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”.