Harnessing Performance Variability
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
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Call for proposals
FP7-ICT-2013-10
Main participants
Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava / IT4Innovations
Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
MSMT-42111/2013
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Harnessing Performance Variability
Annotation in Czech
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. The HARPA solution employs a cross-layer approach. A middleware implements a control engine that steers software/hardware knobs based on information from strategically dispersed monitors. Thisengine relies on technology models to identify/exploit various types of platform slack - performance, power/energy, thermal, lifetime, and structural (hardware) - to restore timing guarantees and ensure the expected lifetime amidst time-dependent variations. Dependable-Performance is critical for embedded applications to provide timing correctness; for high-performance applications, it is paramount to ensure load balancing in parallel phases and fast execution of sequential phases. The lifetime requirement has ramifications on the manufacturing process cost and the number of field-returns. The HARPA novelty is in seeking synergies in techniques that have been considered virtually exclusively in the embedded or high-performance domains (worst-case guaranteed partly proactive techniques in embedded, and dynamic best-effort reactive techniques in high-performance). HARPA will demonstrate the benefits of merging concepts from these two domains by evaluating key applications from both segments running onembedded and high-performance platforms.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
CEP classification - main branch
IN - Informatics
CEP - secondary branch
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CEP - another secondary branch
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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Sep 1, 2013
Realization period - end
Aug 31, 2016
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Feb 26, 2016
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP17-MSM-7E-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jun 20, 2017
Finance
Total approved costs
1,592 thou. CZK
Public financial support
1,592 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK