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
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”.
EPI’s CCO, prof. dr.sc. Mario Kovač, attended ISSIP 2020 and delivered a keynote titled “European Processor Initiative: Europe’s Industrial Technology Cornerstone for the
Exascale Era”.
SiPearl Joins the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium
At the online event called International Conference on Supercomputing 2020, two EPI partners gave talks that also related to their work in EPI. Andrea Bartolini from the University of Bologna gave a talk titled “RISC-V open-ISA and open-HW – a swiss army knife for HPC”, discussing the effectiveness of RISC-V ISA and Open-HW, while Roger Espasa from SemiDynamics gave a talk titled “Hardening an academic core for industrial use”, where he discussed strategies and challenges of using open-source academic core and hardening for industrial use.
Philippe Notton from SiPearl attended this year’s Austrian HPC meeting and presented the latest in EPI and SiPearl.
EPI’s CCO, Mario Kovač, presented the latest in EPI at the ESA Earth observation workshop in Zagreb.
EPI team members participated in several sessions at the HiPEAC conference in Bologna, Italy, held from January 20-22, 2020.
In addition to having a booth as a HiPEAC sponsor, EPI was presented at the industrial session, in two other workshops (WRC and Eurolab4HPC session) and in EPI’s own tutorial session, where EPI presenters gave talks on Accelerators, Compiler and Software Development, EPI’s Power Aspect and PCIe Daughter.
A clarifying look at the ETP4HPC role in EuroHPC and opportunities for European SMEs