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+title: "Introducing the SYCLOPS Consortium"
+date: 2023-11-29
+layout: update
+tags:
+  - consortium
+  - announcement
+---
+
+Announced in May this year, the SYCLOPS Project brings together 8 leading organizations from across Europe,
+collaborating to democratize AI acceleration and break the existing monopoly on the acceleration market. Our combined
+vision is using open standards to enable a healthy, competition-driven ecosystem with widespread adoption of both
+RISC-V®, an open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and SYCL™, the open specification parallel to 
+ISO C++ and maintained by the Khronos Group.
+
+Each collaborating partner brings their own expertise and unique insights to the project, and in this blog each member
+of the SYCLOPS project will introduce their organization, and the work they will be contributing to the project.
+
+## Accelom
+
+ACCELOM is a French SME specializing in the development of bespoke AI-based multi-omics pipelines for performing
+integrated analysis of genomic data from multiple molecular levels to provide a holistic picture of how genomics drives
+the progression of a disease in a way that would not be possible using traditional, non-integrated analysis methods. One
+key challenge faced by ACCELOM is that its pipelines are designed for a scale-up, single-server, CPU-based deployment as
+it is intended for its customers and collaborators who cannot move their data to the public cloud due to privacy
+reasons, and who cannot afford to operate large datacenters due to economic constraints. Through project SYCLOPS,
+ACCELOM will develop SYCL-GAL and use it to develop a new version of the multiomics pipeline. We will demonstrate the
+effectiveness of the new pipeline via thorough, extensive evaluation using publicly available datasets from European
+data sources
+
+## CERN
+
+The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was established in 1954 near Geneva, Switzerland. At CERN, high
+energy physics collaborations conduct experiments with the help of particle accelerators. CERN currently operates the
+world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ROOT project at CERN provides software
+libraries and tools for the processing of the ever growing amount of data collected from the LHC. In order to sustain
+this data deluge the software needs to be ported to computing accelerators. ROOT provides use cases for the SYCLOPS
+project, porting them to SYCL and measuring their performance.
+
+## Codasip
+
+Codasip is a processor technology company enabling SoC developers to differentiate their products for competitive
+advantage. Codasip’s offering can be summarized as Custom Compute. The solution is based on the Codasip Studio design
+automation tools. The tools can be used to customize and optimize the company’s range of RISC-V processor cores by
+adding domain-specific or application-specific extensions, or to design a processor from scratch. Codasip’s role in the
+project is to develop domain-specific accelerators based on the RISC-V Vector extension (RVV). This will be achieved
+using Codasip Studio and the CodAL processor description language.
+
+## Codeplay®
+
+Codeplay Software, founded in 2002 in Edinburgh, Scotland is a leader in acceleration technologies used in the AI and
+HPC industry. In 2022, they were acquired by Intel to expand the oneAPI ecosystem based on SYCL, a cross-platform
+software abstraction for heterogeneous processors. As active members of the Khronos Group and leaders in the open
+standards ecosystem, Codeplay will use their expertise to lead on the communication activities of SYCLOPS and
+participate in conferences and events to showcase the ongoing work of the project.
+
+## Eurecom
+
+EURECOM is a leading French engineering school and a founding member of the SophiaTech Campus in Sophia Antipolis, the
+largest Computer Science and Technology campus in Alpes-Maritimes region of France. The Data Science department of
+EURECOM brings its world-renowned expertise and reputation in the field of statistical machine learning, multimodal data
+processing and knowledge engineering, which empower artificial intelligence systems. The Data Science department is a
+founding member of the “Region SUD” Artificial Intelligence cluster, which was recently recognized by the French
+government as a cluster of excellence (3IA). In SYCLOPS, EURECOM acts as both the technical and administrative
+coordinator. In addition, EURECOM will also collaborate with various SYCLOPS partners in developing optimized algorithms
+for scaling the performance of various cross-architecture acceleration libraries.
+
+## Heidelberg University
+
+Heidelberg University – also known as Ruperto Carola – was established in 1386 and is Germany’s oldest university. It is
+also one of the strongest research universities in all of Europe. The successes of Heidelberg University in the
+Excellence Competitions and in international rankings are evidence of its leading role on the academic scene.
+Heidelberg University is a comprehensive university with a broad spectrum of subjects and focus on research-based
+teaching and well-structured training for doctoral students.
+Currently, approx. 1.400 Postdocs and 8.900 PhD Students are enrolled and 36 ERC grants are running at Heidelberg
+University.
+
+The Engineering Mathematics and Computing Lab (EMCL) is a research group at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific
+Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University. EMCL is particularly noted for its openness to multidisciplinary research in
+the field of engineering and scientific computing. EMCL currently pursues five major research themes: Computational
+Mathematics, Uncertainty Quantification, Hardware Aware Numerics and High Performance Computing and IT Security.
+One of EMCL’s developments, AdaptiveCpp (formerly known as hipSYCL), is a flexible compiler and runtime system that
+implements the SYCL standard on multiple device architectures. In the course of the project, EMCL will expand
+AdaptiveCpp to support for RISC-V devices. This requires generalizing and extending the existing compiler and runtime
+infrastructure. Additionally, EMCL will work on techniques to increase the utilization of devices in the system by
+leveraging automatic work distribution. As a provider of a developer tool at the platform layer of the SYCLOPS stack,
+EMCL will work closely with the project partners to ensure that AdaptiveCpp is a reliable platform for the project.
+
+## Hiro Microdatacenters
+
+HIRO-MicroDataCenters is a Dutch micro SME specializing in Edge as a Service, specifically MicroDataCenter solutions (
+hardware and software) for Big Data processing and AI in data dense Edge environments in various Industries &
+applications. In SYCLOPS, HIRO will be developing high-performance, energy-efficient, heterogeneous edge micro
+datacenters (EMDC) that will serve as both development testbed to validate the SYCLOPS stack and as a reference platform
+for the design of future PCIe 5.0 compatible EMDCs in comExpress form factor.
+
+## INESC-ID
+
+INESC-ID (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa) is a private,
+not-for-profit Portuguese R&D and Innovation organization that promotes cooperation between academia and industry and
+has been establishing excellence in R&D activities since 1999. INESC-ID now stands, and is viewed, as one of the most
+dynamic research institutes in Portugal in the broad areas of computer science and electrical engineering. The research
+relevance of the INESC-ID High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) group on performance modeling,
+application optimization, and parallelization on state-of-the-art computing platforms synergies among the objectives of
+the SYCLOPS project. In this regard, INESC-ID’s role in the project spans multiple layers of the SYCLOPS stack, which
+include the exploration of cross-architecture insightful performance models, profiling of the three SYCLOPS use cases,
+as well as enabling acceleration strategies within the SYCL-GAL library with SYCL-based version of pairHMM used for
+variant calling.

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