SiPearl is designing high-performance and low-power microprocessors for European supercomputers and this partnership will offer European customers the possibility to combine SiPearl’s high-performance and low-power CPU Rhea with Intel’s family of general-purpose GPU Ponte Vecchio making a high-performance compute node capable of supporting European exascale deployment.
To enable this, SiPearl plans to port and optimise oneAPI for the Rhea processor. As an open, standards-based programming model oneAPI will help to improve developer productivity and workload performance by providing a single programming solution across the heterogenous compute node.
The paired solution will also help to underline the value of CXL standardization in connecting compute elements, providing lower latency, coherent connectivity relative to PCIe connections.
"We welcome this collaboration with Intel, whose GPU Ponte Vecchio, optimised for HPC workloads, is a great engineering innovation. A solution incorporating our European HPC CPU Rhea with the Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU under the unified programming model oneAPI allows us to rapidly develop heterogenous nodes to meet the needs of European exascale supercomputing", said Philippe Notton, SiPearl’s CEO and founder.
"We are pleased that Ponte Vecchio, based on the Intel Xe HPC architecture, has been selected by SiPearl as their HPC accelerator to deliver Europe’s first exascale supercomputers. We see great potential in our work with SiPearl as we execute on our IDM 2.0 strategy to bring leading-edge technologies to our European partners", said Jeff McVeigh, Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Super Compute Group.
