Modular Microserver DataCentre

Deliverables

Documents, reports (20)

Final hardware and application benchmarking results

D5.2 update

Intermediate report about energy-aware workload management

Results of T4.5

Assessment of M2DC appliances and their impact on various classes of applications and computing infrastructures

Evaluation of TCO improvements as well as performance, energy and reliability of M2DC appliances along with their on data centres (T6.7)

Intermediate report about resource and thermal management

D4.1 update

M2DC Appliances specification

Summary of appliance specification from T1.5 with a focus on integration of hardware, middleware and applications

Second Dissemination Plan and Report

Second report on M2DC dissemination activities

Final report about resource and thermal management

T4.4 results

Final report on dedicated high-speed communication network

D3.1 update

First report about resource and thermal management

Results of T4.4

Final report on system efficiency enhancements design and use

D3.3 update

Final report on system efficiency enhancements base configuration and middleware

D3.2 update

Report on the use of built-in system efficiency and dependability enhancement mechanisms

Results of T5.5

Final Dissemination Report

Final report on M2DC dissemination activities

Final report about energy-aware workload management

D4.5 update

Report about integration into existing data centres and cloud management systems

Interfaces, APIs and middleware for integration with data centres from T4.3

M2DC collaboration tools and dissemination channels

Description of M2DC collaboration tools and dissemination channels (e.g. project website, social media, etc.)

First Dissemination Plan and Report

First report on M2DC dissemination activities

Application-optimised appliances

Report on setup and optimization of basic appliance infrastructure for application appliances (T6.3,T6.4,T6.5,T6.6)

Second report on testbed deployment and maintenance

D5.1 update

Report on the application implementation, analysis, and evaluation

Results from T5.4

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (4)

Final prototype of resource-efficient microserver modules

Final prototype of resource-efficient microserver modules

First prototype of the generic M2DC appliance

Presentation of the basic appliance infrastructure as a basis for application-optimized appliances (T6.1,T6.2)

Final prototype of the next-generation microserver system

Final prototype of the next-generation microserver system

Final M2DC turnkey appliances

Presentation of the turnkey appliances, based on D6.1

Publications

Book chapters (5)

M2DC—A Novel Heterogeneous Hyperscale Microserver Platform

Author(s): Ariel Oleksiak, Michal Kierzynka, Wojciech Piatek, Micha vor dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Stefan Krupop, Mario Porrmann, Jens Hagemeyer, René Griessl, Meysam Peykanu, Lennart Tigges, Sven Rosinger, Daniel Schlitt, Christian Pieper, Udo Janssen, Holm Rauchfuss, Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, Carlo Brandolese, William Fornaciari, Gerardo Pelosi, Joao Pita Costa, Mariano Cecowski, Robert P
Published in: Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers, 2019, Page(s) 109-128
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92792-3_6

Merging the Publish-Subscribe Pattern with the Shared Memory Paradigm

Author(s): Loïc Cudennec
Published in: Euro-Par 2018: Parallel Processing Workshops - Euro-Par 2018 International Workshops, Turin, Italy, August 27-28, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Issue 11339, 2019, Page(s) 469-480
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10549-5_37

Software-Distributed Shared Memory over Heterogeneous Micro-server Architecture

Author(s): Loïc Cudennec
Published in: Euro-Par 2017: Parallel Processing Workshops - Euro-Par 2017 International Workshops, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28-29, 2017, Revised Selected Papers, Issue 10659, 2018, Page(s) 366-377
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75178-8_30

Comparison-Based Attacks Against Noise-Free Fully Homomorphic Encryption Schemes

Author(s): Alessandro Barenghi, Nicholas Mainardi, Gerardo Pelosi
Published in: Information and Communications Security - 20th International Conference, ICICS 2018, Lille, France, October 29-31, 2018, Proceedings, Issue 11149, 2018, Page(s) 177-191
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01950-1_11

Accelerating Automotive Analytics: The M2DC Appliance Approach

Author(s): Giovanni Agosta, Carlo Brandolese, William Fornaciari, Nicholas Mainardi, Gerardo Pelosi, Federico Reghenzani, Michele Zanella, Gaetan Des Courchamps, Vincent Ducrot, Kevin Juilly, Sébastien Monot, Luca Ceva
Published in: Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation - 19th International Conference, SAMOS 2019, Samos, Greece, July 7–11, 2019, Proceedings, Issue 11733, 2019, Page(s) 455-469
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27562-4_33

Conference proceedings (13)

Data centres for IoT applications: The M2DC approach (Invited paper)

Author(s): Michal Kierzynka Ariel Oleksiak, Giovanni Agosta, Carlo Brandolese, William Fornaciari, Gerardo Pelosi, Micha vor dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Stefan Krupop, Mariano Cecowski, Robert Plestenjak, Justin Cinkelj, Mario Porrmann, Jens Hagemeyer, Rene Griessl, Meysam Peykanu, Lennart Tigges, Loic Cudennec, Thierry Goubier, Jean-Marc Philippe, Sven Rosinger, Daniel Schlitt, Christian Pieper, Chris A
Published in: 2016 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS), 2016, Page(s) 293-299
DOI: 10.1109/SAMOS.2016.7818361

