The European PILOT

Accelerators provide the majority of performance in modern High Performance Computing and are the building blocks for Exascale systems.

The European PILOT will be the first demonstration of two ALL European HPC and High Performance Data Analytics accelerators, designed, implemented, manufactured, and owned by Europe.

The PILOT combines open source software (SW) and open and proprietary hardware (HW) to deliver the first completely European full software, accelerator, and integrated ecosystem based on RISC-V accelerators coupled to any general purpose processor (CPU). This pilot will demonstrate key HPC and HPDA workloads and software stacks.

The accelerators will be manufactured in the new European GlobalFoundries 12 nm advanced silicon technology, a major demonstration of European technology independence.The project combines cutting edge research utilizing SW/HW co-design to demonstrate accelerators running key applications and libraries in a full software stack and tools for the emerging RISC-V ecosystem, and it is able to produce a full stack research prototype by leveraging and extending work done in multiple European projects.

This pre-production system can only be realized with a combination of existing IP, HW emulation using FPGAs, and real ASIC prototypes that demonstrate the full stack feasibility of the hardware and software.

Finally, the implementation will be the smallest technology node manufactured in Europe and can be adapted for a future HPC implementation.