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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation )

Teaser

The HiPEAC Support Action works in the context of the radical paradigm shift towards multicore computing and the convergence of the commodity market, the supercomputing market and the embedded market, making the (heterogeneous) multicore chip the universal computing device of...

Summary

The HiPEAC Support Action works in the context of the radical paradigm shift towards multicore computing and the convergence of the commodity market, the supercomputing market and the embedded market, making the (heterogeneous) multicore chip the universal computing device of this era.

The top-level objectives of HiPEAC are:
[O0] Stimulating collaboration between academic and industrial communities, and connecting them to the innovation community.
[O1] Growing the industrial and innovation communities, the stakeholder members group, and the underrepresented groups.
[O2] Connecting the communities by offering quarterly high-quality networking events, by stimulating mobility, and by promoting an active Jobs portal.
[O3] Sharing information in and between the communities, using different communication channels for different messages.
[O4] Roadmapping, or building a vision for the future of the computing systems community in Europe.

The HiPEAC objectives are translated into a joint program of activities consisting of four programs, supplemented by appropriate management processes.

Work performed

WP1: Growing the communities

The work package on Growing the communities focuses on attracting more industrial members, members from the innovation community, stakeholder members and underrepresented groups like members from new member states (NMS) and female members.

At the start of HiPEAC5, a membership action plan was developed defining how we will reach out to representatives in these different target groups and how we can convince them to join the network and engage them in HiPEAC activities.

Between 1 Dec. 2017 and 31 Jan. 2019, HiPEAC welcomed 120 new members, 35 of them from industry, 34 from the innovation community and 24 from NMS. The community has been growing steadily. Currently, HiPEAC has 13 partners, 606 members and 111 associate members. Of the 606 members, 171 are members from companies. Furthermore, we have 933 HiPEAC PhD students and 460 affiliate members. See hipeac.net/members.

WP2: Connecting the communities

The work package on Connecting the communities focuses on building connections between members and between member types, and engaging the members into network activities. Therefore, this work package contains the activities that are known to knit the community closer together: networking, training, and two mobility activities: collaborations and jobs. The purpose of all these activities is to connect members and communities, especially the academic and industrial researchers, and the researchers with the innovation community.

The HiPEAC2018 conference in Manchester brought 531 attendees together. At the 13th HiPEAC Conference, 33 papers were presented in the main conference track and 27 workshops and 7 tutorials took place. HiPEAC2019 welcomed 543 participants in Manchester. At the 2019 conference, 24 workshops and 16 tutorials were organised.

HiPEAC also organized two computing systems weeks (CSWs) - one in Spring and one in Autumn. These CSWs consist of a main track organised on a central theme, thematic sessions, technology seminars and industrial partnership program sessions. The primary goal of the large networking events is to bring the HiPEAC community together under one roof on a regular basis, and thereby create an opportunity to meet and make collaboration plans. We organized two CSWs in 2018. The event in Gothenburg, Sweden attracted 122 participants while the CSW in Heraklion, Greece attracted 205 participants.

The ACACES 2018 summer school was held from 8 July to 14 July 2018 in Fiuggi, Italy. The summer school attracted 315 applications, which resulted in 228 participants accepting the invitation to attend the event. 108 PhD students received a HiPEAC grant. 25 people from industry, representing 16 different companies, attended.

The 2018 internship call resulted in the awarding of 6 students for an internship grant. All of them were granted to SMEs.

WP3: Dissemination

The work package on Dissemination contains tasks like communications, roadshow, awards, and maintaining the website. All these activities are meant to share news about the community, and to promote the community internally, and externally.

A dedicated communication officer assures the high quality of the HiPEAC communications and thereby reaches out to a wide, diverse audience outside of the immediate HiPEAC community. This is done by focusing on several activities: (1) branding and corporate image, (2) development of promotional material, (3) Updating the website with regular news and other content, (4) social media, (5) creation of videos and photography, (6) publishing the monthly HiPEAC newsmail, (7) the HiPEAC magazine, (8) working on media relations, (9) organisation of outreach activities, (10) dissemination of information through existing mailing lists, (11) development of a contact database.

The roadshow disseminated the achievements of the HiPEAC members beyond the community and attracted new members by attending 8 international trade shows.

The award program was successful. 65 papers rec

Final results

HiPEAC reinforces and broadens Europe\'s strong position in low-energy computing by reducing the effort needed to include digital technology inside any type of product or service, including outside the traditional “high-tech” sectors.

HiPEAC creates software development environments and tools allowing easy development of applications for parallel and heterogeneous architectures. Tools should be usable in realistic use cases, and should significantly increase the productivity in efficiently programming and maintaining advanced computing systems as compared to the state of the art at the start of the project.

HiPEAC creates a higher share of European SMEs and mid-caps in the reference markets, both on the supply and the demand side.

Website & more info

More info: https://www.hipeac.net/.