OPEN AND PROGRAMMABLE ACCELERATORS FOR DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS IN THE CLOUD

• Forschungsstelle: SBFI
• Projektnummer: 25.00108

Abstract (Englisch)

CHORYS directly prioritises support for data-intensive applications in the context of the European Open Computing Architecture by developing and demonstrating open and programmable accelerators. Through CHORYS, we will demonstrate that European cloud providers and their customers can leverage open accelerators for near-data processing and asynchronous data services to improve the performance, energy-efficiency, and cost of data-intensive applications. This overall goal is aligned with the expected impact of the topic destination as CHORYS will contribute to the next steps of development and adoption of Open technologies. More specifically, we expect that CHORYS will contribute to Europe taking a leadership position in RISC-V based accelerators, with a workforce highly skilled in hardware/ software co-design. The consortium is uniquely positioned to take up this challenge. Codasip, Europe’s leading RISCV company with billions of chips shipped, will commercialize RISC-V IP licenses and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software subscriptions, demonstrated in the projects’ open accelerators. Menta, the pioneer embedded FPGA (eFPGA) company, which is part of the European Processor Initiative, will contribute to the development of a European programmable storage controller. Cyso will extend the CHORYS demonstrators to deploy open and programmable accelerators in their high-performance public cloud platform, resulting in orders of magnitude net cost savings. The universities partners have track records of successful collaborations with recently published breakthrough results on hardware-software co-design, near-data processing, and asynchronous data services.