Samurai

Introduction

SAMURAI (Sustainable And autonoMoUs gReen computing for AI) is a pioneering research project that enhances the SeDuCe infrastructure. This project aims to create an advanced hardware platform for studying the intersection of AI infrastructure and energy autonomy, focusing on renewable energy integration and AI computing capabilities.

In short

• Integration of an intelligent energy storage system, aiming for complete energy autonomy.
• Extension with AI computing nodes: Incorporation of several high-performance nodes with GPUs for intensive AI computations.
• Addition of over 150 advanced sensor nodes (FIT IoT-Lab nodes) for embedded sensing and AI applications.
• Mutiple Jetson Nano nodes with integrated GPUs for edge computing with low-latency and AI capabilities.
• Mutiple Edge compute nodes based on the RaspberryPi 4B for geo-distributed edge computing.
• Detailed power consumption monitoring for all nodes.
• Focus on multidisciplinary research in areas like energy management, AI, distributed computing and IoT.
• Future integration into the SLICES RI and the SLICES-FR projects.

Team

• Jean-Marc Menaud
• Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis

Funding

The CPER Samurai is funded by:

• Regional council of the Pays de la Loire
• Nantes Metropole
• IMT Atlantique
• French government
• European Union via the
  • European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)
  • Recovery assistance for cohesion and the territories of Europe (REACT-EU)