RELEASE

A High-Level Paradigm for Reliable Large-scale Server Software

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW    more  Organization address address: University Avenue city: Glasgow postcode: G12 8QQ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Joe Cognome: Galloway Email: send email Telefono: +44 141 330 3884 Fax: +44 141 330 5611
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	3˙424˙104 €
EC contributo	2˙400˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2011-7
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-10-01   -   2015-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW  Organization address address: University Avenue city: Glasgow postcode: G12 8QQ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Joe Cognome: Galloway Email: send email Telefono: +44 141 330 3884 Fax: +44 141 330 5611	UK (Glasgow)	coordinator	0.00
2	ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE S.A.  Organization address address: avenue de Wagram 22-30 city: PARIS postcode: 75382 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Christine Cognome: Patte Email: send email Telefono: 33147654076	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
3	ERICSSON AB  Organization address address: TORSHAMNSGATAN 23 city: STOCKHOLM postcode: 164 80 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Kenneth Cognome: Lundin Email: send email Telefono: +46 10 7152954	SE (STOCKHOLM)	participant	0.00
4	ERLANG SOLUTIONS LIMITED  Organization address address: BACK CHURCH LANE SUITE 2.05 NEW LOOM HOUSE 101 city: LONDON postcode: E1 1LU contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Saida Cognome: Ghulamali Email: send email Telefono: 442075000000	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
5	INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS  Organization address address: Patission Str. 42 city: ATHINA postcode: 10682 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Nikolaos Cognome: Papaspyrou Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 7723393 Fax: +30 210 7722509	EL (ATHINA)	participant	0.00
6	UNIVERSITY OF KENT  Organization address address: THE REGISTRY CANTERBURY city: CANTERBURY, KENT postcode: CT2 7NZ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Juan Cognome: Vidal Email: send email Telefono: +44 1227 823256	UK (CANTERBURY, KENT)	participant	0.00
7	UPPSALA UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: SANKT OLOFSGATAN 10 B city: UPPSALA postcode: 751 05 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Patrik Cognome: Armuand Email: send email Telefono: +46 18 471 5701 Fax: +46 18 511925	SE (UPPSALA)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The exponential growth in the number of cores requires radically new software development technologies. Many expect 100,000-core platforms to become commonplace, and the best predictions are that core failures on such an architecture will be common, perhaps one an hour. Hence we require programming models that are not only highly scalable but also reliable. The project aim is to scale the radical concurrency-oriented programming paradigm to build reliable general-purpose software, such as server-based systems, on massively parallel machines. The trend-setting language we will use is Erlang/OTP which has concurrency and robustness designed in. Currently Erlang/OTP has inherently scalable computation and reliability models, but in practice scalability is constrained by aspects of the language and virtual machine. Moreover existing profiling & debugging tools don't scale. The RELEASE consortium is uniquely qualified to tackle these challenges and we propose to work at three levels: - evolving the Erlang virtual machine so that it can work effectively on large scale multicore systems; - evolving the language to Scalable Distributed (SD) Erlang, and adapting the OTP framework to provide both constructs like locality control, and reusable coordination patterns to allow SD Erlang to effectively describe computations on large platforms, while preserving performance portability;- developing a scalable Erlang infrastructure to integrate multiple, heterogeneous clusters. We will develop state of the art tools that allow programmers to understand the behaviour of massively parallel SD Erlang programs. We will demonstrate the effectiveness of the RELEASE approach using demonstrators and two large case studies on a Blue Gene. Erlang is a beacon language for distributed computing, influencing both other languages and actor libraries and frameworks. Hence we expect the project to make a strong and enduring impact on computing practice in the two decades.