SiPearl Launches Seine Reference Server

SiPearl, a company building high-performance energy-efficient processors for HPC and AI workloads, is introducing Seine Reference Server, its modular reference server solution.

Multifunctional, flexible and versatile solution
Designed to host Rhea1, Seine Reference Server is a multifunctional, flexible and versatile solution for various uses cases:

• Validation and testing, a key step in the development of a high-performance energy-efficient processor for internal testing, silicon characterization, software development, porting and integration.
• Reference design supporting SiPearl direct customers to lower their design costs and speed Time-To-Market.
• Demonstrations for partners, customers and end-users.

The Seine Reference Server is available in 2 configurations: a single Rhea1 processor connecting to up to 2 GPUs in a single chassis, or as a dual socket Rhea1. Each configuration supports up to 2 SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) disks and up to 2 PCIe NICs. It is suitable for a wide range of applications such as: molecular simulation, defense, energy, AI inference, weather forecast, computational fluid dynamics, materials science, astrophysics simulation, chemistry, etc. This modular solution is conceived by SiPearl’s System and Board Design team based in Grenoble and Massy (France).

At heart of Aero, OpenCUBE, Riser and Plasma-PEPSC collaborative projects
Today, the Seine Reference Server is used in 4 European collaborative projects addressing the future of Europe’s technological sovereignty, independence and competitiveness:

• The Aero, OpenCUBE, and Riser projects aim to promote the emergence of a sovereign European cloud, whether in terms of infrastructures and hardware for Aero and Riser or in terms of software for OPenCUBE.
• The Plasma-PEPSC project uses the Seine Reference Server to make plasma simulations applications ready for the upcoming European exascale supercomputers.

In all of these projects funded by the European Union, SiPearl is a key stakeholder among universities, research institutes, supercomputing centres, start-ups and large corporations.

“Launched by EuroHPC, the European Processor Initiative aims at delivering European sovereign solutions for high performance computing and federating an ecosystem gathering key players from the whole supply chain. It irrigates several European projects gathering scientific and industrial applications and user communities such as OpenCUBE, Aero, Riser and Plasma-PEPSC. In those projects, scientists specialized in aeronautics, mechanics, meteorological simulation, or plasma sciences benefit from SiPearl Seine Reference Server to port, exercise and optimize their code on our processor Rhea1 toward future European HPC deployment”, concluded Anna Riverola, group international development and research program.