Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing

A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines. If you're having deja vu, you're not alone: Europe has been talking about and toying with using RISC-V for supercomputing for some years, even getting far as some silicon, though turned to Arm's architecture for its first exascale system. The continent hasn't given up on RISC-V, though, certainly not with America in the state it's in. The DARE project is supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS). The project aims to create three chiplets – individual chip dies that can be combined to form complete processor packages – and has already picked leaders for each effort: A vector-math accelerator die tuned for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, led by Barcelona-based chip desig ... Read full article.