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Session 2B-Machairas-A Hardware Implementation of CCSDS 122.1-B-1 for Transformed-Based Lossy Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Compression

EDRA was an Horizon 2020 FET Launchpad project that focused on the commercialization of the Decoupled Access Execution Reconfigurable (DAER) framework - developed within the FET-HPC EXTRA project - on Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2) Compute FPGA-based infrastructure. The delivered framework encapsulates DAER into a EC2 virtual machine (VM), and uses a simple, directive-based, high-level application programming interface (API) to facilitate application mapping to the underlying hardware architecture. EDRA's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is an accelerator for the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function (PLF), one of the cornerstone functions in most phylogenetic inference tools, achieving up to 8x performance improvement compared to optimized software implementations. Towards entering the market, research revealed that Europe is an extremely promising geographic region for focusing the project efforts on dissemination, MVP promotion and advertisement.

AXIOM project aims at developing a heterogeneous computing board (SMP-FPGA).The Software Layers developed at the AXIOM project are explained.OmpSs provides an easy way to execute heterogeneous codes in multiple cores. People and objects will soon share the same digital network for information exchange in a world named as the age of the cyber-physical systems. The general expectation is that people and systems will interact in real-time. This poses pressure onto systems design to support increasing demands on computational power, while keeping a low power envelop. Additionally, modular scaling and easy programmability are also important to ensure these systems to become widespread. The whole set of expectations impose scientific and technological challenges that need to be properly addressed.The AXIOM project (Agile, eXtensible, fast I/O Module) will research new hardware/software architectures for cyber-physical systems to meet such expectations. The technical approach aims at solving fundamental problems to enable easy programmability of heterogeneous multi-core multi-board systems. AXIOM proposes the use of the task-based OmpSs programming model, leveraging low-level communication interfaces provided by the hardware. Modular scalability will be possible thanks to a fast interconnect embedded into each module. To this aim, an innovative ARM and FPGA-based board will be designed, with enhanced capabilities for interfacing with the physical world. Its effectiveness will be demonstrated with key scenarios such as Smart Video-Surveillance and Smart Living/Home (domotics).