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.

SiPearl Picks Ansys’s Power Signoff Solution for European Supercomputer Chip

Mario Brčić from UNIZG held a presentation, including EPI activities in Croatian NCC.

Prof. Mateo Valero attended the 22nd IEEE International Conference on HPC and Communications (HPCC-2020) and gave a keynote titled “The future of HPC will be Open”.

Chairman of EPI Board, Jean-Marc Denis, held a keynote at HPC Asia 2021.

EPI team participated in several activities in Digital HiPEAC 2021 conference: EPI Tutorial, Industrial session, and WRC workshop.

The materials are all zipped here, and a link to YT recording of the Tutorial is available.

Jean-Marc Denis gave a keynote at the 20th PC Cluster Symposium, titled “Exascale Supercomputers are game-changers for General Purpose Microprocessors. Why?”

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”.