ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
Excellent Science:
HPC Strategy
- Computer Science: towards exascale High
Performance Computing (FET);
- Providing access to the best
supercomputing facilities and services for
both industry and academia (PRACE);
- Achieving excellence in HPC applications
(FET + Research Infrastructure).
LEIT: ECSEL joint undertaking
Components
Next generation micro processors /
controllers, System-on-Chip, processor
architectures
Societal Challenges:
Applications
Health, food, energy, transport, climate,
inclusion/innovation, security
•LEIT (ICT7 + ICT8): Cloud strategy
•- Cloud R&I: Heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, federated
cloud networking; cloud innovation platforms;
- PCP for public sector cloud computing services; PPI for
cloud computing solutions.
LEIT (ICT4): Customised and low
power computing systems
Next generation computing systems: scalable microservers ("data-centres in the box")
Programming approaches for the computing
continuum: productivity, multi-parameter optimisation
Platform-building for problems with real-time
constraints; application experiments in cyber-physical
systems
LEIT = LEadership in Industrial Technologies
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
Excellent Science:
HPC Strategy
- Computer Science: towards exascale High
Performance Computing (FET);
Seismic data
- Providing access to the best
analysis
supercomputing
facilities and services for
both industry and academia (PRACE);
- Achieving excellence in HPC applications
(FET + Research Infrastructure).
LEIT: ECSEL joint undertaking
Components
System on
a Chip
Next generation micro processors /
controllers, System-on-Chip, processor
architectures
Societal Challenges:
Applications
Application
Health, food, energy, transport, climate,
inclusion/innovation, security
•LEIT (ICT7 + ICT8): Cloud strategy
•- Cloud R&I: Heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, federated
cloud networking; cloud innovation platforms;
Commercial
public Cloud
- PCP for public sector cloud computing services; PPI for
cloud computing solutions.
LEIT (ICT4): Customised and low
Vehicle
power
computing systems
stability
Next generation computing systems: scalable microservers
("data-centres in theEmbedded
box")
Integrated
Programming
for the computing
system approachesspecialised
continuum: productivity, multi-parameter
optimisation
computing
Platform-building
Tools & for problems with real-time
constraints; application experiments in cyber-physical
platforms
systems
LEIT = LEadership in Industrial Technologies
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
Computing is changing (again): embedded ICT and cyberphysical systems are everywhere; demand for low-power
and high-performance computing is growing; a new
"computing continuum" is emerging.
Three trends are common across many market segments:
Multi core and
parallel architectures
Energy efficiency
Mixed criticality systems
and applications
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
What we ask for (1)
Servers, micro-server and highly parallel
embedded computing systems based on ultra-low
power architectures
Integration of HW and SW into working prototypes
Low-power, low-cost, high-density, secure, reliable, scalable
Cross-layer programming approaches to exploit
the full potential of heterogeneous parallel
architectures
Multi-dimensional optimisation (performance, energy, response time…)
Programming approach per application class, easy for programmers
Scalable market approach
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
What we ask for (1)
Servers, micro-server and highly parallel
embedded
systems based
on(FP7)
ultra-low
A good computing
start: EUROSERVER
project
power
architectures
New low-power architecture
Integration of HW and SW into working prototypes
Reuse energy-efficient
components
inscalable
a micro-server
Low-power,
low-cost, high-density,
secure, reliable,
solution
High-performance, scalable from embedded to cloud
BUT: focused on hardware
Cross-layer
programming approaches to exploit
for H2020 we need integration across all layers (HW & SW)
the full potential of heterogeneous parallel
architectures
Multi-dimensional optimisation (performance, energy, response time…)
Programming approach per application class, easy for programmers
Scalable market approach
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
What we ask for (2)
Reference architectures and platforms
across several sectors and application domains
Use-case driven
Industrial consensus building, pre-normative activities, reference implementations, proof-of concept
demonstrations and validation in key application domains
Small proposals
Application experiments bringing together
all actors along the value chain
experiments clustered in large scale projects driven by networks of European centres of excellence
Open calls
Large proposals
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
What we ask for (2)
Reference architectures and platforms
across several sectors and application domains.
Use-case driven
Industrial consensus building, pre-normative activities, reference implementations, proof-of concept
demonstrations and validation in key application domains
A good example: I4MS (ICT for Manufacturing SMEs)
Small proposals
Helping high-tech and innovative SMEs to profit from advances in ICT
"In total
about 200 SMEs will
take part in I4MS
with more than 150
Application
experiments
bringing
together
innovation experiments over the next 3 years"
all actors along the value chain
a similar
initiative
for customised
and low-power
computing
experimentsNeed
clustered
in large scale
projects driven
by networks of European
centres of excellence
Open calls
Large proposals
ICT4 - Customised and low power computing
Yes, but what's new?
We do NOT want:
Embedded systems have evolved into
cyber-physical systems (connected)
Proposals with no industrial
or innovation aspects.
Wide availability of multi-core and the end
of Moore's law
Proposals without prototypes,
applications or experiments.
Optimisation is now multi-dimensional:
energy, performance, response time,
security… (more non-functional
requirements)
HPC remains a different market, but
now "embedded HPC" is emerging
Programmers don’t have to be
specialists in parallel algorithms
Who are the leading players?
System integrators (Bull, Eurotech, Ericsson, IBM, Thales)
Hardware (ST-Microelectronics, ARM, Infineon, Intel)
Research (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, FORTH,
Fraunhofer, INRIA, POLIMI, UNI-Stuttgart, TU-Wien)
Industrial users (Airbus, Comau, EDF, Philips)
…and many others (including many innovative SMEs)
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/advanced-computing
sandro.delia@ec.europa.eu