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ITEA2: a potential framework for developing
industrial HPC applications and infrastructures
Gérard Roucairol - Vice-Chairman ITEA 2
ITEA2: a EUREKA ICT Cluster
Success Patterns
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
Technical state-of-the-union address
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• Bottom up : Vision, Strategic Research Agenda & Roadmap
• Core Group of Global Players
• Large Community of SMEs, Universities and Academic
Research Institutes
• Well defined Organisation (Industry // Public Authorities):
Board//DC, Board Support Group//AC, Steering Group, Office
• Well defined Processes: Calls, POs, FPPs, Labelling, Funding,
Reviews, Exhibition & Award Competition
ITEA 2 - 2
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
The initiators of ITEA 2
Technical state-of-the-union address
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• The ITEA 2 Board members are:
Airbus, Alcatel, Barco, Bosch, Bull, DaimlerChrysler,
European Federation of High Tech SMEs, Nokia, Philips,
Siemens, Telvent, Thales and Thomson.
• The combined 2004 totals of this group are:
– Total turn-over: €380 billion
– Total R&D spend: €29 billion
– Total no. of employees: 1.5+ million of which 210.000 in R&D
(12% of Europe’s total number of researchers)
ITEA 2 - 3
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
There’s growing interest in ITEA
Technical state-of-the-union address
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Person-years over time
Project Outline Proposals
(in person-years)
1600
1432
1400
1272
1261
1200
1581
1164
1062
1096
5969
913
1000
800
3094
600
400
212
200
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Forecast September 2006
ITEA 2 - 4
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
Growing ITEA community
Technical state-of-the-union address
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25 countries
countries
25
540 partners
partners in
in 86
86 projects
projects
540
26%
(20%)
28%
(64%)
46%
(16%)
SME
Research institutes & universities
Large industries
( ) : effort
Status September 2006
ITEA 2 - 5
ITEA in numbers
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
Technical state-of-the-union address
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Effort top countries
Exploitation
94% total
450
France
31 %
Netherlands
Spain
Finland
Germany
Belgium
Italy
19 %
11 %
10 %
9%
8%
7%
No. of expected product references
185
No. of expected OEM references
No. of expected results used for internal purposes
Standardisation
150
120
No. of expected licenses to be sold by partners
60
No. of open source
30
No. of standardisation actions launched
20
No. of actions in progress
100
No. of actions issued or published
Dissemination
55
30
Publications & Conferences
1,650
Project websites
55
ITEA 2 - 6
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
Vision
Technical state-of-the-union address
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‘Europe to maintain leadership in Software-intensive Systems and
Services building on key European strengths and industries’
Solutions / Services
Differentiation Software
Communications Infrastructure
Real-Time
Infrastructure
Recognising and responding to:
• the move from a product-oriented to a services-oriented world
• ‘time-to-market’, i.e. INNOVATION, is make or break
• the even more crucial role of SMEs and Academia
• strong ERA cooperation being mandatory (seizing FP7 opportunity)
• digital convergence is name of the game
ITEA 2 - 7
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
Executing the vision: the roadmap
Technical state-of-the-union address
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Domains
Cyber
Enterprise
Home
Services &
Software
Creation
Intermediation
Services &
Infrastructures
Nomadic
Scenarios
Scripts
Scenario: Knowledge Management
Scenario:
The Connected Home
Aspect:
The fully and seamlessly self-configured Connected Home
Selective
interoperability
Dynamic
allocation of
functions
"Follow me"
at presentation
High bandwidth
access network
Simple query
Global p-2-p
Adaptation to
network and
device
characteristics
Integrated
remote control
Medium-
Term
Internal ad-hoc
networking
Plug & play
of appliances
Knowledge retrieval
and di ffusion
according to context
Wireless Networks
Early protocols
Intelligent,
self organising
adaptive KM system
embedding the user
Advanced neararea networks
Collaboration
Mechanisms
Privacy and
security techniques
Enabling
technologies
outside ITE A
Stored knowledge
is entirely trustworthy/
certified
Short- Term
Long- T erm
Network of
functionalities
Power saving
techniques
Partly automated
electronic capture
and retrieval of
knowledge. Context
and profile-aware
specific KM
Streaming
to the world
Symmetric
broadband
Short- Term
Low-level
collaboration
Capturing knowledge
from human
behaviours. Semantic
analysis tools
Standardisation to
visualise existing
and needed KM
Knowledge capture
from business
processes and
external sources
(internet)
"Follow me" of
applications
Handover
in home
Scenario:
Area Networks
Wireless
interconnection
Aspect:
Scenario: Service composition
External ad-hoc
networking
Islands of
dynamically
composed
friendly (i.e.
