Towards EXtreme scale Technologies and Accelerators for euROhpc hw/Sw Supercomputing Applications for exascale

The TEXTAROSSA project aims to achieve a broad impact on the High Performance Computing (HPC) field both in pre-exascale and exascale scenarios. The TEXTAROSSA consortium will develop new hardware accelerators, innovative two-phase cooling equipment, advanced algorithms, methods and software products. The developed technologies will be tested on the Integrated Development Vehicles (IDV) mirroring and extending the European Processor Initiative’s ARM64-based architecture, and on an OpenSequana testbed. To drive the technology development and assess the impact of the proposed innovations from node to system levels, TEXTAROSSA will use a selected but representative number of HPC, HPDA and AI applications covering challenging HPC domains such as general-purpose numerical kernels, High Energy Physics (HEP), Oil & Gas, climate modelling, as well as emerging domains such as High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and High Performance Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI).

https://textarossa.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/956831

Period:
2021-2024 (36 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
956090
Call:
EuroHPC-01-2019/Extreme scale computing and data driven technologies
Role:
Project Technical Manager and Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• ENEA (IT)
• ... (DE)

Approximate Computing for Power and Energy Optimisation

In the race towards building smarter, more powerful and more connected machines, scientists are also searching for ways to make sure they are energy efficient. If no action is taken, computers will soon need more electricity than the world energy resources can generate. More alarmingly, the Internet of Things will connect up to 50 billion devices to the cloud through wireless networks. The EU-funded APROPOS project is exploring ways to decrease energy consumption and optimise energy-accuracy trade-offs. To that end, it is developing approximate computing, in which applications using data may be satisfied with an 'acceptable' level of accuracy, and it will train early-stage researchers in energy-accuracy trade-offs on circuit, architecture, software and system-level solutions. According to the project, energy efficiency can thus be improved by a factor of up to 50 times.

https://projects.tuni.fi/apropos/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/956090

Period:
2021-2024 (48 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
956090
Call:
MSCA-ITN-2020 - Innovative Training Networks (Marie Curie)
Role:
Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• Uni Tampere (FL)
• 14 EU academic partners plus 12 Industrial partners

REliable power and time-ConstraInts-aware Predictive management of heterogeneous Exascale systems

RECIPE provides a hierarchical runtime resource management infrastructure to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the occurrence of thermal hotspots, while enforcing the time constraints imposed by the applications, and ensuring reliability for both time-critical and throughput-oriented computation.

https://recipe-project.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/801137

Period:
2018-2021 (42 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
801137
Call:
H2020-FETHPC-2017
Role:
Project Coordinator

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• UPV (ES)
• CeRICT (IT)
• BSC (ES)
• PSNC (PL)
• EPFL (CH)
• IBTS (IT)
• CHUV (CH)

HARnessing Performance vAriability

The goal of HARPA is to enable next-generation embedded and high-performance heterogeneous many-cores to cost-effectively confront variations by providing Dependable-Performance: correct functionality and timing guarantees throughout the expected lifetime of a platform under thermal, power, and energy constraints.

http://www.harpa-project.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/612069

Period:
2013-2017 (39 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
612069
Call:
FP7-ICT-2013-10-612069
Role:
Project Coordinator

Partners:

• UPV (ES)
• POLIMI (IT)
• IMEC (NL)
• ICCS (GR)
• UCY (CY)
• EATON (FR))
• THALES (FR)
• HENESIS (CAMLIN Group) (IT)

exploring Manycore Architectures for Next-GeneratiOn HPC systems

The objective of MANGO is to achieve extreme resource efficiency in future QoS-sensitive HPC through ambitious cross-boundary architecture exploration. The research will investigate the architectural implications of the emerging requirements of HPC applications, aiming at the definition of new-generation high-performance, power-efficient, deeply heterogeneous architectures with native mechanisms for isolation and quality-of-service.

http://www.mango-project.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/671668

Period:
2015-2019 (42 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
671668
Call:
H2020-EU.1.2.2. - FET Proactive
Role:
Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• EPFL (CH)
• prodesign (DE)
• CeRICT (IT)
• UniZG (HR)
• VSB-IT4I (CZ)
• THALES (FR)
• PHILIPS (NL)

Modular Microserver Data Centre

M2DC targets the development of a new class of energy-efficient TCO-optimized appliances with built-in efficiency and dependability enhancements. The appliances will be easy to integrate with a broad ecosystem of management software and fully software-defined to enable optimization for a variety of future demanding applications in a cost-effective way.

http://www.m2dc.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/671668

Period:
2016-2019 (42 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
688201
Call:
H2020-EU.1.1.1 - ICT-04-2015 - Customised and low power computing
Role:
Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• PSNC (PL)
• ARM (UK)
• CHRISTMANN (DE)
• Vodafone Automotive (IT)
• CEA (FR)
• Uni Bielefeld (DE)
• XLAB (SI)
• CEWE (DE)
• REFLEX (FR)
• ALLIANCE (FR)
• OFFIS (DE)
• Huawei (DE)

