Further increase the energy efficiency of the system
In order to reach exascale performance current High Performance Computer (HPC) servers need to be improved. Simple scaling is not a feasible solution due to the increasing utility costs and power consumption limitations.
Brief summary
Apart from improvements in implementation technology, what is needed is to refine the HPC application development as well as the architecture of the future HPC systems.
ECOSCALE tackles this challenge by employing a scalable programming environment and hardware architecture tailored to the characteristics and trends of current and future HPC applications, reducing significantly the data traffic as well as the energy consumption and delays.
Objectives
ECOSCALE follows a holistic approach providing a novel heterogeneous energy-efficient hierarchical architecture, a hybrid MPI+OpenCL programming environment and a runtime system. The ECOSCALE architecture, programming model and runtime system follows a hierarchical approach where the system is partitioned into multiple autonomous Workers (i.e. compute nodes). Workers are interconnected in a tree-like structure in order to form larger Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) partitions, which are further hierarchically interconnected via an MPI protocol.
To further increase the energy efficiency of the system as well as its resilience, the ECOSCALE Workers will employ reconfigurable accelerators that can perform coherent memory accesses in the virtual address space utilizing an IOMMU. The ECOSCALE architecture will support shared partitioned reconfigurable resources accessed by any Worker in a PGAS partition, and, more importantly, automated hardware synthesis of these resources from an OpenCL-based programming model.
Main issues of acciona in the project
- Development of a computer vision application which operates in the Smart-City context.
- Provide more efficient and sustainable resources for the cities during their growth based on the information provided by the citizens and/or extracted by monitoring their habits.
- Protection of Personal Data.
- The application will be available through Internet services and provides parameters related to city traffic density for improving the flow of vehicles in large spaces (e.g., cities).
Duration
01/10/2015-30/09/2018 (36 months)
Consortium
- Telecommunication Systems Institute (TSI), Greece
- Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom
- STMicroelectronics (STM), France
- Acciona, Spain
- University of Manchester (MAN), United Kingdom
- Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), Italy
- Chalmers University of Technology (CHAL), Sweden
- Synelixis (SYN), Greece
