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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

Eurolab-4-HPC
  • Title: EuroLab-4-HPC: Foundations of a European Research Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems

  • Programm: H2020

  • Duration: September 2015 - September 2017

  • Coordinator: CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB

  • Partners:

    • Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (Spain)

    • Chalmers Tekniska Hoegskola (Sweden)

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

    • Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (Switzerland)

    • Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)

    • Universitaet Stuttgart (Germany)

    • Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany)

    • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)

    • Universitaet Augsburg (Germany)

    • The University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

    • Universiteit Gent (Belgium)

    • The University of Manchester (United Kingdom)

  • Inria contact: Albert Cohen

  • 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
  • Title: Technology Transfer in Computing Systems

  • Programm: FP7

  • Duration: September 2013 - August 2016

  • Coordinator: RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN

  • Partners:

    • Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom)

    • Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany)

    • Technische Universiteit Delft (Netherlands)

    • Tty-Saatio (Finland)

    • Universita di Pisa (Italy)

  • Inria contact: Albert Cohen

  • 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.

Collaborations in European Programs, Except FP7 & H2020

  • Program: ITEA 3

  • Project acronym: ASSUME

  • Project title: Affordable Safe & Secure Mobility Evolution

  • Duration: Sep 2015–Aug 2018

  • Coordinator: Udo Gleich

  • Other partners: AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH, Airbus, Arcelik, Articus Systems AB, BTC Embedded Systems AG, Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH, Daimler AG, Eindhoven University of Technology, Ericsson, ANSYS, FindOut Technologies AB,

    Ford Otosan, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Havelsan, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Kalray SA, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kiel University, Koc University, KoçSistem, Model Engineering Solutions GmbH, Mälardalen University, NXP Semiconductors, OFFIS, Recore Systems BV, Robert Bosch GmbH, Safran Aircraft Engines SAS, Safran Electronics & Defense, Scania, TNO, Thales, UNIT Information Technologies R&D Ltd., University Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Technology in Munich, University of Twente, VDL Bus & Coach bv, Verum Software Tools BV, École normale supérieure.

  • Abstract: 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. Currently 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. ASSUME will provide a seamless engineering methodology, which addresses this roadblock on the constructive and analytic side.

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).

https://artemis-ia.eu