F2F Technical Meeting in Nantes – 21-22 November 2017
OPERA @ HiPEAC17
IBM @ Linux Plumbers 2016
Alberto Scionti @ DSD-2016
Drone demo
Joel Nider @ CISIS 2016
Kick Off Meeting
MAIN EVENTS
OPERA is stakeholder member of HiPEAC
OPERA is member of Heterogeneity Alliance
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
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
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
Traffic Monitoring
Ultra low-power cyber-physical systems for urban traffic monitoring (Smart City). Security improvement through video monitoring for pedestrians detection, accident detection, animals, potential situation of risk; communications alert to vehicles (future VANET standard). DOWNLOAD THE POSTER
Virtual desktop
Low Power Computing solution for desktop virtualization at both, client and server side. Low Power thin client workstation in alternative to PCs and low power mini-server clustering in alternative to standard servers. 4000 end-users in a full operative condition for Turin City hall, 2000 end users for the Piedmont Region. DOWNLOAD THE POSTER
Data center in a box
Mobile communication center on a truck able to give autonomous network access for communications, internet via Satellite communications, wi-fi service provisioning, video live streaming from UAV, italian Civil Protection DB replicas. DOWNLOAD THE POSTER
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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