Latest Projects

RECIPE (REliable power and time-ConstraInts-aware Predictive management of heterogeneous Exascale systems) is a new FETHPC-02-2017 – Transition to Exascale Computing – project lead by Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria with a total funding of 3,285,300 €.

SafeCOP (April 2016 - March 2019) 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.

M2DC (Jan 2016 - Dec 2018) 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.

The essential objective of MANGO (Oct 2015 - Sept 2018) 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.

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 (Oct 2013 - Nov 2016) will complement these important activities with an analysis and segregation along the extra-functional properties real-time, power, temperature and reliability.

Application requirements, power, and technological constraints are driving the architectural convergence of future processors towards heterogeneous many-cores. This development is confronted with variability challenges, mainly the susceptibility to time-dependent variations in silicon devices. Increasing guard-bands to battle variations is not scalable, due to the too large worst-case cost impact for technology nodes around 10 nm. The goal of HARPA (Sept 2013 - Aug 2016) was 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.

The mission of SMECY (Febr 2010 - Febr 2013) is to develop new programming technologies enabling the exploitation of many (100s) core architectures. The goal of this ARTEMIS project is to launch an ambitious European initiative to match initiatives in Asia and USA and to enable Europe to become the leader.