from UNIBO presented their paper titled “An Open-Source Scalable Thermal and Power Controller for HPC Processors for the ICCD 2020”. Video of the presentation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHMS_Lj1LA
The Open Edge and HPC Initiative organized the CODES@OEHI #2 Virtual Hackathon for developers interested in porting applications to Arm-based systems with or without the acceleration provided by GPU (Nvidia Tesla V100-PCIe), and/or in improving the performances of an already ported application. The long-term objective for the hackathon is getting developers accustomed with the Arm ecosystem (HW and SW) in the perspective of the availability of the EPI first-generation microprocessor, for which the roadmap has been presented.
Stéphane Cordova, from EPI’s partner Kalray, tackled the issues of what the Automotive industry is currently facing: a need for performance and a need to consolidate the electronic functions in the car.
Mateo Valero and John Davis from BSC participated in the Russian SC Days, where prof. Valero presented a talk titled “Designing and Building Supercomputers @ BSC”.
At the 2nd TA visitors meeting, John Davis from BSC held a keynote titled: LOCA: Embracing Open Source Hardware to create an Open Source Ecosystem.
RISC-V is trying to launch an open-hardware revolution
At the 4th Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing for Machine Learning, prof. Becker from KIT held a Workshop keynote “Neuromorphic FPGA Integration – HPC, Reliability and NN as Key Enablers”.
Ivan Spisso (CINECA) presented “HPC Benchmark Project: follow-up” at the “8th OpenFOAM Conference”. The presentation outlined the progress of the benchmarking activities aimed at benchmarking and profiling different architectures using different datasets on OpenFOAM, one of the codes selected by EPI for the co-design. It is envisioned that the same datasets will be used on Rhea as soon as it is available, providing important data with respect to the improvements to implement on the second generation.
EPI’s CCO, prof. dr.sc. Mario Kovač, attended ISSIP 2020 and delivered a keynote titled “European Processor Initiative: Europe’s Industrial Technology Cornerstone for the
Exascale Era”.