Vision & Impact

Independence

DARE explores new paths toward greater European autonomy in HPC and AI by advancing open technologies and fostering homegrown innovation. The project aims to reduce strategic dependencies and strengthen Europe’s ability to shape its digital future.

Impact

DARE’s technologies will power future European supercomputers, enabling breakthroughs in science, industry, and AI. By strengthening Europe’s HPC supply chain and IP portfolio, DARE creates long-term economic, technological, and societal benefits across critical sectors.

Objectives

DARE sets out to lay the technological foundations for European digital autonomy in HPC and AI. By combining open RISC-V architectures, chiplet technologies, and a co-designed software ecosystem, DARE aims to deliver working prototypes, shape the EU HPC roadmap, and boost Europe’s ability to build and sustain its own supercomputing value chain.

Technology development

  • Develop a prototype and related IPs, based on the open RISC-V instruction set and chiplet technologies.
  • Develop and integrate a complete, optimised, competitive and sustainable HPC/AI software stack for the DARE hardware.
  • Integrate chiplets in a mix-and-match fashion to build prototypes running critical HPC applications.

Co-Design and Application Readiness

  • Develop a co-designed ecosystem of HPC/AI RISC-V components ready for pre-production prototype deployment.
  • Analyse and port seven critical European HPC and AI applications used for HW/SW co-design.

Strategic Impact and European Autonomy

  • Elaborate a roadmap defining the major steps and milestones to build next-generation, post-Exascale EU supercomputers.
  • Jump-start EU supercomputer supply and value chain development and validation.