The European High Performance Computing Initiative EuroHPC JU announced its intention to hold a competition for funding projects in the field of creating HPC systems based on the RISC-V architecture. Offers will be accepted from January 26 to April 4, 2023.
The European Union plans to allocate €270 million for the development of the RISC-V ecosystem. We are talking about both hardware solutions and related software. In particular, a chiplet-based approach will be explored to allow RISC-V processors to be paired with accelerators in the same chip package.
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The initiative aims to reduce Europe’s dependence on x86 and Arm products. At the beginning of 2022, the EuroHPC JU consortium announced the allocation of €141 million for the development of its own CPUs, accelerators and supercomputers. It was also about solutions based on RISC-V. The European Union has already adopted a Chip Law aimed at creating a new ecosystem for the production of chips: the document contains repeated references to the RISC-V architecture.
Scientific institutions in Europe have created experimental systems based on RISC-V. For example, users can access the SUPER-V platforms at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and ExCALIBUR at the University of Edinburgh. And the European Processor Initiative has developed RISC-V machine learning accelerators, which will appear on exascale supercomputers in the coming years. BSC and Intel jointly design a RISC-V supercomputer chip.
In general, interest in RISC-V from IT companies is growing rapidly. Recently, several developers have presented solutions in this area at once. Thus, Ventana Micro Systems announced a whole family of high-performance processors, the first of which was the Veyron V1 chip. MIPS has a high-performance core eVocore P8700 based on RISC-V, SiFive has a Performance P670 core. Andes introduced AndesCore AX60 RISC-V chips for AI, 5G and data center.
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