Stream leader Filippo Mantovani presented the paper EPAC: the last dance at the Computing Frontiers 26.

This was an invited paper at the Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF Companion ’26 ), May 19-21, 2026, Catania, Italy

Open Access version available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12715

Project press release, published on November 14th, 2025, is also available in the news section:

EPI Announces SC25 Attendance to present results: Proactive Compute Showcases FAUST and FEVER

At HiPEAC25, EPI colleagues from BSC had two presentations:

Pablo Vizcaino: RAVE: RISC-V Analyzer of Vector Executions, a QEMU tracing plugin

Marta Garcia-Gasulla: Co-design, from a buzzword to a reality, an EPI success story

Find them here in the ZIP attached.

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.

Project press release, published on November 8th, 2023, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/european-processor-initiative-announces-the-successful-bring-up-of-the-epac1-5-acceleration-chip/

Project press release, published on December 22nd, 2021, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/successful-conclusion-of-european-processor-initiative-phase-one/.

Greek institute pioneers cutting-edge EU chip technology

Project press release, published on September 22nd, 2021, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/epi-epac1-0-risc-v-test-chip-samples-delivered/.

Project press release, published on June 1st, 2021, is also available in the news section: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/epi-epac1-0-risc-v-test-chip-taped-out/