The focus of the project is on a joint security and power optimisation of IoT devices. The LAMP team is composed by Davide Zoni, Andrea Galimberti, Giovanni Scotti and William Fornaciari. The final presentation event took place on December 11 th , 2019.

TAFFO is intended as a tool to help programmers exploit fixed point computation in their code.

You can download it and compile it from our official repository. You can use it with the LLVM compiler toolchain.

Between mid October and mid January, Federico will work in Prof. Guo’s Real-Time & Intelligent Systems Lab to deepen his knowledge on Probabilistic Mixed-Criticality Systems.

What is an HiPEAC Collaboration Grant?

Every year, HiPEAC funds several collaboration grants for HiPEAC PhD students and junior post-doctoral researchers wanting to visit another HiPEAC institution (either an academic institution or a company). The students and their host prepare a small research project for the stay (hence the topic is defined by the students and their hosts). The steering committee decides on the final allocation of the collaboration grants – based on the quality of the proposals.

He has been extremely open to hear our experiences, ambitions, suggestions…overall it has been a fantastic opportunity to meet a very open-minded Rector! Thank you!

Abstract

For the last two decades, software engineering organizations have debated the relative merits of their chosen methodology to perform the software development life-cycle. The most prominent of these discussions being between so called “Agile” and, on the other hand, “Waterfall” based principles. So now in 2019, we have a clear choice between the two?  In reality the picture today is more mixed than this simple choice, as we will discover.  In this talk we will explore the principles and then the methodologies they inspire in real world software development projects.  Focusing on the practical application of these within space applications and the unique challenges faced within the space software environment.

Biography

Thomas Dell is the Lead Software Engineer at D-Orbit SpA. His academic background is in Electronic Engineering, where he graduated with a masters degree from Southampton University.  Having always had a passion for computers since an early age, he tailored his studies towards embedded software – where software development meets the hardware.  He has worked in the motorsports industry for 5 years; developing, testing and deploying software for control systems in Formula 1, Formula E, NASCAR and others.  Now working within the space sector for D-Orbit, he is responsible for the flight segment software development.

During the first day, the consortium presented the final outcome of the six use cases, including a live demonstration of the Maritime Robotics autonomous vessels. During the second day, the technical management team presented the main conclusions and scientific findings to the reviewers and project officer.

They are there representing a much wider POLIMI – HEAP Lab team which includes also Prof Giovanni Agosta, Luca Cremona, Federico Reghenzani, Dr Francesca Rossi, Dr Federico Terraneo, Michele Zanella and Dr Davide Zoni.

EATON’s main building hosts the MANGO cluster, that is a set of 192 FPGAs in 16 Heterogeneous Nodes (HN) connected to 8 servers (General purpose Nodes, GN) where the BBQ open source Runtime Resource Manager (BarbequeRTRM) developed at POLIMI – HEAP Lab runs.

EATON has designed a specific cabinet to ensure the high availability of the MANGO infrastructure throughout the project and the possibility to remotely monitor its hardware and cooling status. In addition to this, during the MANGO project, EATON developed new power distribution bars and EPFL proposed the use of a thermosiphon for the cooling of chips. Both have been tested during the project by EATON.

As POLIMI – HEAP Lab we are proud to say that, in the final demo, the BarbequeRTRM we put forward is capable of managing the resource allocation of multiple applications onto such heterogeneous architectures, balancing performance, resource exploitation and power consumption.

All welcome and no registration is needed.

Abstract

The use of wireless networks in real-time applications is a challenging research area, motivated by current research and industry trends such as Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT.
In this talk, Federico Terraneo presents Time Deterministc Multi-Hop (TDMH), a networking protocol stack designed from the ground up for real-time wirelss networks.
TDMH exploits state-of-the-art clock synchronization and constructive interference flooding to build a continuously updated graph of the network topology. A centralized scheduler maps data streams onto the network graph. Nodes communicate using TDMA without channel access contention. TDMH exposes to applications a connection-oriented, bounded latency communication model.

The poster entitled “Fixed Point Exploitation via Compiler Analyses and Transformations” results from a joint work coordinated by our own Prof Giampaolo Agosta and PhD student Stefanix Cherubin.

From left to right: Antonio Di Bello, Daniele Cattaneo, Michele Chiari, Giovanni Agosta, Stefano Cherubin