European Processor Initiative

European Processor Initiative (EPI) is a European processor project to design and build a new family of European low-power processors for supercomputers, Big Data, automotive, and offering high performance on traditional high-performance computing (HPC) applications and emerging applications such as on machine learning. It is led by a consortium of European companies and universities.
The project is divided in multiple phases funded under Specific Grant Agreements. The first grant agreement was implemented under the <a href="/facts/European_Commission/Cc5JgbEI">European Commission</a> program <a href="/facts/Horizon_2020/Udy5lUQ7">Horizon 2020</a> (FPA: 800928) in the December 2018 to November 2021 time span. The second agreement will be implemented afterwards under the <a href="/facts/EuroHPC/QspFSmAl">EuroHPC</a> Joint Undertaking which issued a call, which was answered in January 2021 by the same consortium (H2020-JTI-EuroHPC-2020-02 FPA in EPI (phase II)).
The processor that is to be developed is a system on a chip (<a href="/facts/System_on_a_chip/1RVvVe6N">SoC</a>) that makes use of the <a href="/facts/Reduced_instruction_set_computer/aQbGM62p">RISC</a> technology, implements microprocessor cores of <a href="/facts/ARM_architecture/SALsYA79">ARM architecture</a> and accelerators, and specialises in <a href="/facts/Matrix_(mathematics)/qa8FI4ko">matrix calculations</a> and <a href="/facts/Deep_learning/JLuwD3ea">deep learning</a> for <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">artificial intelligence</a>. The processor is designed to be integrated in an <a href="/facts/Exascale_computing/HEb6YV2v">exascale supercomputer</a>, but also to be implemented in cars.

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European Processor Initiative