Our colleagues from UNIPI presented at SMARTCOMP, with a paper titled: A Novel Posit-based Fast Approximation of ELU Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks. The poster from the conference is available here.
EPI Chairman of the Board, Jean-Marc Denis, held a keynote at the RISC-V Global Forum titled “EPI, the European approach for Exascale ages. The road toward sovereignty”, and Roger Espasa, from SemiDynamics, also gave a talk titled “Introducing SemiDynamics High Bandwidth RISC V IP Cores”.
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EuroHPC Research and Innovation Call Announced
New RISC-V CTO On Open Source Chip Architecture’s Global Data Center Momentum
Luca Benini, University of Bologna, Italy and Frank K. Gürkaynak, ETH Zürich, Switzerland held sessions of a lecture at ACACES20 Summer School, titled “Working with RISC-V: from open ISA to open Architecture to open Hardware”, where they also touched upon their work in EPI.
Videos from the sessions are available here:
https://www.hipeac.net/acaces/2020/#/program/courses/3/downloads/
SiPearl, Arm to Present at the Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum
The hackathon was a coding event in which teams of developers ported their applications to run on GPUs, or optimized their applications that already run on GPUs.