Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the Rising STARS research and development program, the outcomes of the project are expected to impact several domains from HPC specific topics to critical real-time systems. Moreover, thanks to a strong partnership between academic and industrial partners, the various case studies will help to strengthen the competitiveness and growth of European companies by providing competitive technology demonstration, with a world-wide visibility, promoting the potential of these innovations to enable world-leading science. This co-design approach will eventually lead to the delivery of these innovations to the market with the added value of a credible path to deliver an application specific solution using them with access to the corresponding reusable tools / extensions.
On the academic side, the Rising STARS partners, through the development of new solutions to drive AO systems, at the core of the telescope operations, is thus expected to have a critical impact on the astronomical instrumentation community. On top of this, the case study on SKA and the strong collaboration with Australian partners already involved in this project would provide European radio-astronomer a prime access to this major facility and would provide European high-tech companies, such as Kalray and Thales, new business opportunities and prime exposure on a world leading scientific facility.
On the private sector side, we expect significant outcomes for the various partners of the project. Concerning Microgate, the marketing strategy foresees to address first the market niche related to AO and approach other markets, in particular the fast image processing required by biomedical science and by some industrial and automotive applications. Many Thales Group’s operational Business Units (GBUs) need to achieve HPC and critical real-time all at once on embedded systems. The convergence of these needs, that should be addressed by the evolution of a standardised, portable and friendly-user parallel programming model could be quickly and efficiently exploited by GBUs. Rising STARS represents also an excellent opportunity to allow KALRAY to increase the real-time capabilities of the MPPA by enhancing its software development kit (based on OpenMP) with new dedicated real-time and data transfer and acquisition extensions. Finally, the Rising STARS project will contribute significantly to the business growth of ArianeGroup in Australia and to and to identify new business opportunities with major satellites operators in the area thanks to enhanced sky coverage enabled by new cooperations with Australian scientists and Universities.
