Non-profit organizations OpenHW Group and Mitacs announced the OpenHW Accelerate research program, funded by $22.5 million. The goal of the program is to stimulate research in the field of open hardware, including the development of new generations of open processors, architectures and related software for solving problems in machine learning and other energy-intensive computing systems. The initiative will be funded with the support of the Government of Canada and corporate sponsors, with the involvement of scientific and educational institutions in carrying out the work.
The first OpenHW Accelerate project will be CORE-V VEC, which aims to develop architectural optimizations to implement RISC-V vector processors that can be used for high-performance processing of multi-dimensional sensor data and to accelerate machine learning-related computations. The project will be implemented with financial support from CMC Microsystems with the involvement of researchers from ETH Zurich and Γcole Polytechnique de MontrΓ©al. The CORE-V VEC project will take three years to complete.
Source: opennet.ru