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Digital Autonomy for RISC-V in Europe (Specific Grant Agreement 1)

Project description

Digital autonomy for European supercomputers and AI

The growing adoption of supercomputers and other digital innovations across sectors, from research and medicine to finance, has significantly increased reliance on specialised products for high-performance computing. However, many of these products are manufactured outside Europe, resulting in higher costs and limited accessibility for European researchers and users. The EU-funded DARE SGA 1 project aims to develop European-made products for European supercomputers in both research and industry, strengthening Europe’s digital autonomy in high-performance computing and AI. Building on the findings of previous related projects, the initiative will leverage advances in RISC-V and chiplet technologies to reduce costs and enhance product quality, thereby strengthening Europe’s leadership in high-performance computing and AI.

Objective

HPC Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in EurHPC Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe (DARE) will address Europe’s deficit in digital autonomy for High Performance Computing and AI, by creating truly European products for European supercomputers for research and industry. The project builds upon the solid research foundation from EPI, EUPILOT, EUPEX, DEEP-SEA, eProcessor, MEEP and related projects, and it takes advantage of the open RISC-V ecosystem, chiplet revolution and open-source software. It is the first phase of the ambitious 6-year plan set out in the DARE FPA proposal, and it defines clear intra- and inter-phase SMART KPIs and success criteria, on the road to European digital autonomy while supporting current and future computing needs. We will develop and tape-out, in advanced technology, three RISC-V-based chiplets: a vector accelerator for high-precision HPC and emerging applications, an AI Processing Unit inference accelerator for HPC AI applications and an HPC-focused European general-purpose processor. These chiplets bring cost and yield advantages by going beyond the reticle size limitations imposed by monolithic chips and they will be integrated in a mix-and-match fashion to build specific systems. DARE uses a carefully selected set of the most significant European HPC and AI applications to drive hardware (HW) and software (SW) activities in a HW/SW co-design scheme, in order to ensure that the project’s HW and SW results meet the requirements of the European HPC and AI communities. It will build a complete SW stack, optimized for DARE HW, that supports these cutting-edge applications. To make rapid progress, SW and HW developments proceed in parallel, leveraging early access to RISC-V hardware emulation and simulation. Finally, the project will elaborate a detailed technical roadmap and pathfinding, defining the major steps and milestones to be followed in the next phase, in order to achieve the goal of next-generation post-exascale EU supercomputers.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2024-DARE-SGA-04

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Coordinator

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION
Net EU contribution
€ 4 389 375,00
Address
CALLE JORDI GIRONA 31
08034 BARCELONA
Spain
Region
Este Cataluña Barcelona
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Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 17 557 500,00

Participants (44)