easy to use)
services
Services built
individually
by human
integration
Plug & play
of resources
Smart agents
Ambient KM
embedding the user
Network of
appliances
+Remote video
High bandwidth
wireless HN
Software
upgrades
Partially automated KM
for specific domains
Knowledge
ontologies, KM
standardisation
Capture of information
from legacy support
Secure
DRM solution
Limited
DRM solution
Local video
Remote audio
& pictures
Intergrated
system/human,
automated and
standardised KM
Dynamically
composed services,
negotiation
based on use r,
context and
service profiles
Short- T erm
Sensors and
actuator
technologies
Medium- T erm
Clusters of
friendly services
Pre-configured
portals
Network of
autonomous
cooperative actors
Open system
architectures
Services ontology
(functional and
non-functional)
Software
evolution
infrastructure
Serve r, client &
agents containers
Ontology for
profiles and context
Data mining
and profiling
Context-aware
multimedia search
Semantic
search engines
Technologies
to fulfil legal
requirements
Learning and
adaptation
technologies
Self-organisation
techniques
Medium-
Component paradigm evolution
Development time
documentation
(Abstract component
description)
Component
Context-aware
and personalised
intelligent services
Self-organising
distributed
peer-to-peer
infrastructure
Fusion of data
from profiles with
recognition of
user's habit
Term
Deployable
Evolvable
Components
Abstraction
Evolution
Component
based
methodologies
Kobra
RU P
UM L 2
Standards
Domain
standardisation
Notation systems
Domain analysis
machine readable
notations
XML/XMI
Automatic setup
Semantic
mappings
Long- Term
Version
management
Long- Term
Short- Term
Medium- Term
Standard
components
Deploytime code
(setup code)
Intelligent
brokering
adapted to user
and context
Services
Certification
Short- Term
Components & software supplier market
Runtime Binaries
(Plug & play)
Agent swarms
Dynamic
interoperability
Plug-&play
Scenario: Nomadic
Partly automated KM
+ fusion/crossfertilisation from di
f ferent
domains
Smart appliances
Ad-hoc
limited KM
Function
registration
and discovery
Wired & wireless
home network
Dedicated
control
Dynamic
allocation
of functions
Networked
appliances
Integrated
KM is an ad-hoc
information system
repository + independent
human resources
management.
No standardised
methodologies
Dynamic
reconfiguration
Selective
interoperability
Content
exchange
Medium-
Term
Long- Term
Long- Term
Technologies
List
Clusters
Network Services
56
ContentAcquisition& Processing
30
Now
ST
MT
Rendezvous
of all the object in
the environment
Rendezvous
domainspeci Þc
generic
Regulation and
standards
High-precision open-space localisation
Localisation in buildings
New or extended intelligent sensors
ferent
sensors to information/knowledge
domainspeci Þc
GPS
Individual
Synthetic
Triangulation in
GSM/UMTS
Everywhere,
incl. in-door
In a local network
In a WAN network
Home and
enterprise
Home and
enterprise
Adaptive knowledge based auto-configuration
Agent-based configuration of network elements
Rendezvous
Security and privacy
Dynamic filtering and transformation for adaptation to
Identity management and profiling
Speci Þc and
management
(e.g. groups and communities)
Pattern matching of media data
Media interpretation algorithms
off-line
near
real-time
real-time
off-line
near
real-time
real-time
Identity management
Standardised ontologies
and construction of
proÞles from user habits
Monolithic, proprietary
Users ’ personal patterns of behaviour when on-line
established through ‘avatars
ficient compression algorithms / bit-rate reduction
(transmission time (isochronous – asynchronous), cost,
’59
V oice commands,
noisy
environments in
speci Þc domains
environments in
multiple domains
Enhanced natural
language
understanding,
speaker
independence
Games
H.264
Monotonic
Natural-sounding
with intonation
Understanding
content, some
emotions
Monitoring,
directions
(games)
Interpretation, pointing
Facial
movements,
some expressions
Eye movement (to control applications); eye-ball tracking
