Manolis Marazakis
Dr. Manolis Marazakis (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece - 2000) is a Principal Staff Research Scientist at the Institute of Computer science, FORTH. His research interests are in architectures and efficient systems software, mainly resource management and storage I/O middleware, for high-performance servers in data center environments. He has contributed to the design, implementation and performance analysis of several system prototypes for HPC, data analytics, multi-tenant workloads, and the convergence of HPC and Cloud infrastructures. He has been FORTH’s technical lead for system software and performance evaluation for European digital sovereignty-focused research and innovation projects, for both HPC and Cloud infrastructure technologies. He is a Senior Member of ACM (since 2018) and IEEE (since 2021), and a Member of the USENIX Technical Society.
Session
This extended abstract reports on the experiences and roadmap of the RISER project, which since January 2023 has been developing first-generation all-European RISC-V cloud server and accelerator prototypes capable of running fully-featured Linux-based software stacks. Building on processor IP from the EPI and EUPILOT projects, RISER targets Europe's open strategic autonomy in cloud infrastructure. We present the RISER Microserver Platform, an FPGA-assisted prototype that integrates the EPAC1.5 RISC-V vector-processor test-chip in a standalone computing node with its own boot firmware, NVMe storage, and 100 Gbps Ethernet connectivity, and discuss the integration challenges encountered during bring-up