FP7: FET Proactive Intiative: Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit (MINECC)
NEWS
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FP7 Call 8 FET Proactive was launched on 26 July2011
Deadline for submission of proposals was 17 January 2012. - FP7 Call 8 website with all info for proposers, including the SPECIFIC: "Guides for Applicants FET PROACTIVE ONLY"
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A CAll 8 FET PROACTIVE INFORMATION DAY was held on 12 October 2011 in Brussels.
The day will provice first-hand information on the Call 8 objectives, as well as contractual, legal and administrative modalities. The formation of consortia and synergies will be facilitated through an open exchange "Proposers' Forum". AGENDA & given presentations - PRE-PROPOSAL check has closed: The Commission offered a pre-proposal assessment service to check on the appropriateness of research proposals and the eligibility of consortia. Pre-proposals were accepted at any time up to four weeks before the close of the call (17 January 2012).
- "Green ICT, towards Zero Power ICT": CHIST-ERA will call for proposals in autumn 2011:
- Low consumption devices (new processor design, new computing paradigm)
- Energy efficient system (hardware and software), architecture
- Energy Harvesting
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ICT PROPOSERS' Day- 19-20 May 2011, Budapest (HU)
- Commission presentation on "MINECC" given at Network Session
- "MINECC" Research & Technology offers & demands on ICT Proposers' Day
- The ZEROPOWER Coordination Action web site.
- A networking session " Energy efficient ICT: toward zero-power devices for a greener planet" took place at the ICT2010 conference, 28th September 2010 in Brussels. Organized by Prof. Luca Gammaitoni, University of Perugia, this session brought together European experts at the cutting-edge of developing efficient low-power ICT devices that harvest most of their energy from the environment.
WHAT IS "Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit (MINECC)"
Extract of the ICT Work Programme 2011-2012 - Objective ICT-2011-.9.8
The energy consumption of computing technologies becomes more and more an obstacle to realizing new functionalities in, for instance, mobile or distributed applications, and limits performance. It also has an increasing impact on energy supply and environment. Since energy efficiency of today's technologies is orders of magnitude above the theoretical limits, disruptive solutions and radically new approaches are needed to close this gap.
Target outcomes
Proposals should lay the foundations for radically new technologies for computation that strive for the theoretical limits in energy consumption while maintaining or even enhancing functionality and performance. At least one of the following outcomes should be addressed:
- New elementary devices and inter-device-communication mechanisms operating at the limits of minimum energy consumption.
- Novel computing paradigms with radically improved energy efficiency. Examples include approaches inspired by biology, post-Boolean logics and computing under uncertainty, randomness and unreliability as a result of low-energy device properties.
- Software models and programming methodologies supporting the strive for the energetic limit (e. g. energy cost awareness or exploiting the trade-off between energy and performance/precision).
Proposals should aim for a proof of concept and investigate the viability of the approach. The expected energy gain should be indicated, and the proposal should foresee appropriate energy pmetrics or benchmarks for verification.
Expected impact
- Understanding of theoretical limits of energy efficiency in computation (e.g. energy dissipation, thermodynamic and quantum physics limits)
- Foundations of computing technologies with negligible energy consumption
- Reduction of the environmental impact caused by the energy consumption of ICT.
Funding scheme
- STREP
Indicative budget distribution
- € 15 million
Extract ICT-FET in the FP7 Work Programme 2011-2012 ( 240KB), including the specific "FET eligibility, evaluation, selection and award criteria".
TIMETABLE ICT FP7 Call 8
- Call open:26 July 2011
- Call deadline: 17th January 2012, 17:00 Brussels local time
- Tentative: Evaluation: March 2012
- Tentative: Invitation to negotiations: April 2012
- Tentative: Start of projects : summer 2012
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS
Expert Consultation Workshop "Disruptive Solutions for Energy Efficient ICT", 8-9 February 2010 in Brussels:
Please find here below the Report and the Written Contributions
- REPORT consultatin workshop: ( 124KB)
- Written contributions ( 325KB)
RELATED INITIATIVES
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FP7: Towards Zero-Power ICT - ZEROPOWER COORDINATION ACTION home page
Seven research proposals were received for evaluation in Call 5, "Towards Zero-Power ICT". They requested a total EC contribution of € 17 million for addressing both fundamental scientific and technological challenges. Three out of four projects above threshold will be funded consuming nearly completely the budget of 7 Mio. €. SINAPS will employ semiconductor nanowires both for energy harvesting of electromagnetic radiation and for (bio-) chemical sensing. NANOPOWER will investigate the fundamentals of energy harvesting at the nano-scale by using piezoelectric nonlinear vibration, guided phonon transport and Buttiker-Landauer motors. GREEN SILICON will harvest energy from temperature gradients with zero-, one- and two-dimensional silicon silicon-germanium superlattices. The planned starting date is 1st of August, 2010. Additional information about these projects will be made available here soon.
EVENTS
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A CAll 8 FET PROACTIVE INFORMATION DAY was held on 12 October 2011 in Brussels.
-
ICT PROPOSERS' Day - 19-20 May 2011, Budapest (HU)
- Commission presentation on "MINECC" given at Network Session
- "MINECC" Research & Technology offers & demands on ICT Proposers' Day - A networking session " Energy efficient ICT: toward zero-power devices for a greener planet" took place at the ICT2010 conference, 28th September 2010 in Brussels. Organized by Prof. Luca Gammaitoni, University of Perugia, this session brought together European experts at the cutting-edge of developing efficient low-power ICT devices that harvest most of their energy from the environment.