European processor initiative: the industrial cornerstone of EuroHPC for exascale era

Abstract

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is a new European Union's strategic entity focused on pooling of the Union's and national resources on HPC to acquire, build and deploy the most powerful supercomputers in the world within Europe. This talk explores the European Processor Initiative (EPI), one of the cornerstones of this European strategic plan, a joint collaboration between more than twenty partners, representing industrial companies, academia and research centres with the goal to build a production processor with drastically better performance and power in support of the EU's focus on delivering its own Exascale-systems built on EU IP and achieving processor independence. Launched in December, the first three years draws processor and platform design; embedded software, middleware, applications and usage experts from 10 EU countries together to co-design Europe's first HPC Systems on Chip and accelerator technologies. The EU-CPU family is targeted to debut in 2020 on a pre-exascale prototype system and production-ready by the 2021 timeframe.