The European PILOT project (Pilot using Independent, Local and Open Technologies) aims to showcase a fully European accelerator—designed, implemented, manufactured, and owned by Europe—based on open-source technologies and open standards. Accelerators deliver the majority of performance in modern HPC systems and are essential building blocks for future Exascale architectures.

The European PILOT project represents an ambitious integration of open-source accelerator designs—based on the RISC-V open hardware ISA—with canonical HPC and High Performance Data Analytics applications, system software, and open-source system integration. This includes advanced solutions for rack-level cooling and power delivery.

The project brings together multiple partners to leverage and expand both existing and newly developed Intellectual Property, creating reusable building blocks for future HPC systems across traditional and emerging domains.

At the core of the project is an HPC system based entirely on European technologies—from the racks and enclosures to the accelerators, CPUs, and the software stack running on top.

Politecnico di Milano participates in the PILOT project through the HEAPLab at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, involved via the CINI consortium. Politecnico’s contribution focuses on the development of tools for run-time resource management on heterogeneous architectures for high-performance computing"