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European Computing Network of Excellence Sets Course For the Future
The HiPEAC Vision for Advanced Computing in Horizon 2020 includes analysis, challenges and recommendations for Horizon 2020, a research and innovation program the EC will launch in 2014.
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The HiPEAC European Network of Excellence recently laid out the direction of computing systems research in Europe as it released its latest computer systems roadmap.
The HiPEAC Vision for Advanced Computing in Horizon 2020 roadmap includes analysis, challenges, and recommendations for Horizon 2020, a research and innovation program the European Commission will launch in 2014.
Mobile, embedded, and data-center computing are critical strategic areas, and energy consumption, system complexity, and dependability will pose significant challenges, the roadmap says. Succeeding in strategic areas and surmounting challenges will require transcending system and application boundaries, reevaluating hardware and software interfaces, and exploring the effects of technology and application evolution on algorithms and methodologies.
"We believe the next-generation of ‘killer applications’ will come from the convergence of mobile and embedded human-centric interface devices and data-center computing," says HiPEAC network coordinator Koen De Bosschere. "This convergence will enable applications to dynamically redistribute computation and communications, operating at a scale that can handle millions of global users and the processing of enormous data sets. By developing the infrastructure and techniques to develop applications that span these three converging layers of computing, we will all benefit from the available data, interactivity, and compute power."
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