European Processor Initiative (SGA2)

Digital sovereignty has become a key requirement for the EU, which is now striving to move from a simple user of ICT technologies to a main player on the digital market.

Also, the EuroHPC JU has the overall goal to deploy in Europe world-class exascale supercomputers and turn Europe into a world leader in high performance computing (HPC1).

The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has a key mission in this strategy: enable the emergence of a European source for the needed high-performance processors and accelerators and secure EU access to the needed HPC technologies.

The EPI consortium is currently (EPISGA1) designing, building, and validating the first generation of European HPC processor and accelerator technologies.

The present EPISGA2 proposal builds on top of EPISGA1, enabling European digital sovereignty with an increased focus on processor technologies based on ARM ISA and HPC accelerator technologies based on open-source hardware (RISC-V ISA), validating the first-generation processor. SGA2 also seeks to expand the scope of the project into adjacent European and global vertical markets.