Open Challenges for a Production-ready Cloud Environment on top of RISC-V hardware

2025/05/05 by Aaron Call, Call, Aaron, Ramón Nou +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Digital Transformation in Industry #Distributed #Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hardware Architecture (cs.AR) #Interconnection Networks and Systems #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.02650

openalex publication_date 2025/05/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

As part of the Vitamin-V European project, we have built a prototype of a RISC-V cluster managed by OpenStack, with the goal of realizing a functional RISC-V cloud ecosystem. In this poster we explain the hardware and software challenges encountered while porting some elements of OpenStack. We also discuss the current performance gaps that challenge a performance-ready cloud environment over such new ISA, an essential element to fulfill in order to achieve european technological sovereignty.

Citations

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