LEGaTO: Low Energy Toolset for Heterogeneous Computing
| Project responsable | Pascal Felber |
| Team member |
Valerio Schiavoni
Marcelo Pasin |
| Abstract |
Recently system integrators have dramatically increased their
efforts in heterogeneous computing by integrating heterogeneous
cores on die (ARM), utilizing general purpose GPUs (NVIDIA),
combining CPUs and GPUs on same die (Intel, AMD), leveraging FPGAs
(Altera, Xilinx), integrating CPUs with FPGAs (Xilinx), and
coupling FPGAs and CPUs in the same package (IBM-Altera,
Intel-Altera). Heterogeneity aims to solve the problems associated
with the end of Moore´s Law by incorporating more specialized
compute units in the system hardware and by utilizing the most
efficient compute unit. However, while software-stack support for
heterogeneity is relatively well developed for performance,
software stack support for power- and energy-efficient computing it
is severely lacking. Given that the ICT sector is responsible for 5%
of global electricity consumption, software stack-support for
energy-efficient heterogeneous computing is critical to the future
growth of the ICT industry. The primary ambition of the LEGaTO
project is to address this challenge by starting with a
Made-in-Europe mature software stack, and by optimizing this stack
to support energy-efficient computing on a commercial cutting-edge
European-developed CPU-GPU-FPGA heterogeneous hardware substrate,
which will lead to an order of magnitude increase in energy
efficiency. |
| Keywords |
Energy Efficiency, Cloud Computing, Heterogeneous Computing |
| Project homepage | http://https://legato-project.eu/ |
| Type of project | Fundamental research project |
| Research area | Informatique |
| Method of financing | Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme |
| Status | Completed |
| Start of project | 1-12-2017 |
| End of project | 30-11-2020 |
| Overall budget | €452,125.00 |
| Contact | Valerio Schiavoni |