The M2DC Project: Modular Microserver DataCentre

Author(s): Mariano Cecowski, Giovanni Agosta, Ariel Oleksiak, Michal Kierzynka, Micha vor dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Stefan Krupop, Mario Porrmann, Jens Hagemeyer, Rene Griessl, Meysam Peykanu, Lennart Tigges, Sven Rosinger, Daniel Schlitt, Christian Pieper, Carlo Brandolese, William Fornaciari, Gerardo Pelosi, Robert Plestenjak, Justin Cinkelj, Loic Cudennec, Thierry Goubier, Jean-Marc Philippe, Udo Ja
Published in: 2016 Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), 2016, Page(s) 68-74
DOI: 10.1109/DSD.2016.76

An unsupervised approach for automotive driver identification

Author(s): Nicholas Mainardi, Michele Zanella, Federico Reghenzani, Niccoló Raspa, Carlo Brandolese
Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on INTelligent Embedded Systems Architectures and Applications - INTESA '18, 2018, Page(s) 51-52
DOI: 10.1145/3285017.3285023

OpenCL HLS Based Design of FPGA Accelerators for Cryptographic Primitives

Author(s): Alessandro Barenghi, Michele Madaschi, Nicholas Mainardi, Gerardo Pelosi
Published in: 2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 2018, Page(s) 634-641
DOI: 10.1109/HPCS.2018.00105

Side-channel security of superscalar CPUs : Evaluating the Impact of Micro-architectural Features

Author(s): Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi
Published in: 2018 55th ACM/ESDA/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6
DOI: 10.1109/dac.2018.8465784

Proactive Workload Management for Bare Metal Deployment on Microservers

Author(s): Daniel Schlitt, Christian Pieper, Wolfgang Nebel
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, 2018, Page(s) 246-253
DOI: 10.5220/0006762202460253

Influence of segmentation on deep iris recognition performance

Author(s): Jus Lozej, Dejan Stepec, Vitomir Struc, Peter Peer
Published in: 2019 7th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), 2019, Page(s) 1-6
DOI: 10.1109/iwbf.2019.8739225

Automated instantiation of side-channel attacks countermeasures for software cipher implementations

Author(s): Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers - CF '16, 2016, Page(s) 455-460
DOI: 10.1145/2903150.2911707

Minimising energy costs of data centers using high dense heterogeneous systems and intelligent resource management

Author(s): Ariel Oleksiak, Tomasz Ciesielczyk, Michal Kierzynka, Wojciech Piatek
Published in: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems - e-Energy '18, 2018, Page(s) 499-505
DOI: 10.1145/3208903.3213777

Data Center Performance Model for Evaluating Load Dependent Energy Efficiency

Author(s): Daniel Schlitt, Wolfgang Nebel
Published in: Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016, 2016
DOI: 10.2991/ict4s-16.2016.6

Intelligent thermal management in M2DC system

Author(s): Wojciech Piatek, Ariel Oleksiak, Micha vor dem Berge, Jens Hagemeyer, Emmanuel Senechal
Published in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Future Energy Systems - e-Energy '17, 2017, Page(s) 309-315
DOI: 10.1145/3077839.3084029

Encasing block ciphers to foil key recovery attempts via side channel

Author(s): Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi, Michele Scandale
Published in: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design - ICCAD '16, 2016, Page(s) 1-8
DOI: 10.1145/2966986.2967033

From CPU to FPGA — Acceleration of self-organizing maps for data mining

Author(s): Jan Lachmair, Thomas Mieth, Rene Griessl, Jens Hagemeyer, Mario Porrmann
Published in: 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017, Page(s) 4299-4308
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7966400

Peer reviewed articles (2)

M2DC – Modular Microserver DataCentre with heterogeneous hardware

Author(s): Ariel Oleksiak, Michal Kierzynka, Wojciech Piatek, Giovanni Agosta, Alessandro Barenghi, Carlo Brandolese, William Fornaciari, Gerardo Pelosi, Mariano Cecowski, Robert Plestenjak, Justin Činkelj, Mario Porrmann, Jens Hagemeyer, René Griessl, Jan Lachmair, Meysam Peykanu, Lennart Tigges, Micha vor dem Berge, Wolfgang Christmann, Stefan Krupop, Alexandre Carbon, Loïc Cudennec, Thierry Goubier, Je
Published in: Microprocessors and Microsystems, Issue 52, 2017, Page(s) 117-130, ISSN 0141-9331
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpro.2017.05.019

A Comprehensive Side-Channel Information Leakage Analysis of an In-Order RISC CPU Microarchitecture

Author(s): Davide Zoni, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi, William Fornaciari
Published in: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Issue 23/5, 2018, Page(s) 1-30, ISSN 1084-4309
DOI: 10.1145/3212719