Calibration, focus control
Understand
some emotions
Multi-user interfaces; v
2D and 3D symbolic
(games and simulators)
Full 3D and
context support
irtual and augmented reality
Usability engineering
Rendezvous
Compression with scalable complexity for optimising coding
Legal aspects
for inter-operation
(e.g. CPU resources, and power)
Generating knowledge from data
Learning user interfaces
Work ßow
Pro Þles within closed or
Context
ProÞle
Privacy and security
Advanced web services allowing secure and transactional
coordination between applications
Support for multi-display/device/HSI systems
End-to-end
Support for accountable events
Þles)
Simple
(presence,
location)
Groups, more
context, detailed
domainspeci Þc
Adapting menus, mainly single users,
simple collaboration
Full context and
situation, some
emotions
Multi-diverse
environment
Understand some
human behaviour
Basic
Multi-diverse environments, trust aspects
Full support
Basic
Session roaming, context support,
complex systems
Full adaptation
and support
Basic
Multi-diverse environment
Te chnologies for Human-System Interaction /
generic
T echnologies for Network Services /
Derive high-level from low-level knowledge or data
W eb-based development environment
Full support
T able 4-1
Tool support
Open source best practice
81
Distributed and collaborative engineering
Distributed engineering support technologies
Shared work space
E.g. Groove
Concurrent engineering support technologies
Version management,
E.g. CVS, GForce
Collaborative decision making, groupware solutions
Proprietary
Integration of non-software engineering disciplines
Cyber rooms and processes
Configurable methodologies and process standards
Executable process definitions
Multi-diverse
environment
presence
Seamless and interchangeable HSIs
Multi-device HSIs
Data sharing based on object management
methodologies
Methodologies for per-to-peer engineering
Rendezvous
LT
Data sharing
Complete data transfer
Object management with versioning of schemas
E.g. Eclipse
Con Þgurable,
E.g. RU P
Domain-specific
CAD technologies
MT
E.g. XMI
Based on
Þle paradigm
Tool integration frameworks and platforms
Configurable, extensible and modular engineering
Configurable workflows
Þles
ST
E.g. MOF
Standardised tool data transfer formats
Integrated navigation and linking of engineering
elements, including data management
Disruptions
for various environments
Accountable event generation and collection
fic data)
Now
Integration and interoperation of engineering tools
Common meta-model for engineering artefacts
Disruptions
Dynamic and roamable pro
proprietary environments
General support for application mobility
Profile and network context-based service orchestration
Disruptions
Evolution of current systems
Evolution of current systems
Intelligent, context-aware and adaptive HSIs
User profiles
Context-awareness (with sensors and pro
Service-level agreements (SLA)
Self-adapting learning algorithms for content & context
Descriptive coding of context evolution in space and time
3-D realistic,
other domains
Evolution of current approaches
Platforms for HSI development
HSI usability test systems
Generic
80
Domain-specific
CAD technologies
interpretation,
understanding
content, some
emotions
Gestures (to control applications)
Brokering of services
parameters with respect to overall performances of the
transmission channel and terminal node capabilities
Natural language
understanding,
application
related semantic
Text to speech
Service coordination
H.261/H.263
space, quality (perceived quality - full integrity)
Behaviour prediction based on actual and historical data
Fusion of
proÞles
across
applications
Federated
Individual
to-URN
resolution
Universal identification
(e.g. camera images, position and digital maps)
Engineering process support
LT
Rendezvous
Voice commands
noisy
WAN
WAN
Standardised device interface (sensors / actuators) and
58
application model
Profiles for users and user clusters
session context
Integration of information
Algorithms for media integration
