Portable and Predictable Performance on Heterogeneous Embedded Manycores

Výkonnost a predikovatelnost přenostitelnch algoritmů na vestavných heterogenních mnohojádrovýh systémech

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Predictable performance, Multicore, Heterogeneous

Modern advanced products of today use embedded computing systems with exacting
requirements on execution speed, timeliness, and power consumption. It is a grand
challenge to guarantee these requirements across product families and in the face
of rapid technological evolution, as current development practices cannot manage
performance requirements the same way they manage functional requirements. Even
worse, with the proliferation of complex parallel target platforms, it becomes
more difficult to design a system that reaches a given performance goal with just
the minimum amount of resources, managed right. Today the only solution to this
problem is to over-design systems: systems are equipped pragmatically with an
overcapacity that likely avoids under-performance, but for this very reason are
more expensive and consume more resources than necessary. The proposed project
aims at making performance predictable in every development phase, from the
modelling of the system, over its implementation, to its execution by allowing
for early specification and analysis of performance of systems, its adaptation to
different hardware platforms, including an adaptive runtime system. During the
project, the developed methods and tools will be evaluated on a number of
industrial use cases and demonstrators in three application domains important to
European industry: Multimedia, Avionics and space, and Mobile communication. This
approach will guarantee that the methods and tools developed are both usable and
effective. To achieve our goals we have built a highly skilled European
consortium consisting of a balanced mix of problem owners, domain experts, and
technology providers: large enterprises as application drivers, platform
providers and system integrators, SME's as key-technology innovators, and
research institutes and universities bringing leading edge perspectives.

Zemčík Pavel, prof. Dr. Ing., dr. h. c. (DCGM) – research leader
Hruška Tomáš, prof. Ing., CSc. (DIFS)
Husár Adam, Ing., Ph.D.
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM)