The HiPEAC 2025 conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general-purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. Areas of focus and integration include safety-critical dependencies, cybersecurity, energy efficiency and machine learning.
This year, the HiPEAC conference will take place in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain from the 20-23 of January.. Associated workshops, tutorials, special sessions, several large poster session and an industrial exhibition will run in parallel with the conference.
Sessions featuring the HIGHER project include:
EU projects’ poster session
Ground Floor | Wed, January 22nd | 10:00 – 17:30
Spotlight on the latest breakthroughs in European-funded research. With lunch and coffee breaks located in the poster display area, as well as the welcome drinks reception.
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CompContinuum: Computing Continuum of Cloud, Edge, and IoT Technologies workshop (co-organization)
Room 8 | Wed, January 22nd | 10:00 – 13:00
The 2nd Workshop on Computing Continuum (CompContinuum’25) will provide the community with a dedicated venue for discussing fundamental challenges and research opportunities, deployment efforts, state-of-the-art and best practices in supporting efficient combinations of Cloud, Edge, HPC, and IoT technologies in a computing continuum setting. The half-day workshop aims to foster discussion of the following topics:
- What changes and optimizations to hardware and system architecture are critical for enabling the computing continuum?
- What changes to the software stack, including drivers, operating systems, middleware, and system software, are needed?
- What is critical for enabling a computing continuum’s power and energy efficiency, while contributing to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal?
- What workloads can leverage the heterogeneity, elasticity, and dynamic resource provisioning from the computing continuum?
Manolis Marazakis, principal staff research scientist at the Institute of Computer science, FORTH (Greece), and coordinator of the HIGHER project and sibling project RISER, will present the following session:
12:30 : “Towards RISC-V systems for Cloud Services: Experiences and Perspective from the RISER and HIGHER projects”
Abstract: Can we design and build data-center system platforms based on open standards in Europe today? This talk will outline the experiences and roadmap of two ongoing research and innovation projectsthat have taken up this challenge. RISER (started in Jan’23) is progressing towards a first-generation of all-European RISC-V cloud accelerator and cloud server stand-alone prototypes, operating with fully-featured operating systems and runtimes. HIGHER project (started in Jan’25) follows the Open Compute Project (OCP) Server family of standards to build processor modules for computation and acceleration, alongside a system security/control module. The combined effort in the two projects aims to build modular rack-scale systems, incorporating reusable standards-based infrastructure that encompasses hardware, low-level firmware, and systems software, while ensuring trustworthy functionality for managing, securing, and controlling servers.
Click here more information regarding the CompContinuum workshop.