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CAPE Update #10: Mechanics and Cooling
July 2026 by Éva Trungel (CDTV) As computing platforms continue to increase in performance, mechanical design plays a critical role in ensuring structural integrity, serviceability, and effective thermal management. In this project, CAD-Terv developed the mechanical concept of a modular

CAPE at RISC-V Summit Europe 2026
Last week, Christian from Bielefeld University attended the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna, Italy. Within the workshop on “Advancing RISC-V Adoption in HPC and Cloud Environments“, organized by CAPE’s sibling EU-project HIGHER Project, Christian gave some insights from CAPE’s work

CAPE Update #9: Edge Server Management
written by Julian Gajewski (CHR, christmann informationstechnik + medien GmbH & Co. KG) As a key component of CAPE, the openMPMC (Open Multi Platform Management Controller) serves as a link between CAPE’s hardware platforms or third-party servers and CAPE’s software

CAPE Update #08: Use Case “Satellite Payload Data Processing”
May 2026, written by PCB Design Kft. Modern satellites generate massive data volumes (Earth-observation imagery, radar, telemetry). Traditionally, raw data is sent to centralized cloud data centers for processing – causing delays, high bandwidth costs, and reliance on non-European cloud

CAPE at Computing Frontiers 26
“Did you ever wonder how to setup a Kubernetes cluster spanning Cloud and on-premises Edge servers from scratch?” Martin from Bielefeld University addressed this tedious task within CAPE and presented his work at the “Computing Frontiers 26” conference in Catania,

CAPE at ECESCON17
The R&D department of IPTO, presented the CAPE project at ECESCON 17. IPTO actively participated in the ECESCON conference, where it presented the European research project CAPE and the latest developments related to the digitalization of energy infrastructures. During the