A recently granted 3.6 M Euro research project, funded by the European Commission, aims to transform new and existing computing applications for deployment to state-of-the-art heterogeneous computing systems. The resulting parallel implementations offer significant benefits in performance, energy efficiency, and product development costs for applications such as railway monitoring, industrial manufacturing, and healthcare.
The 3.6 M Euro REPARA project, supported with more that 2.6M Euros by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for Research and Technological Development, the EU's main instrument for funding research – will bring together expertise from academic institutions and industry specialists across five countries.
Starting in September 2013, the REPARA project will run for 3 years and will focus on deploying applications to parallel heterogeneous computing systems. The project aims to make the performance and energy efficiency benefits of such computers available to end users without the high development effort usually associated with such complex architectures. The automated tools and methodologies targeted by REPARA are designed to reduce time-to-market and development costs, leading to more competitive products.
The project involves FIVEacademic institutions: University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, HSR Raperswil in Switzerland, Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany, University of Szeged in Hungary, and University of Pisa in Italy. In addition, two industrial partners play key roles in the project: Ixion Industry and Aerospace in Spain and Evopro Innovations in Hungary both contribute their practical expertise across a broad spectrum of key applications.
(Press Relaese form the website of the REPARA Project)