Barcelona / Tokyo, 14 of November 2024 –Openchip, NEC and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center are studying collaboration to develop the new Openchip Vector Computing Accelerator for use in supercomputing data centers. This collaboration shall mark a significant milestone in the global supercomputing industry.
Openchip is a Spanish silicon engineering company that has received a grant and has been funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU supported by the European Union and the Spanish government under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The company’s mission is to develop System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions based on RISC-V architecture, integrated with artificial intelligence accelerator chiplets.
These processors will optimize computing workloads to accelerate scientific research in areas such as genomic computing, personalized medicine, weather forecasting, engineering simulations, protein design for new medicines and vaccines, astrophysics, and more. The Vector Computing Processors will benefit from the design expertise of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, along with NEC’s more than three decades of leadership in supercomputing architectures, including their renowned SX Series line of vector supercomputers.