SiPearl hooks up with AMD

Author: EIS Release Date: Nov 18, 2022

SiPearl, the company designing the Europrocessor, has joined up with AMD to provide a joint offering for exascale supercomputing systems, combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor, Rhea, with AMD Instinct  accelerators.

 

Initially, AMD and SiPearl will jointly assess the interoperability of the AMD ROC open software with the SiPearl Rhea microprocessor and build an optimized software solution that would strengthen the capabilities of a SiPearl microprocessor combined with an AMD Instinct accelerator

 

This joint work targets porting and optimization activities of the AMD HIP backend, openMP compilers and libraries, will enable scientific applications to benefit from both technologies.

 

It is then envisaged that the collaboration will expand to include third party European research institutions, supporting research modelling tools.

 

This will enable key European developers and code owners to port and optimize their applications on the SiPearl/AMD solution.

 

In parallel, the companies will engage with OEMs adopting SiPearl Rhea microprocessor jointly with AMD Instinct accelerators in their designs.

 

This partnership will dramatically enlarge the choice of acceleration solutions provided with SiPearl HPC microprocessors.

 

With this collaboration, SiPearl continues its goal of offering the best combination to address the application needs of the European exascale supercomputing end-users in strategic fields such as academics, artificial intelligence, health, climate, energy, engineering, geology or government.

 

“High Performance Computing is at the heart of AMD; our AMD Instinct™ accelerators power the first supercomputer to pass the exaflop barrier and we continue to support numerous HPC installations around the world with our products,” said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president, Data Center and Accelerated Processing at AMD.

 

“We welcome this collaboration with AMD that drive innovation in the HPC market for many years,” said Philippe Notton, SiPearl’s CEO and founder.