WasmEdge

One of the most important features of WasmEdge is its support for non-blocking network sockets. However, the current WasmEdge API for async networking is still cumbersome. Rust developers would prefer to use a Tokio-like async / await API for such tasks. But Tokio is multi-threaded and cannot run correctly in standard single-threaded WebAssembly. Yet, it is possible to provide a single-threaded Tokio runtime. Our goal is to create a WebAssembly compatible Tokio scheduler.

Description: WasmEdge provides C SDK as the based library and uses this to implement other languages SDK such as Golang, Rust, Java, and Python(developing). We would like to provide C++ SDK in this task. Expected Outcome: A document to explain the C++ SDK, a test suite cover the implementation details, and the implementation of WasmEdge Basics and VM sections in the C SDK.

LLM is a hot topic, there are more and more frameworks to make the execution of LLM faster. WasmEdge already integrated the llama.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) as one of the backend. Running LLM with CPU only is huge for those users who don't have GPU. We would like to integrate Intel Extension for Transformers (https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-transformers) as a new WASI-NN backend to provide a faster CPU inference performance. Expected Outcome: A new plugin provides a Intel Extension for Transformers WASI-NN (https://github.com/second-state/wasmedge-wasi-nn) backend, a test suite for validating the plugin, documents and examples for explaining how to use the plugin.

The current validator of component model inside of WasmEdge only check nested module and ensure VM can run the nested modules without problem, but the validations from component model are mostly skipped. Expected Outcome: 1. One should create a workable (merged into upstream) implementation of validator by working on 2. include/validator/validator_component.h 3. lib/validator/validator_component.cpp 4. The visitor pattern are already setup. Recommended Skills: Since component model proposal separate their validation spec, one should able to find requirements from https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/tree/main/design/mvp

Description: WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. WasmEdge is an official sandbox project hosted by the CNCF. WasmEdge is designed for the general purpose wasm runtime. However, when running rustpython, we found the performance is worse than other runtimes such as wasmtime, even after using the ahead-of-time compilation.