INESC-ID has recently signed a grant agreement for the CHORYS project, its first Hop-On project to be secured. The Hop-On Facility is a funding mechanism within Horizon Europe, allowing countries with research and innovation (R&I) indicators below the European average to join consortia of projects that have already been approved, specifically Pillar 2 research actions and EIC Pathfinder projects. Besides enabling participation in project activities and funding research, it also fosters the sharing of knowledge and experience among leading European institutions.

The CHORYS project aims to address the inefficiency of Central Processing Unit (CPU)-centric architectures when managing and processing massive amounts of data. To achieve this, the project will develop an open accelerator-centric cloud architecture built on building blocks that integrate RISC-V cores. This will minimise data movement through near-data processing and offload workloads through hardware-accelerated asynchronous data services.

INESC-ID will make a unique contribution to the research, having previously collaborated with consortium partners and bringing vast experience with data-stream accelerators and RISC-V processors and tools. For a duration of 34 months and with €428K in funding, the INESC-ID team, led by Nuno Neves, researcher in High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems, will augment project capabilities by enhancing storage reliability, addressing existing gaps in RISC-V performance monitoring and optimising data processing.

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