Real-time projection algorithms for full windscreen projection
(e.g. derived delay times from traf
MT
Speech recognition, speech to text
Synthetic
Service-based self-managing devices
context fusion; integration of context
Efficient analysis of data
Rendezvous
ST
Simple, self-explaining and easy-to-use multimodal HSIs
Automatic resource discovery in a network
generic
Context capturing and management
Ef ficient & standardised context exchange
(e.g. user profiles)
standarisation
Now
LT
Individual
Manually
con Þgured
Seamless distributed network capabilities
Sensor fusion to integrate raw physical data from dif
Software architectures of collaborative sensory systems
Infrastructure,
MT
T ransparent access to distributed data (individual sensor /
actuator data or synthetic data) within the local network
(e.g. in home, building, plants)
Remote access to local systems and services
(individual or synthetic)
57
Positioning
Low-cost location positioning with increasing precision
More ef
ST
Ambient intelligence
Standardised exchange of positioning information
Smart tags will allow
identification
Human-System Interaction
67
Now
LT
Digital Sensory System
Challenge
Process description language
Executable
Tool con Þguration for
process support
Requirements driven process management
Requirements management and change management
Requirements linking and tracking
E.g. DOORS
Requirements re-use techniques and guidelines
Requirements based measurement
Requirements, meta-models and specification
languages
From document-centred
to object-oriented
Re-use by reference
Template
Concept of uncertain requirements
Requirements verification and validation
Formalised description
Formalised description
Requirements based code generation techniques,
test generations
Knowledge based engineering
Ontology , standardised knowledge models, taxonomies
82
Data mining, software mining and profiling
Speci Þc
De Þnitions and matching algorithms
Focused and adapted generic methods, e.g.
pattern matching based on DN A analysis
Ta ble 3-2
T echnologies for engineering process support /
T able 5-3
(e.g. enhanced route-finding algorithms, taking into account
additional attributes such as user preferences and security
aspects)
T echnologies for Content
Acquisition & Processing /
Table 2-1
Rendezvous
Content
Infrastructures
& Basic Services
Human-System
Interaction
Engineering
ITEA 2 - 8
Welcoming industrial HPC applications and
infrastructures
ITEA 2 Symposium 2006
Technical state-of-the-union address
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Domains
Cyber
Enterprise
Home
Services &
Software
Creation
Intermediation
Services &
Infrastructures
Nomadic
Scenarios
Scripts
Scenario: Knowledge Management
Scenario:
The Connected Home
Aspect:
The fully and seamlessly self-configured Connected Home
Selective
interoperability
Dynamic
allocation of
functions
"Follow me"
at presentation
High bandwidth
access network
Simple query
Global p-2-p
Adaptation to
network and
device
characteristics
Integrated
remote control
Medium-
Term
Internal ad-hoc
networking
Plug & play
of appliances
Knowledge retrieval
and di ffusion
according to context
Wireless Networks
Early protocols
Intelligent,
self organising
adaptive KM system
embedding the user
Advanced neararea networks
Collaboration
Mechanisms
Privacy and
security techniques
Enabling
technologies
outside ITE A
Stored knowledge
is entirely trustworthy/
certified
Short- Term
Long- T erm
Network of
functionalities
Power saving
techniques
Partly automated
electronic capture
and retrieval of
knowledge. Context
and profile-aware
specific KM
Streaming
to the world
Symmetric
broadband
Short- Term
Low-level
collaboration
Capturing knowledge
from human
behaviours. Semantic
analysis tools
Standardisation to
visualise existing
and needed KM
Knowledge capture
from business
processes and
external sources
(internet)
"Follow me" of
applications
Handover
in home
Scenario:
Area Networks
Wireless
interconnection
Aspect:
Scenario: Service composition
External ad-hoc
networking
Islands of
dynamically
composed
friendly (i.e.
