Vitamin-V

Vitamin-V

Virtual Environment and Tool-boxing for Trustworthy Development of RISC-V based Cloud Services

Full project details (EU Research results portal): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101093062

Project description:

Vitamin-V aims to develop a complete RISC-V open-source software stack for cloud services with iso-performance to the cloud-dominant x86 counterpart and a powerful virtual execution environment for software development, validation, verification, and test that considers the relevant RISC-V ISA extensions for cloud deployment.Specifically, commercial cloud systems make use of hardware features that are currently unavailable in RISC-V virtual environments (not to mention the lack of specific RISC-V hardware). These features include the virtualization, cryptography and vectorization for which Vitamin-V will add support in three virtual environments: QEMU, gem5 and cloud-FPGA prototype platforms. Vitamin-V focuses and will provide support for EPI-based RISC-V designs for both the main CPUs and cloud-important accelerators (for memory compression). We will add the compiler (LLVM-based) and toolchain support for the ISA extensions. Moreover, novel approaches for the validation, verification, and test of software trustworthiness will be developed considering.Vitamin-V will port and evaluate several cutting-edge VMMs and container suites (i.e. VOSySmonitor, KVM, QEMU, Docker, RustVMM, Kata containers), cloud management software (i.e., OpenStack, and Kubernetes) together with their software and libraries dependencies (e.g. JVM, Python); and AI (i.e Tensorflow) and BigData applications (Apache Spark). These software suites are representative of the three cloud setups that will be demonstrated: classical (OpenStack), modern (Kubernetes), and serverless (RustVMM, Kata, Kubernetes). The cloud setups will be benchmarked against relevant AI (i.e., Google Net, ResBet, VGG19), BigData (TPC-DS), and Serverless applications (FunctionBench, ServerlessBench). Vitamin-V aims to match the software performance of its x86 equivalent while contributing to RISC-V open-source virtual environments, software validation and cloud software suites.

EuroVoc IDs: /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/computer security/cryptography

EU Programme: Horizon Europe

EU Project

Project publications:

EU Project	Has Title	Has Category	Has Type	Has Year	Has DOI
Vitamin-V	Fast, Accurate and Distributed Simulation of novel HPC systems incorporating ARM and RISC-V CPUs	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2024	https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.12594262
Vitamin-V	Challenges and Opportunities for RISC-V Architectures towards Genomics-basedWorkloads	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Book chapters	2023	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40843-4 34
Vitamin-V	Runtime Energy Monitoring for RISC-V Soft-Cores	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Book chapters	2025	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96099-4 27
Vitamin-V	Silent Data Errors: Sources, Detection, and Modeling	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTS56346.2023.10139970
Vitamin-V	Enabling Syscall Intercept for RISC-V	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2025	https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2505.10217
Vitamin-V	Veritas Demystifying Silent Data Corruptions: ?Arch-Level Modeling and Fleet Data of Modern x86 CPUs	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA61900.2025.00012
Vitamin-V	vACE: Exploring the Design Space of Vector Processing Units for Soft Error Vulnerability	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/IISWC66894.2025.00023
Vitamin-V	Vitamin-V: Expanding Open-Source RISC-V Cloud Environments	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2024	https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2407.00052
Vitamin-V	VITAMIN-V: Virtual Environment and Tool-boxing for Trustworthy Development of RISC-V based Cloud Services	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2023	https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2305.10982
Vitamin-V	Silent Data Corruptions: The Stealthy Saboteurs of Digital Integrity	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS59296.2023.10224870
Vitamin-V	Validation, Verification, and Testing (VVT) of future RISC-V powered cloud infrastructures: the VITAMIN-V Horizon Europe Project perspective	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/ets56758.2023.10174216
Vitamin-V	Benchmarking Support for RISC-V CPUs in Serverless Computing	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/IISWC66894.2025.00050
Vitamin-V	NAVIgator: Exploring the Voltage Limits of AMD NAVI GPUs for Energy Efficient Computing	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2025	https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS65288.2025.11117086
Vitamin-V	Special Session: Security and RAS in the Computing Continuum	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2024	https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT63277.2024.10753548
Vitamin-V	Hypervisor Extension for a RISC-V Processor	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2023	https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2406.17796
Vitamin-V	A survey on hardware-based malware detection approaches	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Peer reviewed articles	2024	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3388716
Vitamin-V	A Differential Privacy protection-based federated deep learning framework to fog-embedded architectures	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Peer reviewed articles	2024	https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENGAPPAI.2023.107689
Vitamin-V	Federated transfer learning-based intrusion detection system in 5G networks	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Peer reviewed articles	2026	https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ESWA.2025.130868
Vitamin-V	From Gates to SDCs: Understanding Fault Propagation Through the Compute Stack	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2025	https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10992727
Vitamin-V	VITAMIN-V: Virtual Environment and Tool-Boxing for Trustworthy Development of RISC-V Based Cloud Services	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Conference proceedings	2023	https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD60849.2023.00050
Vitamin-V	Automatic linux malware detection using binary inspection and runtime opcode tracing	Hardware Architecture and High-Performance Computing (HPC)	Peer reviewed articles	2026	https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MICPRO.2025.105237