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European Initiatives
FP7 & H2020 Projects
Eurolab-4-HPC
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Title: EuroLab-4-HPC: Foundations of a European Research Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems
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Europe has built momentum in becoming a leader in large parts of the HPC ecosystem. It has brought together technical and business stakeholders from application developers via system software to exascale systems. Despite such gains, excellence in high performance computing systems is often fragmented and opportunities for synergy missed. To compete internationally, Europe must bring together the best research groups to tackle the longterm challenges for HPC. These typically cut across layers, e.g., performance, energy efficiency and dependability, so excellence in research must target all the layers in the system stack. The EuroLab-4-HPC project's bold overall goal is to build connected and sustainable leadership in high-performance computing systems by bringing together the different and leading performance orientated communities in Europe, working across all layers of the system stack and, at the same time, fuelling new industries in HPC.
TETRACOM
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Coordinator: RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
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The mission of the TETRACOM Coordination Action is to boost European academia-to-industry technology transfer (TT) in all domains of Computing Systems. While many other European and national initiatives focus on training of entrepreneurs and support for start-up companies, the key differentiator of TETRACOM is a novel instrument called Technology Transfer Project (TTP). TTPs help to lower the barrier for researchers to make the first steps towards commercialisation of their research results. TTPs are designed to provide incentives for TT at small to medium scale via partial funding of dedicated, well-defined, and short term academia-industry collaborations that bring concrete R&D results into industrial use. This will be implemented via competitive Expressions-of-Interest (EoI) calls for TTPs, whose coordination, prioritization, evaluation, and management are the major actions of TETRACOM. It is expected to fund up to 50 TTPs. The TTP activities will be complemented by Technology Transfer Infrastructures (TTIs) that provide training, service, and dissemination actions. These are designed to encourage a larger fraction of the R&D community to engage in TTPs, possibly even for the first time. Altogether, TETRACOM is conceived as the major pilot project of its kind in the area of Computing Systems, acting as a TT catalyst for the mutual benefit of academia and industry. The projects primary success metrics are the number and value of coordinated TTPs as well as the amount of newly introduced European TT actors. It is expected to acquire around more than 20 new contractors over the project duration. TETRACOM complements and actually precedes the use of existing financial instruments such as venture capital or business angels based funding.
COPCAMS
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'Vision systems are becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives. Complex analysis of images from multiple cameras will become the norm in the future, from cars to industrial systems, from smart cities to facility monitoring, aimed at extracting meaningful, context-dependent information. Today’s market is dominated by a combination of relatively simple, fixed function, configurable cameras that stream video to PC-based (and in some cases small embedded) gateways. These systems cannot scale beyond a certain size because of power consumption and the aggregate networking bandwidth required to stream videos to servers, where aggregated video analysis is performed. So the trend for visual analytics functions is that they get executed at the edge of these complex vision systems, e.g. in the cameras themselves. The Cognitive and Perceptive Camera Systems (COPCAMS) proposal leverages recent advances in embedded computing platforms to design, prototype and field-test full large-scale vision systems. It aims at exploiting a new many-core programmable accelerator platform to power a new generation of vision related devices (smart cameras and gateways), able to extract relevant information from captured images and autonomously react to the sensed environment by interoperating at large scale in a distributed manner. Date of approval by ARTEMIS JU: 7/04/2015.'
EMC2
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Title: Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments
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"kompetenzzentrum - Das Virtuelle Fahrzeug, Forschungsgesellschaft Mbh" (Austria)
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Institut Mikroelektronickych Aplikaci S.R.O. (Czech Republic)
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Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale Per l'Informatica (Italy)
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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V (Germany)
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"inesc Id - Instituto de Engenhariade Sistemas E Computadores, Investigacao E Desenvolvimento Em Lisboa Associacao" (Portugal)
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Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno (Netherlands)
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"ustav Teorie Informace A Automatizace Av Cr, V.V.I." (Czech Republic)
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Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler. Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and many-core computing platforms are becoming available on the market and provide a breakthrough for system (and application) integration. A major industrial challenge arises facing (cost) efficient integration of different applications with different levels of safety and security on a single computing platform in an open context. The objective of the EMC² project (Embedded multi-core systems for mixed criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments) is to foster these changes through an innovative and sustainable service-oriented architecture approach for mixed criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments. The EMC2 project focuses on the industrialization of European research outcomes and builds on the results of previous ARTEMIS, European and National projects. It provides the paradigm shift to a new and sustainable system architecture which is suitable to handle open dynamic systems. EMC² is part of the European Embedded Systems industry strategy to maintain its leading edge position by providing solutions for: . Dynamic Adaptability in Open Systems . Utilization of expensive system features only as Service-on-Demand in order to reduce the overall system cost. . Handling of mixed criticality applications under real-time conditions . Scalability and utmost flexibility . Full scale deployment and management of integrated tool chains, through the entire lifecycle Approved by ARTEMIS-JU on 12/12/2013 for EoN. Minor mistakes and typos corrected by the Coordinator, finally approved by ARTEMIS-JU on 24/01/2014. Amendment 1 changes approved by ECSEL-JU on 31/03/2015.
Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7 & H2020
EMC2
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Future mobility solutions will increasingly rely on smart components that continuously monitor the environment and assume more and more responsibility for a convenient, safe and reliable operation. In order to realize this vision, the need for computing power will drastically increase beyond what can be provided by conventional sequential single-core hardware. While the required efficiency and scalability makes it mandatory for future embedded micro-controllers to rely on multi- and many-core architectures, the change in hardware architecture also entails fundamental changes to state of the art software development methodology. Replacing today’s essentially sequential technology by omnipresent communication between cores poses the tremendous challenge in software development to identify and exploit opportunities for concurrency in a way which still guarantees reliable and predictable behavior. Aside from the evolution of new hardware architectures, software development must address the increasing level of complexity of new highly automatic mobility solutions. For automotive, the self-driving car is the next big revolution and it is still unclear how functional and non-functional guarantees can be given for this new class of assistance functions. European industry heavily relies on the premium market segments. In these segments, innovative functions are the most important factor to influence buying decisions. New competitors, e.g. Google, enter the stage and challenge the established industry with eager visions. However, the single most important roadblock for this market is the ability to come up with an affordable, safe multi-core development methodology that allows industry to deliver trustworthy new functions at competitive prices. The ASSUME algorithm portfolio will be the key technology to bring innovative solutions from sandboxes into consumers’ daily lives. ASSUME provides a seamless engineering methodology to overcome this roadblock. The problem is addressed on the constructive and on the analytic side. For efficient construction and synthesis of embedded systems, the project provides new tools, standards and methodologies to cover most of the challenges by design. In addition, ASSUME provides a well-integrated sound static analysis solution that allows proving the absence of problems even in a multi-core environment. New algorithms will be integrated in exploitable tools. New interoperability standards and requirements formalization standards will facilitate cooperation between different market players. The ASSUME consortium includes leading European industry partners for mobility solutions, tool and service providers for embedded system development as well as leading research institutes for static analysis for model-driven and traditional embedded systems development.
Collaborations with Major European Organizations
Albert Cohen is an external member of the ARTEMIS-IA Working Group. Collaborating on the writing of the association's Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), and the ECSEL JU Multi-Annual Research and Innovation Agenda (MASRIA).