LOw Power Heterogeneous Architecture for NExt Generation of SmaRt Infrastructure and Platforms in Industrial and Societal Applications

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OPERA News

F2F Meeting

Amsterdam, 5-6 March 2018: F2F Meeting

Chassis EL 1000 has arrived

The HPE Chassis EL1000 server has arrived in CSI Piemonte for the Truck Validation Use Case.
It is small and suitable to be integrated into environment where the size is a constraint, such as a Truck

F2F meeting

14-15 June 2017: OPERA F2F meeting in Grenoble

F2F meeting

23-24 March 2017: OPERA F2F Meeting held @ ISMB

General Assembly Meeting 2016

27 – 28 September 2016
Edinburgh, Scotland

Agenda

OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE

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KO MEETING OPERA PROJECT

December 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
Turin, Italy

Dissemination News

Systor 2018

OPERA Consortium will be at International Systems and Storage Conference (Systor) 2018 in Haifa, Israel from 4th to 6th of June

HiPEAC18

22-24 January 2018 – OPERA @ HiPEAC 2018 – Manchester

Computing Systems Week

Stuttgart 25-27 October 2017.
The OPERA project organises a thematic session during the next HiPEAC Computing Systems Weeks (CSW)
We will share our results and solutions (modular low-power server, FPGA accelerator, ULP remote devices, etc.), to make energy-efficient the whole computing continuum, with other relevant EU funded projects’ representatives (M2DC, dRedBox, Vineyard), as well as the research (IT4Innovations) and industrial community.

Traffic monitoring poster

Urban Traffic monitoring with high rate communication at minimum energy consumption, read more: poster

VDI poster

Find out how OPERA Project will look for a solution for server-side virtualization: poster

Truck Poster

Discover more about our Use Case “Scalable Small form Factor Data Center” validation on Truck: poster

ISC-2017

OPERA project will be presented at ISC High Performance 2017 in a booth on wednesday June 21.

usrfaultfd presentation @ LSF/MM summit

Michael Rapoport presented a talk about usrfaultfd technology we are extending as a part of OPERA project at LSF/MM summit. Here’s an aricle on LWN.

HiPEAC 2017

OPERA project at #HiPEAC17 January 23-25, 2017, Low power and Heterogeneous architecture and exascale challenges.

DSD-2016 Conference

Paper “OPERA: a Low Power Approach to the Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures” @ DSD-2016 Conference, 1 Semptember 2016 – Limassol, Cyprus

SYSTOR 2016

A poster on cross-ISA container migration will be presented at SYSTOR 2016 (June 6-8) in Haifa.

SIGMETRICS 2016 Conference

New paper “Hash, Don’t Cache (the Page Table)” accepted at SIGMETRICS 2016 Conference (Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France – June 15-17, 2016).

OpenPOWER Summit 2016

Nallatech will talk about OPERA during OpenPOWER Summit 2016

CISIS Conference

New paper titled “Workload Management for Power Efficiency in Heterogeneous Data Centers” submitted at CISIS 2016 Conference

HiPEAC Conference Poster

The poster presented at HiPEAC 2016 Conference (Prague, Czech Republic, 18-20 January) is available in OpenProject, under “WP8 – task 8.4” documents.

OBJECTIVES

Small Form Factor Data Center

OPERA will provide a datacenter in a box approach with a chassis are able to have up to 180 servers in a single 4.3U chassis.

Heterogeneous architecture

OPERA proposes to look at the problem of how to modify software to take advantage of a heterogeneous architecture with the focus on the constraint of power consumption.

New Generation Servers

In OPERA a new FPGA hardware that will be integrated in a scalable, heterogeneous, datacentre-in-a-box platform will be developed.

Ultra Low Power architecture

OPERA will investigate the definition of new HW/SW methodologies for specific computer vision application with a new approach based on convolutional neural networks.

High performance on ULP Architecture

The results in this area will provide a completely new type of device that will increase substantially the efficiency, with a new type of connections for data between sensor and processing unit.

Metrics for Energy efficiency

OPERA will conduct research to find the right energy efficiency metrics, derived from the researched model and translated in algorithms that are the best fit for the circumstances.

Workload decomposition on scalable Small Form factor DC

OPERA will develop an efficient workload decomposition system that automatically and dynamically executes tasks on the most suitable processing element.

Innovative Power Management

OPERA aim also to deliver a new management tools allowing for predictive workload and tightly integrated with server capabilities through standard interfaces.

ULP working prototype Real Time constraint

The objective of OPERA for this use case is to build a demonstrator of a traffic monitoring system composed by a very low power video traffic sensor and a datacentre-in-a-box that can be used in critical environments.

Use Cases

THE CONSORTIUM

OPERA Partners
ST Microelectronics
Giulio Urlini: Coordinator
Industrial
STMicroelectronics is a French-Italian multinational electronics and semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is commonly called ST, and it is Europe’s largest semiconductor chip maker based on revenue.
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE MARIO BOELLA
Olivier Terzo: Technical and Scientific Coordinator
Research Center
ISMB is a research and innovation centre operating in the ICT domain. Today ISMB relies on the technological and process competences of around 150 researchers working in close cooperation with companies, academia and public administration.
IBM ISRAEL
Industrial
IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
HP CENTRE DE COMPETENCES FRANCE
Industrial
HP is an American global information technology company. It develops and provides a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, SMBs and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
Nallatech Ltd
Industrial
Nallatech is a leading supplier of FPGA accelerated computing solutions. Today Nallatech utilizes latest-generation FPGAs to dramatically increase performance-per-watt over traditional computing architectures, while leveraging high level design tools to reduce time-to-market.
TECHNION
Research Center
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public research university in Haifa, Israel. The university offers degrees in science and engineering, and related fields such as architecture, medicine, industrial management and education.
CSI PIEMONTE
Public Body – End User
CSI is the Information System Consortium for the management of ICT services in Piedmont PAs. CSI works in all sectors: from health to production activities, from cultural heritage to administrative systems and from the territory to professional training and employment.
NEAVIA TECHNOLOGIES
Industrial – SME
Neavia has a unique mastership of multi-sensor detection, data acquisition devices, embedded processing, critical information transmission to communication platforms. Being always at the service of infrastructure managers, Neavia improves their duty.
CERTIOS
Industrial – SME
Certios was born when it became evident that the growth of remote processing and storage of data brought a new responsibility to a very young industry. Since the start, Certios has built experience, knowledge and a vision, and share this with clients.
TESEO SPA
Industrial – SME
TESEO is a leading EMC technology provider, a tier 2 defense and aerospace system integrator and a highly specialised technology solution provider for automotive and telecommunication industries, including industrial automation.
DEPARTEMENT DE L’ISERE
Public Body – End User
Isère is a department in the Rhône-Alpes region in the east of France named after the river Isère.

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