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SiPearl works with AMD on GPU support for ARM HPC chip

Chip designer SiPearl is working with AMD on software support to enable supercomputing systems that pair SiPearl's high-performance Rhea processor with AMD's Instinct GPU accelerators. SiPearl is the company involved with the European Processor Initiative (EPI) to develop an Arm-based processor for an exascale supercomputer designed and built in Europe, slated for 2023. This latest agreement sees the company enter a business collaboration with AMD towards a joint offering for exascale supercomputing systems using their respective technologies. AMD and SiPearl said they will start by working on the interoperability of AMD's ROCm software stack for developing GPU accelerated applications with SiPearl's Rhea microprocessor. The aim is to ensure that a software ecosystem is in place ready for such applications to run on any future supercomputer based on SiPearl CPUs combined with AMD Instinct GPUs.

This joint work will focus on porting and optimization of AMD's Heterogeneous Interface for Portability (HIP), created to let developers write portable code to target both AMD and Nvidia GPUs, the duo said. Beyond this, AMD and SiPearl said they'll "engage with OEMs adopting the Rhea microprocessor with AMD Instinct accelerators in their designs," which simply means they will work with any hardware company considering using this combination of silicon to build an actual HPC system. The two companies also said they hope to expand the joint work to include European research institutions supporting research modeling tools, which would enable developers to port and optimize their applications for any system using a SiPearl/AMD solution.

Izvor: The Register

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