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National Innovation Network at the Crossroads – in Search of a New Support Formula for Proinnovative Services for Small and Medium Enterprises
Celem artykułu jest analiza jakościowa systemu wsparcia innowacyjnej przedsiębiorczości
opartego na Krajowej Sieci Innowacji oferującej usługi proinnowacyjne dla małych i średnich
przedsiębiorstw w Polsce. Formułowane wnioski oparte są na wynikach ogólnopolskich badań
przeprowadzonych przez autora wśród firm sektora MŚP, będących zarówno beneficjentami usług
KSI (ogółem zbadano 381 podmiotów), jak i firm niekorzystających wcześniej z tych usług (próba
badawcza liczyła 1100 podmiotów). Podstawowe zastrzeżenia zgłaszane przez małych i średnich
przedsiębiorców dotyczą pasywności tych ośrodków w budowaniu partnerskiej współpracy,
zdolności do rozpoznania rzeczywistych potrzeb przedsiębiorstwa oraz umiejętności dostosowania
oferty usług w odpowiedzi na rzeczywiste potrzeby przedsiębiorstw. W artykule zawarto rekomendacje
zmian w systemie świadczenia usług proinnowacyjnych w ramach wsparcia publicznego
oferowanego przez ośrodki Krajowej Sieci Innowacji w odniesieniu do „filozofii”, zakresu i instrumentów
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FPGA-based smart camera mote for pervasive wireless network
International audienceSmart camera networks raise challenging issues in many fields of research, including vision processing, communication protocols, distributed algorithms or power management. The ever increasing resolution of image sensors entails huge amounts of data, far exceeding the bandwidth of current networks and thus forcing smart camera nodes to process raw data into useful information. Consequently, on-board processing has become a key issue for the expansion of such networked systems. In this context, FPGA-based platforms, supporting massive, fine grain data parallelism, offer large opportunities. Besides, the concept of a middleware, providing services for networking, data transfer, dynamic loading or hardware abstraction, has emerged as a means of harnessing the hardware and software complexity of smart camera nodes. In this paper, we prospect the development of a new kind of smart cameras, wherein FPGAs provide high performance processing and general purpose processors support middleware services. In this approach, FPGA devices can be reconfigured at run-time through the network both from explicit user request and transparent middleware decision. An embedded real-time operating system is in charge of the communication layer, and thus can autonomously decide to use a part of the FPGA as an available processing resource. The classical programmability issue, a significant obstacle when dealing with FPGAs, is addressed by resorting to a domain specific high-level programming language (CAPH) for describing operations to be implemented on FPGAs
On the Fly Orchestration of Unikernels: Tuning and Performance Evaluation of Virtual Infrastructure Managers
Network operators are facing significant challenges meeting the demand for
more bandwidth, agile infrastructures, innovative services, while keeping costs
low. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud Computing are emerging as
key trends of 5G network architectures, providing flexibility, fast
instantiation times, support of Commercial Off The Shelf hardware and
significant cost savings. NFV leverages Cloud Computing principles to move the
data-plane network functions from expensive, closed and proprietary hardware to
the so-called Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). In this paper we deal with the
management of virtual computing resources (Unikernels) for the execution of
VNFs. This functionality is performed by the Virtual Infrastructure Manager
(VIM) in the NFV MANagement and Orchestration (MANO) reference architecture. We
discuss the instantiation process of virtual resources and propose a generic
reference model, starting from the analysis of three open source VIMs, namely
OpenStack, Nomad and OpenVIM. We improve the aforementioned VIMs introducing
the support for special-purpose Unikernels and aiming at reducing the duration
of the instantiation process. We evaluate some performance aspects of the VIMs,
considering both stock and tuned versions. The VIM extensions and performance
evaluation tools are available under a liberal open source licence
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CleanTX Analysis on the Smart Grid
The utility industry in the United States has an opportunity to revolutionize its electric grid system by utilizing emerging software, hardware and wireless technologies and renewable energy sources. As electricity generation in the U.S. increases by over 30% from today’s generation of 4,100 Terawatt hours per year to a production of 5,400 Terawatt hours per year by 2030, a new type of grid is necessary to ensure reliable and quality power. The projected U.S. population increase and economic growth will require a grid that can transmit and distribute significantly more power than it does today. Known as a Smart Grid, this system enables two- way transmission of electrons and information to create a demand-response system that will optimize electricity delivery to consumers. This paper outlines the issues with the current grid infrastructure, discusses the economic advantages of the Smart Grid for both consumers and utilities, and examines the emerging technologies that will enable cleaner, more efficient and cost- effective power transmission and consumption.IC2 Institut
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