Research Projects

A €240M large-scale European Supercomputing project with 38 partners developing prototype HPC and AI systems based on EU-designed industry-standard chiplets. BSC leads this 3-year initiative to create a complete supercomputing compute stack with high-performance, energy-efficient processors designed in Europe. DARE is the first phase of a 6+ year HPC-specific European Framework Partnership Agreement program.

BSC leads the Barcelona Zettascale Laboratory to enhance Europe's capacity in designing high-performance computing chips based on RISC-V technology. The laboratory develops advanced processor prototypes for future European supercomputers, reducing dependence on third-party hardware and supporting open-source architecture development. Funded by the PERTE microelectronics program under NextGenerationEU, BZL collaborates with national and European partners to strengthen technological sovereignty.

The project aims to deliver a high-performance, low-power processor, implementing vector instructions and specific accelerators with high bandwidth memory access. Our contributions target memory system performance benchmarking and specification of resilience features for the EPI processors and accelerators.

The main objective is to spearhead a Europe-wide discussion on HPC system resilience. We bring together experts from computing systems technologies, to further research in HPC resilience and foster exchanges across the diverse communities affected by resilience concerns.