CompContinuum: Computing Continuum of Cloud, Edge and IoT Technologies

Workshop: 14:00-17:30, January 19th, 2024 (HiPEAC 2024)

The computing landscape is changing rapidly as complex workloads that combine traditional simulations with large-scale data analytics and machine learning are becoming increasingly common. These workloads aim to apply large-scale and distributed computing to domains with high societal impact, such as autonomous vehicles and smart cities. The computing continuum of cloud, HPC, edge, and IoT technologies provides diverse capabilities and an ecosystem, including scalability, cost-effectiveness, high-performance processing, and energy efficiency. By combining these technologies efficiently, organizations can optimize their computing infrastructure to meet various requirements, foster innovation, and gain a competitive position in today’s digital landscape.

Workshop schedule

14:00 Welcome and presentation of the workshop

14:10 NebulOuS – META OPERATING SYSTEM FOR BROKERING HYPER-DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING CONTINUUMS

NebulOus will develop a novel Meta Operating System and platform for enabling transient fog brokerage ecosystems that seamlessly exploit edge and fog nodes, in conjunction with multi-cloud resources, to cope with the requirements posed by low latency applications. The NebulOuS project will also allow selected teams to get to know its meta-os stack. Up to 9 teams will be invited through Open Calls to test components of NebulOuS by providing a use-case where an IoT to Edge to Cloud infrastructure is needed. NebulOus website

14:25 AERO: OPEN SOURCE CLOUD SOFTWARE STACK ON ACCELERATED EU-PROCESSOR PLATFORMS

In this talk, we will present the AERO Horizon Europe (Accelerated EU Cloud) whose mission is to bring up and optimize the software stack of cloud deployments on top of the processor designs and accelerators derived from the European Processor Initiative. After providing an overview of the AERO project, we will expand on two main components of the software stack to enable seamless acceleration of various programming languages on RISC-V architectures; namely, the oneAPI construction kit (from Codeplay) which enables the generation of RISC-V vector instructions from SPIR-V binary modules, and TornadoVM (from University of Manchester) which enables transparent hardware acceleration of managed applications. Finally, we will describe how the ongoing integration of those two open-source frameworks will enable a plethora of applications from managed languages to harness RISC-V auto-vectorization completely transparently to developers. AERO website

14:40 OpenCUBE: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN PRE-PRODUCTION CLOUD PLATFORM

OpenCUBE brings together six partners from industry and academia to develop, implement, and validate an open-source software stack for a Cloud computing blueprint deployed on EPI hardware. The OpenCUBE blueprint will be deployed on European hardware infrastructure with heterogeneous compute nodes equipped with SiPearl Rhea processors and Semidynamics RISC-V accelerator. The OpenCUBE project aims to support consumer and industrial cloud workloads and enable emerging workflows on the cloud and HPC computing continuum. OpenCUBE website

14:55 RISER: TOWARDS CLOUD SERVICES RUNNING ON RISC-V PLATFORMS. BABY STEPS LEADING US FAR.

RISER is a 2023-2025 Horizon Europe project with the main goal of creating open-source designs for standardized form-factor system platforms, suitable for supporting cloud services. RISER brings together 7 partners from industry and academia to develop and validate open hardware high-speed interfaces combined with a fully-featured operating system environment and collection of software components, enabling the development of use cases such as computational load acceleration, networked storage, and containerised execution. Riser website

15:10 Vitamin-V: PUSHING FOR A TRUSTWORTHY RISC-V BASED CLOUD STACK

Vitamin-V is a 2023-2025 Horizon Europe project with the main goal of providing a RISC-V based cloud software stack for classic clouds (VMs), Modern Clouds (Containers) and future clouds (Serverless). Vitamin-V will also develop the needed hardware support as well as tools for validation, verification and correctness of RISC-V software. Vitamin-V website

15:25 Break

15:55 EXTRACT: A distributed data-mining software platform for extreme data across the compute continuum

EXTRACT aims to deliver a data-driven open-source software platform integrating the most relevant technologies, to facilitate the development of trustworthy, accurate, fair and green data mining workflows able to generate high-quality actionable knowledge. Moreover, multiple computing technologies, from edge to cloud to HPC, will be integrated into a unified and secure compute continuum. Specifically, the platform will feature enhanced data infrastructures and AI & big-data frameworks, novel data-driven orchestration and distributed monitoring mechanisms, a unified continuum abstraction and cybersecurity and digital privacy across all software layers. EXTRACT website

16:10 SYCLOPS: Scaling extreme analytics with Cross-architecture acceleration based on Open Standards

In this talk, we will introduce the Horizon Europe project SYCLOPS. The vision of SYCLOPS is to enable better solutions for AI/data mining for extremely large and diverse data by democratizing AI acceleration using open standards and enabling a healthy, competitive, innovation-driven ecosystem for Europe and beyond. This vision relies on the convergence of two important trends in the industry: (i) the standardization and adoption of RISC-V, a free, open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), for AI and analytics acceleration, and (ii) the emergence and growth of SYCL as a cross-vendor, cross-architecture, data parallel programming model for all types of accelerators, including RISC-V. SYCLOPS website

16:25 End