RISC-V Summit

While RISC-V is revolutionizing the world of Instruction Set Architectures by taking an open, community-based approach to development of the ISA itself, reference implementations, and the software ecosystem that surrounds it, a parallel movement is also taking place in the world of cloud computing. Similar to ISAs other than RISC-V, cloud platforms have traditionally exposed an interface for users to interact with, typically via a REST API, but the implementation details have remained proprietary. Additionally, the heterogeneous nature of cloud provider APIs has led to a disparate ecosystem of software used to interact with the platforms. In this talk we'll examine how the cloud ecosystem is experiencing a revolution similar to the open hardware movement, then explore what a future looks like when these two efforts coalesce.