The agreement looks to provide a joint offering for exascale supercomputing systems, combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor, Rhea, with AMD Instinct accelerators.
Initially, AMD and SiPearl will jointly assess the interoperability of the AMD ROCm open software with the SiPearl Rhea microprocessor and build an optimised software solution that would strengthen the capabilities of a SiPearl microprocessor combined with an AMD Instinct accelerator. This joint work will look to target porting and optimisation activities of the AMD HIP backend, openMP compilers and libraries, and will enable scientific applications to benefit from both technologies.
It is then envisaged that the collaboration will expand to include third party European research institutions, supporting research modelling tools. This will enable key European developers and code owners to port and optimise their applications on the SiPearl/AMD solution. In parallel, the companies will engage with OEMs adopting SiPearl Rhea microprocessor jointly with AMD Instinct accelerators in their designs.
This partnership is seen as helping to dramatically enlarge the choice of acceleration solutions provided with SiPearl HPC microprocessors.
“High Performance Computing is at the heart of AMD; our AMD Instinct accelerators power the first supercomputer to pass the exaflop barrier and we continue to support numerous HPC installations around the world with our products,” said Brad McCredie, corporate vice president, Data Center and Accelerated Processing at AMD. “As the world continues to need more compute performance to drive the next discoveries that will change our society.”
“As the European leader in HPC, we are excited about this collaboration. It will contribute greatly to the deployment of the HPC ecosystem in Europe, helping our customers to deploy AI and Exascale systems,” added Emmanuel le Roux, Global SVP, Head of HPC AI & Quantum, Atos.
“Providing a broader choice for European supercomputers end-users, it will enable Europe to tackle the great challenges of our time such as artificial intelligence, climate modelling and medical research”, said Philippe Notton, SiPearl’s CEO and founder.
