SiPearl, the com­pa­ny desig­ning the high-per­for­mance, low-power micro­pro­ces­sor for Euro­pean super­com­pu­ters, is col­la­bo­ra­ting with AMD to address the needs of exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ting in Euro­pe. Com­bi­ning SiPearl’s Rhea micro­pro­ces­sor with AMD Instinct™ acce­le­ra­tors, the two com­pa­nies will help Euro­pe to meet stra­te­gic, sci­en­ti­fic, socie­tal, and indus­tri­al challenges.

Mai­sons-Laf­fit­te (France), 14th Novem­ber 2022 – SiPearl, the com­pa­ny desig­ning the high­per­for­mance, low-power micro­pro­ces­sor for Euro­pean super­com­pu­ters, has ente­red into a busi­ness col­la­bo­ra­ti­on agree­ment with AMD 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 opti­mi­zed soft­ware solu­ti­on that would streng­then the capa­bi­li­ties of a SiPearl micro­pro­ces­sor com­bi­ned with an AMD InstinctTM acce­le­ra­tor. This joint work tar­gets port­ing and opti­miza­ti­on acti­vi­ties of the AMD HIP backend, openMP com­pi­lers and libra­ri­es, 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 opti­mi­ze 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 will dra­ma­ti­cal­ly enlar­ge the choice of acce­le­ra­ti­on solu­ti­ons pro­vi­ded with SiPearl HPC micro­pro­ces­sors. With this col­la­bo­ra­ti­on, SiPearl con­ti­nues its goal of offe­ring the best com­bi­na­ti­on to address the appli­ca­ti­on needs of the Euro­pean exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ting end-users in stra­te­gic fields such as aca­de­mics, arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence, health, cli­ma­te, ener­gy, engi­nee­ring, geo­lo­gy or government.

“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, AMD is deligh­ted to enga­ge one step fur­ther in the Euro­pean Eco­sys­tem with SiPearl to joint­ly offer a clear path to meet exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ting demands in Europe.”

“As the Euro­pean lea­der in HPC, we are exci­ted about this col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween SiPearl and AMD. It will con­tri­bu­te great­ly to the deploy­ment of the HPC eco­sys­tem in Euro­pe, hel­ping our cus­to­mers to deploy AI and Exas­ca­le sys­tems,” said Emma­nu­el le Roux, Glo­bal SVP, Head of HPC AI & Quan­tum, Atos.”

“We wel­co­me this col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD that dri­ve inno­va­ti­on in the HPC mar­ket for many years. This new col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with a glo­bal lea­der will fur­ther enrich our joint offe­ring of our HPC micro­pro­ces­sor com­bi­ned with part­ner acce­le­ra­ti­on solu­ti­ons. 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.

About… SiPearl
SiPearl is desig­ning the high-per­for­mance, low-power micro­pro­ces­sor for Euro­pean exas­ca­le super­com­pu­ters. This new gene­ra­ti­on of micro­pro­ces­sors will enable Euro­pe to set out its tech­no­lo­gi­cal sove­reig­n­ty in stra­te­gic high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) mar­kets such as arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence, medi­cal rese­arch or cli­ma­te modelling.
The com­pa­ny is working in clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with its 27 part­ners from the Euro­pean Pro­ces­sor Initia­ti­ve (EPI) con­sor­ti­um — lea­ding names from the sci­en­ti­fic com­mu­ni­ty, super­com­pu­ting cen­tres and indus­try — which are its stake­hol­ders, future cli­ents and end-users.

SiPearl employs more than 100 peo­p­le in France (Mai­sons-Laf­fit­te, Gre­no­ble, Mas­sy, Sophia Anti­po­lis), Germany
(Duis­burg) and Spain (Bar­ce­lo­na).