easy to use)
services
Services built
individually
by human
integration
Plug & play
of resources
Smart agents
Ambient KM
embedding the user
Network of
appliances
+Remote video
High bandwidth
wireless HN
Software
upgrades
Partially automated KM
for specific domains
Knowledge
ontologies, KM
standardisation
Capture of information
from legacy support
Secure
DRM solution
Limited
DRM solution
Local video
Remote audio
& pictures
Intergrated
system/human,
automated and
standardised KM
Dynamically
composed services,
negotiation
based on use r,
context and
service profiles
Short- T erm
Sensors and
actuator
technologies
Medium- T erm
Clusters of
friendly services
Pre-configured
portals
Network of
autonomous
cooperative actors
Open system
architectures
Services ontology
(functional and
non-functional)
Software
evolution
infrastructure
Serve r, client &
agents containers
Ontology for
profiles and context
Data mining
and profiling
Context-aware
multimedia search
Semantic
search engines
Technologies
to fulfil legal
requirements
Learning and
adaptation
technologies
Self-organisation
techniques
Medium-
Component paradigm evolution
Development time
documentation
(Abstract component
description)
Component
Context-aware
and personalised
intelligent services
Self-organising
distributed
peer-to-peer
infrastructure
Fusion of data
from profiles with
recognition of
user's habit
Term
Deployable
Evolvable
Components
Abstraction
Evolution
Component
based
methodologies
Kobra
RU P
UM L 2
Standards
Domain
standardisation
Notation systems
Domain analysis
machine readable
notations
XML/XMI
Automatic setup
Semantic
mappings
Long- Term
Version
management
Long- Term
Short- Term
Medium- Term
Standard
components
Deploytime code
(setup code)
Intelligent
brokering
adapted to user
and context
Services
Certification
Short- Term
Components & software supplier market
Runtime Binaries
(Plug & play)
Agent swarms
Dynamic
interoperability
Plug-&play
Scenario: Nomadic
Partly automated KM
+ fusion/crossfertilisation from di
f ferent
domains
Smart appliances
Ad-hoc
limited KM
Function
registration
and discovery
Wired & wireless
home network
Dedicated
control
Dynamic
allocation
of functions
Networked
appliances
Integrated
KM is an ad-hoc
information system
repository + independent
human resources
management.
No standardised
methodologies
Dynamic
reconfiguration
Selective
interoperability
Content
exchange
Medium-
Term
Long- Term
Long- Term
Technologies
List
Clusters
Network Services
56
ContentAcquisition& Processing
30
Now
ST
MT
Rendezvous
of all the object in
the environment
Rendezvous
domainspeci Þc
generic
Regulation and
standards
High-precision open-space localisation
Localisation in buildings
New or extended intelligent sensors
ferent
sensors to information/knowledge
domainspeci Þc
GPS
Individual
Synthetic
Triangulation in
GSM/UMTS
Everywhere,
incl. in-door
In a local network
In a WAN network
Home and
enterprise
Home and
enterprise
Adaptive knowledge based auto-configuration
Agent-based configuration of network elements
Rendezvous
Security and privacy
Dynamic filtering and transformation for adaptation to
Identity management and profiling
Speci Þc and
management
(e.g. groups and communities)
Pattern matching of media data
Media interpretation algorithms
off-line
near
real-time
real-time
off-line
near
real-time
real-time
Identity management
Standardised ontologies
and construction of
proÞles from user habits
Monolithic, proprietary
Users ’ personal patterns of behaviour when on-line
established through ‘avatars
ficient compression algorithms / bit-rate reduction
(transmission time (isochronous – asynchronous), cost,
’59
V oice commands,
noisy
environments in
speci Þc domains
environments in
multiple domains
Enhanced natural
language
understanding,
speaker
independence
Games
H.264
Monotonic
Natural-sounding
with intonation
Understanding
content, some
emotions
Monitoring,
directions
(games)
Interpretation, pointing
Facial
movements,
some expressions
Eye movement (to control applications); eye-ball tracking
Calibration, focus control
Understand
some emotions
Multi-user interfaces; v
2D and 3D symbolic
(games and simulators)
Full 3D and
context support
irtual and augmented reality
Usability engineering
Rendezvous
Compression with scalable complexity for optimising coding
Legal aspects
for inter-operation
(e.g. CPU resources, and power)
Generating knowledge from data
Learning user interfaces
Work ßow
Pro Þles within closed or
Context
ProÞle
Privacy and security
Advanced web services allowing secure and transactional
coordination between applications
Support for multi-display/device/HSI systems
End-to-end
Support for accountable events
Þles)
Simple
(presence,
location)
Groups, more
context, detailed
domainspeci Þc
Adapting menus, mainly single users,
simple collaboration
Full context and
situation, some
emotions
Multi-diverse
environment
Understand some
human behaviour
Basic
Multi-diverse environments, trust aspects
Full support
Basic
Session roaming, context support,
complex systems
Full adaptation
and support
Basic
Multi-diverse environment
Te chnologies for Human-System Interaction /
