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HiPEAC Vision 2024
For the seventh edition of the European-funded HiPEAC project, the source of the acronym ‘HiPEAC’ changed from ‘High Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation’ to ‘High Perfor- mance, Edge And Cloud computing’ to better reflect how computing has morphed from discrete operations into a ‘continuum of computing’. As HiPEAC has evolved, so has the HiPEAC Vision: with many domains covered by the HiPEAC community changing rapidly, the HiPEAC Vision is now issued every year, rather than every two years. This release, the tenth to date, builds on the core ideas developed in the HiPEAC Vision 2023. In particular, it provides an in-depth exploration of the ‘next computing paradigm’ (NCP), which further develops the ‘next web’ concept of the HiPEAC Vision 2023. This ‘next computing paradigm’ merges aspects of the web, the cloud, cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, digital twins, the metaverse and artificial intelligence (AI) into a coherent continuum of computing, intertwining the real world with the cyberworld. The core themes of the HiPEAC Vision 2024 centre around the dynamic and competitive landscape of technological progress, with a specific focus on this emerging ‘next computing paradigm’. This shift recognizes the rapid evolution in the fields of technology and AI, and the strategic significance that these domains will take in global geopolitics. The document also highlights the intensified competition between leading global powers in technology and AI, emphasizing the implications for Europe. It underscores the need for Europe to seize the opportunities presented by these developments while mitigating risks, such as dependencies on external platforms and resources.
In the HiPEAC Vision 2024, the ‘races’ for leadership outlined in the HiPEAC Vision 2023 are viewed through the lens of NCP. These races include AI, innovative hardware solutions, cybersecurity, sustainability, and digital sovereignty. Given the cross-cutting importance of technological autonomy for Europe, the topic of sovereignty is now woven into the text, feeding directly into the recommendations of this HiPEAC Vision. Structurally, the HiPEAC Vision 2024 retains the two-part format of previous editions: 1. A set of recommendations for the HiPEAC community at large, reflecting the shifts and new focus areas, with the NCP as the guiding topic. 2. A collection of expert articles divided into five key areas, each exploring a specific aspect of the race for technology leadership in the context of the NCP. Each of these five sections takes the position of Europe in that particular area into account. From this analysis, the recommendations are derived.
Readers are encouraged to engage both with this document, outlining the main recommendations, and with the accompanying HiPEAC Vision 2024 Rationale website, which contains the supporting articles, in order to fully understand the conclusions reached.
HiPEAC Vision 2023
Since 2009, HiPEAC has been publishing its ‘Vision’ on the future of computing systems. Drawing on the expertise of HiPEAC’s 2,000-strong European network of experts, this document acts as a strategic roadmap for the European computing community. It sets out the main technology trends and challenges in computing and explores what these will mean for research, business, and society in general. The latest edition of the HiPEAC Vision was published in January 2023. The main message conveys a sense of urgency: technology is evolving faster than humans can adapt, in a context of intensifying geopolitical and environmental pressures. This is expressed in the form of six races for technology leadership: the ‘next web’, artificial intelligence (AI), new kinds of hardware, cybersecurity, sovereignty and sustainability.
HiPEAC Vision 2021
In the thirty years since the advent of the internet, computers have changed how we live our lives. Computing systems are becoming increasingly complex and well as used in a wider range of situations and contexts; the HiPEAC Vision 2021 recommends a series of steps and measures to ensure that Europe makes the most of what computing has to offer while managing and controlling the challenges and risks.
HiPEAC Vision 2019
This is the seventh edition of the HiPEAC Vision; the first one was issued in 2008. The Vision explores the future of computing systems at a time when semiconductor scaling is reaching a halt, taking into account business, technology, society and Europe's position in the world.
HiPEAC Vision 2017
Information technology is one of the cornerstones of modern society and it is evolving rapidly: while the main challenges identified in the HiPEAC Vision 2015 remain valid and have even increased in importance, new challenges are ahead of us. Computers are disappearing from view. They are taking on new forms, such as cars, smart meters, thermostats, and so on. They communicate with their users using voice, sound, pictures and video, closely resembling human interaction. We are entering the Artificial Intelligence era. This will not only change how we interact with machines, but it will also redefine how we instruct a machine what to do: less programming and more learning. The function of the computer is shifting from carrying out computational tasks to provide answers to numerical problems, to working together with humans (what we call the beginning of the Centaur Era*), augmenting reality to assist us, or even creating virtual worlds for us to explore: the cyber-physical entanglement between the physical and virtual world.
HiPEAC Vision 2015
Information technology is one of the corner stones of modern society. It is also a key driving force of the western economy, contributing substantially to economic growth by productivity gains and the creation of new products and services. All this was made possible by the uninterrupted exponential growth in computation, communication and storage capacity of the previous decades. Unfortunately, this now seems to have come to an end. Growth is predicted to slow down due to the fundamental laws of physics, and an increasing number of people are getting worried about the adverse effects of the progressively omnipresent use of information technology: loss of privacy, the impact on the job market, security and safety. Devices will be more and more connected, entangled physically, cognitive and smart and requiring more and more computational, storage and communication resources. To ensure the further growth of information technology and to address these concerns, several key challenges need to be tackled.
HiPEAC Vision 2013
Energy has become the primary limiting factor in the development of all systems. This has led to parallel and heterogeneous devices, and the appearance of “dark silicon”. Developing energy-aware devices and automating the optimization of applications for power efficiency has become a necessity across all computing systems. The traditional computing systems market is evolving towards global-scale applications that gather data from embedded systems and users, process it in large data centers, and provide customized, timely information to millions of users through their mobile devices. Tools have not yet caught up with this evolution towards global-scale applications. Europe provides a strong embedded and low-power processor ecosystem with many companies in hardware and software development. However, Europe also suffers from a high degree of horizontal specialization, which makes it difficult for companies to amortize the costs of development across the product chain. The most successful global-scale applications are backed by global vertically-integrated companies offering a complete ecosystem.
HiPEAC Vision 2011
HiPEAC Vision 2010
HiPEAC Roadmap
One of the key deliverables of the EU HiPEAC FP6 Network of Excellence is a roadmap on high-performance embedded architecture and compilation – the HiPEAC Roadmap for short. This paper is the result of the roadmapping process that took place within the HiPEAC community and beyond. It concisely describes the key research challenges ahead of us and it will be used to steer the HiPEAC research efforts. The roadmap details several of the key challenges that need to be tack- led in the coming decade, in order to achieve scalable performance in multi-core systems, and in order to make them a practical mainstream technology for high-performance embedded systems. The HiPEAC roadmap is organized around 10 central themes: (i) sin- gle core architecture, (ii) multi-core architecture, (iii) interconnection networks, (iv) programming models and tools, (v) compilation, (vi) run- time systems, (vii) benchmarking, (viii) simulation and system modeling, (ix) reconfigurable computing, and (x) real-time systems. Per theme, a list of challenges is identified. In total 55 key challenges are listed in this roadmap. The list of challenges can serve as a valuable source of reference for researchers active in the field, it can help companies building their own R&D roadmap, and – although not intended as a tutorial document – it can even serve as an introduction to scientists and professionals in- terested in learning about high-performance embedded architecture and compilation.