CONTREX: Design of embedded mixed-criticality CONTRol systems under consideration of EXtra-functional properties

The increasing processing power of today’s HW/SW platforms leads to the integration of more and more functions in a single device. Additional design challenges arise when these functions share computing resources and belong to different criticality levels. The paper presents the CONTREX European project and its preliminary results. CONTREX complements current activities in the area of predictable computing platforms and segregation mechanisms with techniques to consider the extra-functional properties, i.e., timing constraints, power, and temperature. CONTREX enables energy efficient and cost aware design through analysis and optimization of these properties with regard to application demands at different criticality levels

CONTREX: Design of embedded mixed-criticality CONTRol systems under consideration of EXtra-functional properties

The increasing processing power of today’s HW/SW platforms leads to the integration of more and more functions in a single device. Additional design challenges arise when these functions share computing resources and belong to different criticality levels. CONTREX complements current activities in the area of predictable computing platforms and segregation mechanisms with techniques to consider the extra-functional properties, i.e., timing constraints, power, and temperature. CONTREX enables energy efficient and cost aware design through analysis and optimization of these properties with regard to application demands at different criticality levels. This article presents an overview of the CONTREX European project, its main innovative technology (extension of a model based design approach, functional and extra-functional analysis with executable models and run-time management) and the final results of three industrial use-cases from different domain (avionics, automotive and telecommunication).The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2011 under grant agreement no. 611146

Accelerating Automotive Analytics: The M2DC Appliance Approach

The Modular Microserver DataCenter (M2DC) project provides lowenergy, configurable, heterogeneous servers for applications that focus on the elaboration of large data sets, but can take advantage of performance enhancement provided by transparent acceleration techniques. In this paper, we exemplify the M2DC approach through one of the project’s use cases, namely automotive Internet of Things analytics. We present the main goals of the use case and we show how an appropriate M2DC microserver can be used to accelerate the application without significant modifications to its code

M2DC: Modular Microserver Datacentre with Heterogeneous Hardware

Oleksiak A, Kierzynka M, Piatek W, et al. M2DC: Modular Microserver Datacentre with Heterogeneous Hardware. Presented at the Energy-efficient Servers for Cloud and Edge Computing 2017 Workshop (ENeSCE 2017) - co-located with HiPEAC 2017, Stockholm, Sweden