Prof. Sergio Saponara from UNIPI was invited as a Distinguished Lecturer to the IEEE Sensors France workshop. His presentation touched upon how the race towards Autonomous and Connected cars will revolutionize the mobility of people, with a tremendous social and economic impact. EmbeddedHPC is a key enabling technology for this revolution and EPI ecosystem can be at the core of this revolution.

EPI Consortium members published “Software-only based Diverse Redundancy for ASIL-D Automotive Applications on Embedded HPC Platforms” at the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology.

Here you can find a link to an open access version of the article:

http://hdl.handle.net/2117/333080

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT50435.2020.9250750

EuroHPC Exec. Dir. Talks Procurement, EPI, and Europe’s Efforts to Control its HPC Destiny

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

EPI Consortium members published “A Novel Posit-based Fast Approximation of ELU Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks” in I2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP).

Here you can find a link to an open access version of the article:

https://zenodo.org/record/4042854#.X6hQDYhKiUk

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SMARTCOMP50058.2020.00053

At the online version of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), authors from UNIBO presented their paper titled “An Open-Source Scalable Thermal and Power Controller for HPC Processors for the ICCD 2020”. Video of the presentation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHMS_Lj1LA

The Open Edge and HPC Initiative organized the CODES@OEHI #2 Virtual Hackathon for developers interested in porting applications to Arm-based systems with or without the acceleration provided by GPU (Nvidia Tesla V100-PCIe), and/or in improving the performances of an already ported application. The long-term objective for the hackathon is getting developers accustomed with the Arm ecosystem (HW and SW) in the perspective of the availability of the EPI first-generation microprocessor, for which the roadmap has been presented.

Stéphane Cordova, from EPI’s partner Kalray, tackled the issues of what the Automotive industry is currently facing: a need for performance and a need to consolidate the electronic functions in the car.

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”.

At the 2nd TA visitors meeting, John Davis from BSC held a keynote titled: LOCA: Embracing Open Source Hardware to create an Open Source Ecosystem.