generic
T echnologies for Network Services /
Derive high-level from low-level knowledge or data
W eb-based development environment
Full support
T able 4-1
Tool support
Open source best practice
81
Distributed and collaborative engineering
Distributed engineering support technologies
Shared work space
E.g. Groove
Concurrent engineering support technologies
Version management,
E.g. CVS, GForce
Collaborative decision making, groupware solutions
Proprietary
Integration of non-software engineering disciplines
Cyber rooms and processes
Configurable methodologies and process standards
Executable process definitions
Multi-diverse
environment
presence
Seamless and interchangeable HSIs
Multi-device HSIs
Data sharing based on object management
methodologies
Methodologies for per-to-peer engineering
Rendezvous
LT
Data sharing
Complete data transfer
Object management with versioning of schemas
E.g. Eclipse
Con Þgurable,
E.g. RU P
Domain-specific
CAD technologies
MT
E.g. XMI
Based on
Þle paradigm
Tool integration frameworks and platforms
Configurable, extensible and modular engineering
Configurable workflows
Þles
ST
E.g. MOF
Standardised tool data transfer formats
Integrated navigation and linking of engineering
elements, including data management
Disruptions
for various environments
Accountable event generation and collection
fic data)
Now
Integration and interoperation of engineering tools
Common meta-model for engineering artefacts
Disruptions
Dynamic and roamable pro
proprietary environments
General support for application mobility
Profile and network context-based service orchestration
Disruptions
Evolution of current systems
Evolution of current systems
Intelligent, context-aware and adaptive HSIs
User profiles
Context-awareness (with sensors and pro
Service-level agreements (SLA)
Self-adapting learning algorithms for content & context
Descriptive coding of context evolution in space and time
3-D realistic,
other domains
Evolution of current approaches
Platforms for HSI development
HSI usability test systems
Generic
80
Domain-specific
CAD technologies
interpretation,
understanding
content, some
emotions
Gestures (to control applications)
Brokering of services
parameters with respect to overall performances of the
transmission channel and terminal node capabilities
Natural language
understanding,
application
related semantic
Text to speech
Service coordination
H.261/H.263
space, quality (perceived quality - full integrity)
Behaviour prediction based on actual and historical data
Fusion of
proÞles
across
applications
Federated
Individual
to-URN
resolution
Universal identification
(e.g. camera images, position and digital maps)
Engineering process support
LT
Rendezvous
Voice commands
noisy
WAN
WAN
Standardised device interface (sensors / actuators) and
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application model
Profiles for users and user clusters
session context
Integration of information
Algorithms for media integration
Real-time projection algorithms for full windscreen projection
(e.g. derived delay times from traf
MT
Speech recognition, speech to text
Synthetic
Service-based self-managing devices
context fusion; integration of context
Efficient analysis of data
Rendezvous
ST
Simple, self-explaining and easy-to-use multimodal HSIs
Automatic resource discovery in a network
generic
Context capturing and management
Ef ficient & standardised context exchange
(e.g. user profiles)
standarisation
Now
LT
Individual
Manually
con Þgured
Seamless distributed network capabilities
Sensor fusion to integrate raw physical data from dif
Software architectures of collaborative sensory systems
Infrastructure,
MT
T ransparent access to distributed data (individual sensor /
actuator data or synthetic data) within the local network
(e.g. in home, building, plants)
Remote access to local systems and services
(individual or synthetic)
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Positioning
Low-cost location positioning with increasing precision
More ef
ST
Ambient intelligence
Standardised exchange of positioning information
Smart tags will allow
identification
Human-System Interaction
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Now
LT
Digital Sensory System
Challenge
Process description language
Executable
Tool con Þguration for
process support
Requirements driven process management
Requirements management and change management
Requirements linking and tracking
E.g. DOORS
Requirements re-use techniques and guidelines
Requirements based measurement
Requirements, meta-models and specification
languages
From document-centred
to object-oriented
Re-use by reference
Template
Concept of uncertain requirements
Requirements verification and validation
Formalised description
Formalised description
Requirements based code generation techniques,
test generations
Knowledge based engineering
Ontology , standardised knowledge models, taxonomies
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Data mining, software mining and profiling
Speci Þc
De Þnitions and matching algorithms
Focused and adapted generic methods, e.g.
