This morning, Eviden made it official: it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany to build the modular data center to host the EuroHPC JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s first exascale system. This is not surprising because….
Vivian Blanchard Named VP Hardware R&D at SiPearl
May 4, 2023 by
Maisons-Laffitte (France), May 4, 2023 – SiPearl, the company building the high-performance low-power microprocessor for exascale supercomputers in Europe, has announced the appointment of Vivian Blanchard as vice president hardware research & development. Previously serving as head of Atos’ ASIC Research & Development Department, he joined SiPearl to support the growth of the hardware R&D […]
SiPearl and AMD in Partnership for Exascale Supercomputing in Europe
November 14, 2022 by
Maisons-Laffitte (France), 14th November 2022 – SiPearl, the HPC microprocessor designer for European supercomputers, and AMD announced a joint offering for exascale supercomputing in Europe combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor, Rhea, with AMD Instinct accelerators. The latter chip, along with AMD EPYC CPUs, power Frontier, the world’s first exascale-class system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Initially, […]
SiPearl Collaborates with NVIDIA on Accelerated Computing with European Microprocessor
May 29, 2022 by
Maisons-Laffitte, France, May 29, 2022 — SiPearl, the European company designing the microprocessor for exascale supercomputing, and NVIDIA announce a collaboration to provide a joint offering combining SiPearl HPC microprocessors with NVIDIA accelerated computing and networking portfolio. The two organizations said they will develop a proxy platform for porting activities and SVE workload analysis combining SiPearl […]
SiPearl Selects Ansys’ Power Signoff Solution for European Supercomputer Chip
March 1, 2022 by
March 01, 2022 — SiPearl today said the Ansys multiphysics platform has been selected by SiPearl, Europe’s exascale supercomputer chip project for development of its high performance computing (HPC) microprocessor family as part of the European Processor Initiative (EPI). SiPearl will use the Ansys RedHawk-SC simulation platform with the intent to validate semiconductor power integrity, minimize […]
‘Nice Win’ for Ponte Vecchio – SiPearl Picks Intel GPU for European Exascale
October 27, 2021 by
SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, today announced it will incorporate Intel’s forthcoming “Ponte Vecchio” GPU, along with Intel’s oneAPI cross-architecture programming model, in a partnership for the first European exascale supercomputers. SiPearl said the Intel partnership allows European customers “the possibility” to combine SiPearl’s HPC CPU, called Rhea, with Intel’s family of general-purpose […]
European Exascale Chip Designer SiPearl Opens 5th Center in Grenoble
September 28, 2021 by
Maisons-Laffitte (France), Sept. 28, 2021 – SiPearl, whose mission is to design a high performance, low-power microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers, has opened a design center in Grenoble, France, with the goal of recruiting 50 engineers on site by the end of 2022. Following SiPeal facilities in Maisons-Laffitte, Duisburg, Barcelona and Sophia Antipolis, SiPearl’s Grenoble […]
Jean-Marc Denis Joins SiPearl as CSO
July 7, 2021 by
Maisons-Laffitte, France, 6 July 2021 – SiPearl, the designer of the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, announced the appointment of Jean-Marc Denis as chief strategy officer. Previously, he was head of strategy, big data and security within the Atos group. Since 2018, he chaired the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium from which SiPearl was […]
Graphcore and SiPearl Form Euro Partnership to Combine AI and HPC
June 15, 2021 by
Graphcore, the British maker of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for artificial intelligence workloads, and SiPearl, the Franco-German company building an HPC chip, have entered into a strategic partnership intended to enable innovation in simulation and prediction for use cases such as meteorology, climatology, epidemiology and energy management. Under the terms of the agreement, the […]
