# Towards the GSVM Client ### GSVM: A New Execution Paradigm Blockchains have historically underutilized modern compute. While industries like AI have embraced GPUs, FPGAs, and SmartNICs to achieve orders of magnitude throughput gains, most blockchains continue to optimize for outdated hardware assumptions and rigid execution models. Eclipse introduces **GigaCompute**: a new compute paradigm that rethinks blockchain performance from first principles, leveraging the freedom of being a modular Layer 2 to co-design software and hardware across the stack. At the center of this thesis is **GSVM**, a high-performance, hardware-aware SVM client built to scale with modern infrastructure. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.eclipse.xyz/architecture/eclipse-architecture/gsvm.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.