RISER is set to revolutionize Europe’s cloud ecosystem by developing the first fully European RISC-V cloud server infrastructure. This initiative focuses on validating cloud-centric platforms built on open standards— particularly RISC-V—and open-source system software, ensuring seamless integration with standardized management and monitoring frameworks.

BSC plays a key role in deploying RISER technology, spearheading use case development and performance evaluation across three critical domains:

• Accelerating memory-intensive cloud workloads
• Optimizing networked object storage
• Enhancing containerized execution environments

Evaluation strategies include micro-benchmarks and industrystandard cloud benchmarking suites to ensure real-world applicability.
In particular, BSC leads the accelerator use case, leveraging advanced offloading techniques to optimize memory-intensive tasks such as data compression, media processing, analytics, and AI model training/ inference. By utilizing OpenMP 5.0’s hierarchical parallelism and multidevice accelerator support, RISER efficiently distributes workloads across multiple PCIe cards, unlocking new levels of performance and efficiency for European cloud infrastructure.