Description
Formed in September of 2024, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) NET4EXA research and innovation project, funded for €71 million through 2027, aims to develop and deploy innovative interconnect technologies for exascale and post-exascale infrastructures. The project is coordinated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), with participants including two vendors, Eviden and Numascale, as well as academic and government user sites and will build upon two previous generations of the Eviden BullSequana eXascale Interconnect (BXI). Goals of the project include:
- Deliver greater efficiency, capacity, and adaptability for future supercomputing requirements
- Deploy a BXIv3-based pilot system for integration into exascale and post-exascale infrastructures
- Address high-bandwidth, low-latency communication, and efficient CPU/GPU integration challenges
- Identify a roadmap to BXIv4 to further enhance system performance and energy usage for AI and HPC
