Descripción del proyecto
Aplicaciones industriales optimizadas para pymes
Una amplia gama de servicios basados en tecnología avanzada se apoya en las nuevas aplicaciones de la informática de alto rendimiento (HPC, por sus siglas en inglés). Para soportar la creciente demanda de potencia de procesamiento, los futuros sistemas de HPC necesitan aceleradores. Una solución prometedora es el uso de dispositivos de matriz de compuertas programables en campo (FPGA, por sus siglas en inglés) que pueden reconfigurarse en cualquier momento, ejecutando aceleradores de aplicaciones a medida. En el proyecto OPTIMA, financiado con fondos europeos e impulsado por pymes, se utilizarán sistemas del HPC llenos de FPGA para desarrollar varias aplicaciones industriales y un conjunto de bibliotecas de código abierto con una eficiencia energética significativamente mayor. El proyecto hará posible que las pymes superen a la competencia al ejecutar sus solicitudes de forma más eficiente. En última instancia, esto demostrará la posición pionera de la Unión Europea en el desarrollo de sistemas del HPC llenos de FPGA y aplicaciones/bibliotecas.
Objetivo
In order to support the expanding demands for processing power from emerging HPC applications, within a pragmatic energy envelope, the future HPC systems will incorporate accelerators. One promising approach, towards this end, is the utilization of FPGAs; the main advantage of those devices is that, since they can be reconfigured at any time so as to implement tailor-made application accelerators, their energy efficiency and/or performance, in most of the cases, is much higher than that of CPUs and GPUs.
OPTIMA is an SME-driven project aiming to port and optimize a number of industrial applications as well as a set of open-source libraries, utilized in at least 3 different application domains, to two novel FPGA-populated HPC systems, utilizing several innovative programming environments. It is expected that the applications and the libraries will be executed, in those heterogeneous HPC systems at significantly higher energy-efficiency as described by the Energy Delay Product metric (EDP); in particular, the EDP of the OPTIMA applications and libraries when executed on the targeted FPGA-based HPC systems, is expected to be more than 10x higher than that triggered by CPU-based systems and more than 3x higher than the GPU-based ones.
The main outcomes of OPTIMA will be that: a) the participating SMEs will gain a significant advantage since they will be able to execute their applications much more efficiently than the competition, b) it will be further proved that Europe is at the forefront of developing efficient FPGA-populated HPC systems and application/libraries taking advantage of them, c) the open-source libraries as well as the open-source applications developed within OPTIMA will allow third parties to easily target FPGA-based HPC systems for their application developments, d) there will be an open-to-use HPC infrastructure supported by a specially formed sustainability body.
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