https://docs.hpc.gwdg.de/services/ftp/esperanto/index.htmlIntroduction The ET-SoC-1 (ET) is an experimental “manycore” chip originally developed by Esperanto Technologies for applications in HPC and AI. In 2025, Ainekko has acquired the IP and plans to open-source the platform. The design leverages over 1000 RISC-V “ET-Minion” processing cores on a single chip for massive parallelization of workloads. Each core contains a vector processing unit (VPU) as well as a tensor unit (TU) specifically optimized for machine learning operations. A network-on-chip (NoC) interconnects the “ET-Minion” cores and 32 GB of distributed, energy-efficient LPDDR4X RAM allow for high throughput in a power envelope of around 40 W per card. Each card is connected to the system via a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. On the FTP, we currently host 4 compute nodes equipped with 8 ET-SoC-1 cards each, which are available for researchers and developers especially to evaluate AI deployment on the edge and energy-efficient small language models.Hugode-de