The Horizon 2020-funded EVEREST project, coordinated by IBM Research Europe, released its first open-source System Development Kit (EVEREST SDK). A team led by Prof. Christian Pilato from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, scientific coordinator, is also participating in the project.
Launched on October 1, 2024, the EVEREST project gathers application developers, compiler experts, runtime specialists, platform engineers, and security experts with the common goal of creating an integrated set of tools to co-develop and securely deploy high-performance big data analytics applications on heterogeneous FPGA-based platforms. More specifically, the EVEREST SDK provides a unique set of features to create and optimise complex FPGA architectures, with an emphasis on reusability and interoperability
The development of the EVEREST SDK was driven by real-world use cases. The use cases involve diverse applications, including improved forecasting of renewable energy production based on accelerated and AI-enhanced weather prediction, air-quality prediction around large industrial sites, and traffic prediction based on AI models combined with real-time data from smart-city environments.
A preview of the newly released SDK was presented at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) on May 5, 2024 where interested users were able to gain hands-on experience with the development and deployment tools offered by the SDK.
The EVEREST project brings together partners from Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.