The HiPEAC Vision seeks to set a long-term vision for the future of computing systems. Hence the main directions are quite similar from one edition to the other, although each edition has inflexions deriving from what is currently going on in computing systems.
As such, the ‘races’ introduced in the HiPEAC Vision 2023 are still valid (indeed, increasingly so), as is the proposed direction towards the ‘next computing paradigm’ outlined in the HiPEAC Vision 2024, which even more achievable due to the current advances in science and technology.
It is obvious that the most influential element between the HiPEAC Vision 2024 and this Vision 2025 is the exponential progress of artificial intelligence (AI). This is reflected in this edition, where the two main highlights are how to realize the NCP and the impact of AI. They are even merged into short-term recommendations: using the emergence of distributed agentic AI to set the basis of the NCP technology, i.e. to be the blueprints of what could be a more generic and omnipresent NCP, but one which is adapted to the particular case of distributed agentic AI. We will see in the part of this vision related to artificial intelligence that it is logical because there are close similarities of requirements and technologies between both.
The main focus of the HiPEAC Vision 2025 is therefore the NCP, and its implications in different domains: artificial intelligence, new innovative hardware, tools to develop more efficient hardware and software, cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, and sustainability. This is complemented by an analysis of the position of Europe, with suggestions of how to improve Europe’s position in relation to the global races.