MONT-BLANC

Since Mont-Blanc 1 began in 2011, its researchers had been studying computer architecture using the kind of Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) embedded in mobile phones and tablets. Having the ambition to set new HPC standards for the coming Exascale era, Mont-Blanc focused on transferring some of this technology to supercomputers. One of the Mont-Blanc project partners was the British company ARM, whose primary business has been the design of ARM processors... The team working behind Mont-Blanc 2 essentially focused on improved software. All the scientific libraries and runtime systems were converted to ARMv8 as part of the ecosystem that Mont-Blanc created. A complete development tools ecosystem was created for the likes of debugging, performance analysis, performance prediction, and automated kernel optimisation... The Mont-Blanc Project: Paving the way towards a modular, power-efficient processor for HPC. Explore the four phases through the initiative's realization.

Also known as: Mont-Blanc Project