The European Processor Initiative aims to bring together research, design and manufacturing of a home-grown European processor

EPI held its first EPI forum in Barcelona, on October 9 and 10, 2024. It was a two-day event with the following presentations:

• Etienne Walter (Eviden, an Atos business): EPI Overview
• Stephane Requena (GENCI): AI Keynote
• Mateo Valero (BSC): European Supercomputers Keynote: Buy versus Build
• Jean-Pierre Panziera (Eviden, an Atos business): High Performance Computing in the AI era
• Eric Lalardie (Arm): Enabling European Innovation with Arm Technology
• Daniele Piccarozzi (AMD): AMD solutions for HPC and AI
• Philippe Notton (SiPearl): Overview of SiPearl’s Seine Platform
• Roger Espasa (SMD): Semidynamics All-in-One solution for next-generation RISC-V AI
• Craig Prunty (SiPearl): Arm/Rhea in high-end HPC
• Alexandra Kourfali (EuroHPC JU): EuroHPC chips initiatives: the road towards European technological sovereignty
• Rod Evans (NVIDIA): Enabling AI Nations
• Filippo Mantovani (BSC): Pushing RISC-V to HPC: the story of EPI Accelerator (EPAC)
• Filippo Mantovani (BSC): VEC
• Andrea Bocco (CEA): VRP
• Tim Fischer (ETHZ): STX
• David Snelling (Fujitsu): Fujitsu-Monaka: Data Center Ready, ARM Processor

The presentations are available in the zip file of this item.

Project press release, published on November 8th, 2023, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/european-processor-initiative-announces-the-successful-bring-up-of-the-epac1-5-acceleration-chip/

Project press release, published on December 22nd, 2021, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/successful-conclusion-of-european-processor-initiative-phase-one/.

Greek institute pioneers cutting-edge EU chip technology

Project press release, published on September 22nd, 2021, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/epi-epac1-0-risc-v-test-chip-samples-delivered/.

Project press release, published on June 1st, 2021, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/epi-epac1-0-risc-v-test-chip-taped-out/

Project press release, published on March 9, 2021, is also available in the news section:
https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/epi-epac1-0-risc-v-core-boots-linux-on-fpga/

Project press release, published on November 9, 2020, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/european-processor-initiative-second-year-of-activities

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”.