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.

At the 4th Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing for Machine Learning, prof. Becker from KIT held a Workshop keynote “Neuromorphic FPGA Integration – HPC, Reliability and NN as Key Enablers”.

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”.

IST team presented their paper titled “Reconfigurable Streaming Tensor Unit with Variable-Precision Posit Arithmetic”. Video of the presentation is available here: https://asap2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk/paper.php?id=87, while the link to Open Access of the paper is in our repository here: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/dissemination-material/reconfigurable-streaming-tensor-unit-with-variable-precision-posit-arithmetic/

Oscar Palomar from BSC presented energy-efficient vector architectures at the LEGaTO project workshop. Slides can be accessed here: https://www.slideshare.net/secret/hUCxifkvkFVyic

At the Linnaro Connect, EPI’s Chairman of the Board, Jean-Marc Denis, gave a keynote titled “EPI: the European approach for Exascale ages. The road to sovereignty.”, while SiPearl’s VP Marketing & Business Development, Craig Prunty, gave another talk titled “Developing Rhea, the SiPearl European High-Performance Processor”.

EPI Chairman of the Board, Jean-Marc Denis, attended the Korean Supercomputing 20 that was held virtually, and delivered a keynote titled “The European approach for exascale ages. The road toward sovereignty”.

EPI Chairman of the Board, Jean-Marc Denis, held a keynote at the RISC-V Global Forum titled “EPI, the European approach for Exascale ages. The road toward sovereignty”, and Roger Espasa, from SemiDynamics, also gave a talk titled “Introducing SemiDynamics High Bandwidth RISC V IP Cores”.

Luca Benini, University of Bologna, Italy and Frank K. Gürkaynak, ETH Zürich, Switzerland held sessions of a lecture at ACACES20 Summer School, titled “Working with RISC-V: from open ISA to open Architecture to open Hardware”, where they also touched upon their work in EPI. 

Videos from the sessions are available here:

https://www.hipeac.net/acaces/2020/#/program/courses/3/downloads/

The hackathon was a coding event in which teams of developers ported their applications to run on GPUs, or optimized their applications that already run on GPUs.