Project description Computing SystemsDesigning a new cost and energy efficient server architecture called the 3D server-on-a-chip Show the project objective Hide the project objective "Cloud Computing" refers to the emerging environment providing software and hardware services over the Internet or Cloud on demand. These services are provided to millions of Cloud users, in particular Mobile users, by thousands of servers in the data centres. Server power consumption and costs are becoming a great concern in the data centres in which the servers are built with high end, expensive and power-hungry CPUs. We are now reaching the limit of voltage scaling preventing further power reductions. In the absence of voltage scaling, chips in the future may have hundreds of cores, but to maintain a power envelope, these cores have to be embedded cores having orders of magnitude lower power consumption.Server applications are rich with client-request and memory-level parallelism. Each client is primarily served by a simple core with high-bandwidth/low-latency access to memory. 3D-stacking of on-chip DRAM on many embedded cores will provide high memory bandwidth with less power consumption while enabling scalability for green future servers.We propose EuroCloud - 3D "Server-on-Chip" built using many ARM cores and integrating 3D DRAM to provide a very dense low power server, and targeting the Cloud workloads. EuroCloud targets 10x improvement in cost- and energy-efficiency compared to current state-of-the-art servers. This will scale to hundreds of cores in a single server, and make a 1M core data centre feasible in the future. Thus, designing the 3D Server-on-Chip will provide us with capabilities to build super-efficient, environmentally clean and compact data centres in Europe aiming at green Cloud services. Thus, pioneering the green data centres will further strengthen the European leadership and excellence in green computing. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternet Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2009.3.6 - Computing Systems Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2009-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator ARM LIMITED Address Fulbourn road 110 CB1 9NJ Cambridge United Kingdom See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bruno Jansen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window EU contribution € 1 318 158,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM Belgium EU contribution € 676 439,00 Address Kapeldreef 75 3001 Leuven See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Christine Van Houtven (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Switzerland EU contribution € 456 999,00 Address Batiment ce 3316 station 1 1015 Lausanne See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Vaud Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Babak Falsafi (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS Cyprus EU contribution € 498 417,00 Address Avenue panepistimiou 2109 aglantzi 1678 Nicosia See on map Region Κύπρος Κύπρος Κύπρος Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Yiannakis Sazeides (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window NOKIA OYJ Participation ended Finland EU contribution € 206 805,00 Address Karaportti 3 02610 Espoo See on map Region Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact June Juhn Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CANCER RESEARCH UK LBG United Kingdom EU contribution € 135 182,00 Address 2 redman place E20 1JQ London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Liz Heselwood Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window