Enabling an OpenStack-based cloud on top of RISC-V hardware

2024/06/17 by Diego Marrón, Marrón, Diego, Aaron Call +5
Computer Science · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.12008

openalex publication_date 2024/06/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The European Union's technological sovereignty strategy centers around the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture, with the European Processor Initiative leading efforts to build production-ready processors. Focusing on realizing a functional RISC-V cloud ecosystem, the Vitamin-V European project developed an OpenStack cluster utilizing genuine hardware. In this poster, we detail the efforts done in porting and setting up the cluster and the many software services required by OpenStack to properly run on real hardware. In this poster, we detail our efforts on building an minimal viable prototype OpenStack cluster using real hardware. The cluster is almost functional, and we expect it to be complete in the next few months.

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