MEEP Project: A Flexible System Supporting Next Generation European Open Source Software and Hardware

By Tiera Oliver

Assistant Managing Editor

Embedded Computing Design

April 14, 2020

News

MEEP Project: A Flexible System Supporting Next Generation European Open Source Software and Hardware

MEEP supports the goal of the European Union program EuroHPC to create competitive European technology integrated into future exascale supercomputers.

Launched by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), the European project "MareNostrum Experimental Exascale Platform," (MEEP) supports the goal of the European Union program EuroHPC to create competitive European technology integrated into future exascale supercomputers.

The European funded project MEEP brings together three European Union (EU) partners: as coordinator, BSC (Spain) will provide software and hardware, UNIZG-FER (Croatia) will contribute with its expertise in architecture and building and deploying FPGA-based systems, and TÜB?TAK BILGEM (Turkey) will contribute expertise in verification, architecture, and advanced logic design.

Using an emulation platform based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), MEEP will provide a testbed for RISC-V-based infrastructure, as well as building the initial software ecosystem to support this. MEEP's software development will translate into a proof-of-concept for industrial usage, enabling next-generation exploration of computer architecture as well as software development of existing and future HPC applications.

It aims to develop an exploratory supercomputing infrastructure for the development, integration, testing, and co-design of a wide range of European technologies which could form part of future European exascale systems, based on European-developed intellectual property (IP). 

The ultimate goal is to create an open full-stack (software and hardware) ecosystem that could form the foundation for many other European systems, both in high-performance computing (HPC) and embedded computing.

For more information, visit: https://meep-project.eu/

Tiera Oliver is the assistant managing editor at Embedded Computing Design. She is responsible for web content editing, product news, and story development. She also manages, edits, and develops content for ECD podcasts, including Embedded Insiders.

She utilizes her expertise in journalism and content management to oversee editorial content, coordinate with editors, and ensure high-quality output across web, print, and multimedia platforms. She manages diverse projects, assists in the production of digital magazines, and hosts company podcasts by conducting in-depth interviews with industry leaders to deliver engaging and insightful discussions.

Tiera attended Northern Arizona University, where she received her bachelor's in journalism and political science. She was also a news reporter for the student-led newspaper, The Lumberjack. 

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