Unipi Team Leader: prof. Sergio Saponara, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’Informazione.
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) gets together 23 partners from 10 European countries, with the aim to bring to the market a low power microprocessor. It gathers experts from the High Performance Computing (HPC) research community, the major supercomputing centres, and the computing and silicon industry as well as the potential scientific and industrial users. Through a co-design approach, it will design and develop the first European HPC Systems on Chip and accelerators. Both elements will be implemented and validated in a prototype system that will become the basis for a full Exascale machine based on European technology.
The main objectives of the EPI are to:
- Develop low-power processor technology to be included in a European pre-exascale system (capable of around 1016 calculations per second) and in European exascale systems (a billion billion or 1018 calculations per second),
- Guarantee that a significant part of that technology is European,
- Ensure that the application areas of the technology are not limited only to HPC, but cover other areas such as the automotive sector or the data centres, thus ensuring the overall economic viability of the initiative. One specific objective for the automotive sector is for instance to develop customized processors able to meet the performance needed for autonomous cars.
EPI will provide to the European industry and research a competitive HPC platform and data processing solutions at world class level in the best interest of data security and ownership.
Partners
- BULL SAS France
- BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION Spain
- INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG Germany
- SEMIDYNAMICS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES S.L. Spain
- COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES France
- CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB Sweden
- EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Switzerland
- FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS Greece
- GRAND EQUIPEMENT NATIONAL DE CALCUL INTENSIF France
- INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO Portugal
- FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH Germany
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA Italy
- SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FAKULTET ELEKTROTEHNIKE I RACUNARSTVA Croatia
- FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Germany
- STMICROELECTRONICS SRL Italy
- E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING SPA Italy
- UNIVERSITA DI PISA Italy
- SURFSARA BV Netherlands
- KALRAY SA France
- EXTOLL GMBH Germany
- CINECA CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO Italy
- BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Germany
- ELEKTROBIT AUTOMOTIVE GMBH Germany
Project cost about 120 million €
Project funding about 120 million €
Call title H2020-ICT-2016-2017
Unipi role Partner
Project website http://european-processor-initiative.com/