Devconf.cz 2023

Both the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) recently started investing in chip design and manufacturing via their
respective CHIPS Acts, with the end goal being sovereignty in the semiconductor industry. Part of the EU investments is the recently
funded Horizon Europe AERO project. AERO has the single goal of upbringing the necessary software components for cloud-ready deployments over the EU processor designs created by the European
Processor Initiative (EPI). In this talk we will provide an overview of the AERO project and will demonstrate two key components of the
software stack regarding the Java ecosystem:
1) Quarkus from Red Hat; a Kubernetes Native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and
GraalVM's native-image.
2) TornadoVM from the University of Manchester; a JVM plugin for accelerating Java programs on GPUs and FPGAs.