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.
EPI Consortium members published “Software Development Vehicles to Enable Extended and Early Co-design: A RISC-V and HPC Case of Study” at ISC High Performance 2023: High Performance Computing.
Here you can find a link to an open access version of the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01797
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40843-4_39
Presentation from the conference is also available below in .pdf.
Europe to Dish out €270 Million to Build RISC-V Hardware and Software
RISC-V Is Far from Being an Alternative to x86 and Arm in HPC
EPI Consortium members published “NTT Architecture for a Linux-Ready RISC-V Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Accelerator” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.
Here you can find a link to an open access version of the article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9763876.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2022.3166550.
Roger Espasa (Semidynamics) held a presentation at HiPEAC 2022 Conference in Budapest.
John D. Davis from BSC held a talk titled “RISC-V in Europe: The Road to an Open Source HPC Stack.”
Jesús Labarta (BSC) held a presentation titled “RISC-V vector processor in EPI (European Processor Initiative).”
Francesco Minervini and Oscar Palomar Perez from BSC presented the RISC-V vector accelerator at RISC-V Summit 2021. Their talk was titled Vitruvius: An Area-Efficient RISC-V Decoupled Vector Accelerator for High Performance Computing.