HiPEAC Vision: “Keep it simple for humans and let the computer do the hard work”
Information technology has a tremendous impact on our everyday lives, how we work, how we play, how we travel, how we interact with others. It plays a central role in solving the challenges of modern society. Starting from application and industry trends, with technological constraints, the HiPEAC document identifies seven technical challenges (Performance, Performance/€ or Performance/Watt/€, Power and Energy, Managing system complexity, Security, Reliability, Timing Predictability). They form the creed of the HiPEAC vision "keep it simple for humans, and let the computer do the hard work" and its consequences such as the need for more domain specific concurrent and timing aware programming languages, component-based hardware design, and abstraction layers to shield software from ever faster changing hardware. The document ends with a SWOT analysis of the computing systems industry in Europe, and recommendations for research objectives. The 50 pages vision document is now illustrated by a 10 min movie highlighting the technical challenges and the potential solutions promoted by HiPEAC. It features interviews of Mateo Valero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Alasdair Rawsthorne (University of Manchester), Krisztian Flautner (ARM), Ronald Van Pelt (Bull), Christoph Kutter (Infineon), Rudy Lauwereins (imec), Paul Heysters (Recore Systems), Erick Lansard (Thalès), Mathieu Goudsmits (Irdeto), Martijn de Lange (ACE), Ahmed Jerraya (CEA LETI), Bjorn de Sutter (Ghent University), Sami Yehia (TRT) and Christian Bertin (STMicroelectronics). The HiPEAC vision package is available at: http://www.hipeac.net/roadmap(opens in new window) and can be freely reused as long as the references to HiPEAC are preserved. It consists of: • A 10 min movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl9voztogEM(opens in new window) • A slide set http://www.hipeac.net/system/files/hipeacvisionpresentation.pdf(opens in new window) • A document http://www.hipeac.net/system/files/hipeacvision.pdf(opens in new window)
Countries
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom