Project description Advanced Computing, embedded and Control Systems Show the project objective Hide the project objective The ADEPT project will address the challenge of energy-efficient use of parallel technologies. ADEPT will build on the expertise of software developers from high-performance computing (HPC) to exploit parallelism for performance, and on the expertise of Embedded systems engineers in managing energy usage. ADEPT will develop a tool that will guide software developers and help them to model and predict the power consumption and performance of parallel software and hardware.The strength of the HPC world lies primarily in software application parallelisation: concurrent computation is used to speed-up the overall time an application requires run to completion. As a result, HPC software developers are also experts in parallel performance analysis and performance optimisation. The Embedded systems sector on the other hand excels in its management of energy usage because they are often constrained by fixed power and energy budgets. The strengths of one sector are the relative weakness of the other: power management and power efficiency in HPC are in their infancy, but they are becoming increasingly important with HPC systems requiring more and more power; and while continuing to be constrained by energy and power budgets, recent advances in low-power multi-core processors have widened the choice of hardware architectures for Embedded systems and are increasingly forcing Embedded programmers to use parallel computing techniques that are more familiar to HPC programmers.ADEPT will investigate the implications of parallelism in programming models and algorithms, as well as choice of hardware, on energy and power consumption. It is important to gain a clear understanding of how factors such as redundant computations or algorithmic choices affect the power profile of a parallel application, or how this profile can be modified in a predictable way by off-loading compute-intensive parts of an application to low-power hardware. ADEPT will progress the state-of-the-art in application profiling, performance, and energy usage modelling in order to build a tool that integrates performance and energy consumption modelling for parallel Embedded and HPC systems.ADEPT will advance the knowledge on how parallel software and hardware uses power. Being able to reduce the amount of power that is required to run large-scale applications on a HPC system will have an significant impact on the total cost of ownership and on the carbon-footprint of such a system. ADEPT will also increase programmer productivity by creating a tool that will be able to rapidly predict both the performance and the power usage of parallel systems, greatly reducing the need for speculative implementations to answer "what if?" questions during the software development process. This will enable developers to make informed decisions with regards to hardware and software implementation that are economically viable in terms of performance and cost. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware developmentsocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applications Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.3.4 - Advanced computing, embedded and control systems Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH EU contribution € 925 135,00 Address OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh United Kingdom See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Michele Weiland (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITEIT GENT Belgium EU contribution € 560 956,00 Address SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 9000 Gent See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nathalie Vandepitte (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UPPSALA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution € 574 538,00 Address VON KRAEMERS ALLE 4 751 05 Uppsala See on map Region Östra Sverige Östra Mellansverige Uppsala län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Erik Hagersten (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ERICSSON AB Sweden EU contribution € 304 468,00 Address TORSHAMNSGATAN 23 164 80 Stockholm See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Erik Berg (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ALPHA DATA PARALLEL SYSTEMS LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 353 903,00 Address WEST SILVERMILLS LANE EH3 5BD EDINBURGH See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Graham Smart (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data