pattern matching based on DN A analysis
Ta ble 3-2
T echnologies for engineering process support /
T able 5-3
(e.g. enhanced route-finding algorithms, taking into account
additional attributes such as user preferences and security
aspects)
T echnologies for Content
Acquisition & Processing /
Table 2-1
Rendezvous
Content
Infrastructures
& Basic Services
Human-System
Interaction
Engineering
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An illustrating example: the ParMA project
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• Parallel programming for Multicore Architectures
“New machines will be parallel machines, and
this will require major changes in the way we
develop software”
Software and the Concurrency Revolution by Herb Sutter and James Larus, Microsoft
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ParMA Objectives
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The objective of the ParMA project is to fully exploit the power of
multi-core architectures
to:
– deliver substantial performance improvements for:
• conventional HPC (High Performance Computing) applications
• mainstream applications,
• embedded systems (MPSoC: Multi-Processor System-on-a-Chip)
– enable the advent of power-intensive innovative applications
by:
– developing advanced technologies for exploiting parallel computing
– exploring commonalities between HPC, Multi-Core and MPSoC
programming environments
– leveraging relevant technology and methodology between these domains
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Project tasks
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WP1: Project Management, Guidance, and Dissemination
WP2: Evolve methods and tools to
facilitate the development (or
restructuring) of parallel applications
and to make them much more
efficient.:
development environment
WP3: Provide advanced tools to check, debug,
measure, analyse, and optimise parallel
applications.
debugging and tuning environment
WP4: Extend the Linux Operating
System (NUMA API, Scheduler, etc.)
and optimise libraries to enable
parallel applications to fully exploit the
power of multi-core / multithreaded
architectures
execution environment
The ParMA
Technology
WP5: Experiment and
demonstrate the ParMA
technology in diverse
application domains
Feedback to Technology providers (WP2,
WP3, WP4)
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• Developers of parallel
applications
• Platform provider
– Bull (F)
F
– HPC
D
• Magma (D), Recom (D),
GNS (D)
• SW tool vendors
– Embedded systems
F
E
• Dassault aviation (F),
Indra (S)
– HPC
• Caps enterprise (F),
GWT (D),
F
D
– Embedded systems
• Allinea (UK)
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• Three large HPC centers
– HLRS / Universität Stuttgart
(D)
D
– ZIH / TU Dresden (D)
– FZ Jülich / ZAM (D)
• Academic and applied
research labs
– HPC
• UVSQ (F)
• INT (F)
F
– Embedded systems
• CEA-LIST (F)
• UAB (S)
• Robotiker (S)
F
E
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ParMA: A key investment
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•
Massively parallel programming to fully exploit the power of multi-core
architectures is a very ambitious goal that requires a substantial research
and experimentation effort
•
ParMA builds on a broad participation across countries because
– The knowledge and skills contributed by the various partners are
complementary and cannot be found within a single European country,
– Such endeavor requires a huge effort to cover a large enough
perspective,
– The whole HPC European research and industry is at stake.
•
The expected results will strengthen the European Research expertise in
this critical domain and, more importantly, the worldwide market position of
European parallel programming tool vendors, multi-core processors-based
systems manufacturers, HPC applications developers and distributors as
well as high performance embedded systems suppliers
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ITEA2: amplifying, extending
System@tic/Teratec initiatives
at European level
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IOLS
UVSQ
Dassault
Bull
Ter@tec
CEA
Autres…
System@tic
Labos
associés
Exemple INT
FAME2
Cariocas
HLRS, FZ Jülich, Magma,GWT,GNS,
RECOM, ZIH Dresden, INDRA, U BA,
Allinea,...
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2023
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Thank you for your attention