At the National Conference on 5G and the Mobility of Tomorrow in Pisa, Italy, EPI’s Sergio Saponara from UNIPI offered a talk titled “European Processor Initiative: embedded High Performance Computing for Automated and Connected Vehicles”.

Industry Strategy Symposium, organized by SEMI, took place in Milano, Italy. EPI’s Mateo Valero, BSC, offered a keynote titled “BSC Roadmap for HPC in Europe”, also introducing EPI roadmap and direction.

This presentation at a major semiconductor industry event gave background on the race towards exascale and where Europe needs to be stronger. It explains the evolution of Arm-based technologies at BSC and in European projects before turning to open hardware. It then goes on to explore the background to EuroHPC and the European HPC roadmap, followed by an introduction to EPI and the EPI roadmap.

The HPCXXL Winter Meeting 2019 was colocated together with the HPC Advisory Council meeting in Lugano, Switzerland on March 31. – April 05. 2019. EPI’s CCO, Mario Kovač, presented EPI with a talk titled “European Processor Initiative: The EuroHPC Industrial Cornerstone”.

Chairman of the EPI General Assembly Board, Jean-Marc Denis, held a presentation on EPI at the Supercomputing Asia event. EPI was also presented at a shared booth, with its roll-up and EPI flyers, together with PRACE and ETP4HPC initiatives.

At the Going Digital conference, a part of MW Congress in Barcelona, Mateo Valero gave a presentation to industry representatives and gave a brief overview of the history of computing and then explained the need for European technological sovereignty. It also explained the background to EuroHPC before discussing what EPI would deliver (high-performance processor, high-performance accelerator, platform for autonomous cars).

The 1st R-CCS International Symposium summarized the efforts of the K computer, to be retired in 2019, as well as discussed emergent application fields for the Post-K and the Arm HPC ecosystem. The symposium had oral/poster sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. EPI’s lead architect, Yingchih Yang, gave a presentation called Europe strikes back on HPC.

EPI’s Mateo Valero visited Centro de Investigación en Computación del IPN, Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Ciudad de Mexico, and gave an invited talk titled “HPC Perspectives and Challenges for Europe”.

ICT 2018 took place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. This research and innovation event attracted several thousand visitors and focussed on the European Union’s priorities in the digital transformation of society and industry. EPI’s Mateo Valero presented HPC Perspectives and Challenges for Europe, at the very official beginning of EPI project.