PARallel PAradigms and Run-time MAnagement techniques for Many-core Architectures

Many-core Computing Fabric promises to increase performance, scalability and flexibility if appropriate design and programming methodologies will be defined to exploit the high degree of parallelism exposed by the architecture. Other potential benefits of Many-core Computing Fabric include energy efficiency, improved silicon yield, and accounting for local process variations. To exploit these potential benefits, effective run-time power and resource management techniques are needed. With respect to conventional computing architectures, Many-core Computing Fabric offers some customisation capabilities to extend and/or configure at run-time the architectural template to address a variable workload. The project has been ranked as success story by EU .

http://2parma.microlab.ntua.gr/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/248716

Period:
2010-2013 (39 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
248716
Call:
FP7-ICT-2009.3.6 - Computing Systems
Role:
Project Technical Manager

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• FRAUNHOFER (DE)
• IMEC (NL)
• RWTH AACHEN (DE)
• StMicroelectronics (FR)
• ICCS (GR)

Safe Cooperating Cyber-Physical Systems using Wireless Communication

SafeCOP is a project that targets the so-called Cooperating Cyber-Physical Systems (CO-CPS), that is systems that rely on wireless communication, have multiple stakeholders, use dynamic system definitions (openness) and operate in unpredictable environments. No single responsible stakeholder can be identified in these scenarios. This means that safe cooperation relies on wireless communication and security is an important concern. SafeCOP will provide an approach to CO-CPS’ safety assurance, thus allowing their certification and development. .

http://www.safecop.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/692529

Period:
2016-2019 (39 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
692529
Call:
H2020-EU.1.1.1.7 ECSEL-08-2015
Role:
Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• ???? (??)

Design of embedded mixed-criticality CONTRol systems under consideration of EXtra-functional properties

Up to now, mission & safety critical services of SoS (Systems of Systems) have been running on dedicated and often custom designed HW/SW platforms. In the near future such systems will be accessible, connected with or executed on devices comprising off-the-shelf HW/SW components. Significant improvements have been achieved supporting the design of mixed-critical systems by developing predictable computing platforms and mechanisms for segregation between applications of different criticalities sharing computing resources. Such platforms enable techniques for the compositional certification of applications’ correctness, run-time properties and reliability. CONTREX will complement these important activities with an analysis and segregation along the extra-functional properties real-time, power, temperature and reliability. .

https://contrex.offis.de
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/611146

Period:
2013-2016 (36 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
611146
Call:
FP7-ICT-2013-10, ICT-2013.3.4 - Advanced computing, embedded and control systems
Role:
Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• STM (IT)
• OFFIS (DE)
• COBRA (CH)
• Eurotech (IT)
• Intecs (IT)
• iXtronics (DE)
• Docea (FR)
• PoliTO (IT)
• ST-PoliTO (IT)
• UC (ES)
• KTH (SE)
• ECSI (FR)
• EDALab (FR)

COdesign and power Management in PLatform-based design space EXploration

Rising heterogeneity and complexity of embedded systems results into gaps and defines challenges that a leading industry has to face, such as handling complexity of execution platforms and applications, uncertainty of platform selection and application to platform mapping, balancing between increasing power consumption, performance, and explicit application needs and meeting memory demands both in size and access times. As a consequence, the primary objective of COMPLEX is to develop an innovative, highly efficient and productive design methodology and a holistic framework for iteratively exploring the design space of embedded hardware/software (HW/SW) systems. .

https://www.offis.de/en/offis/project/complex.html
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/247999

Period:
2019-2013 (40 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
247999
Call:
FP7-ICT-2009-4, ICT-2009.3.4 - Embedded Systems Design
Role:
Principal Investigator of POLIMI

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• OFFIS (DE)
• Thales (FR)
• Imec (NL)
• CoWare (NL)
• Magillem (FR)
• ST-PoliTO (IT)
• GMV (ES)
• ChipVision (DE)
• STM (IT)
• PoliTO (IT)
• EDALab (FR)

Towards EXtreme scale Technologies and Accelerators for euROhpc hw/Sw Supercomputing Applications for exascale

The MULTICUBE project focuses on the definition of an automatic multi-objective Design Space Exploration (DSE) framework to be used to tune today’s and future’s embedded system architectures, based on complex Multi-Processors System on Chip (MPSoC). In the purpose of developing tools and methodologies easy to be extended even for other future’s embedded architectures, the optimization framework defined within the project is organized to be versatile and easily extendible via the definition of a clear method to allow the integration of different exploration and evaluation tools. During research and development activities both aspect of "Performance Evaluation tools" and "optimization tools" are targeted.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/216693

Period:
2008-2010 (30 months)
Grant Agreement nr.:
216693
Call:
FP7-ICT-2007-1-216693, ICT-2007.3.3 - Embedded systems design
Role:
Workpackage Leader

Partners:

• POLIMI (IT)
• ALARI (CH)
• ... (IT)