EuPilot: Pilot using Independent Local & Open Technologies

Accelerators provide the majority of performance in modern High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and are the fundamental building blocks for Exascale systems. The European PILOT (Pilot using Independent Local & Open Technology) is the first demonstration of two ALL-European HPC and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) accelerators, designed, implemented, manufactured, and owned by Europe. The European PILOT accelerators target workloads in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL) among other HPC tasks. The pilot combines open source software (SW) and open and proprietary hardware (HW) to deliver the first completely European full-stack software, accelerator, and integrated ecosystem based on RISC-V cores with accelerators coupled to any general purpose processor (CPU) via PCIe Gen 6.0 or CXL 3.0. This pilot will demonstrate key HPC and HPDA workloads and software stacks. The European PILOT is also the first to demonstrate an ALL-European HPC ecosystem. The accelerators will be manufactured in the new European GlobalFoundries 12nm advanced silicon technology, a major demonstration of European technology independence.