Barcelona Zettascale Lab’s Participation at the UCL-Huawei Joint Lab Workshop on AI Datacenters

UCL-Huawei Joint Lab Workshop: Inter- and Intra-Datacenters for AI Training and Inference. Held on June 4, 2025, at Friends House, London, brought together international experts to discuss challenges and advancements in datacenter infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence training and inference.

Dr. Miquel Moreto from BSC and BZL Presents Advances in HPC Architectures for AI

We are proud to highlight the contribution of Dr. Miquel Moreto, Director of the High Performance Computer Architecture research area at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Dr. Moreto, a central figure in advancing European supercomputing technology and a cornerstone for BZL, delivered a talk titled “Designing HPC Architectures to Accelerate AI at BSC”.

In his presentation, Dr. Moreto provided an overview of BSC’s achievements in developing High Performance Computing (HPC) designs based on domestic technology, aligning with BZL’s mission for European technological independence. He emphasized efforts to accelerate AI workloads with both official and custom RISC-V ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) extensions. It is important to note that while Dr. Moreto has led previous initiatives such as Lagarto, the BZL project represents the next level of commitment to the RISC-V architecture for zettascale systems.

This participation underscores the Barcelona Zettascale Lab’s commitment to innovation, energy efficiency, and sustainability in the development of the next generation of high-tech RISC-V based chips. The work of Dr. Moreto and BSC is fundamental to positioning Europe at the forefront of zettascale computing and AI, fostering technological autonomy and both academic and industrial impact.