Keynote: Energy-efficient High Performance Compute, at the Heart of Europe

Presented at DVCon Europe 2023
Today supercomputers are essential for meeting Europe major scientific industrial and societal challenges. But Europe is lagging behind in terms of supercomputing equipment. What’s more, 100% of the microprocessor powering European supercomputers are non- European. This lack of sovereign technology has serious implications in highly strategic markets. To tackle this problem, Europe has launched EuroHPC JU and the European Processor Initiative (EPI). With a great success. In this talk, we showcase how SiPearl -- the private company born inside the EPI -- is building the energy-efficient HPC dedicated microprocessor that will power Europe exascale supercomputers. We particularly highlight SiPearl first generation microprocessor Rhea and how it will achieve its target to halve power consumption for the equivalent computing power. Thus, Rhea will contribute to meet strategic challenges for Europe while dramatically reducing the environmental footprint of supercomputing.
Presented by Philippe Notton, CEO and founder, SiPearl
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