This is a project funded by European Commission FP7 Computing Systems Programme that brings together multiple partners that are focused on demonstrating a step function improvement in system density and energy efficiency for data center applications compared to current state-of-the-art platforms using incumbent processor architectures. The goal is to scale the platform to support hundreds cores in a single server and show the path that will make a data centre featuring 1 million cores viable. At the heart of this program is the efficient coupling of high performance ARM®CortexTM processors with 3D memory technology targeting the Mobile Cloud services from Nokia’s ovi.com, which will serve millions of “mobile handsets”. By validating this path, companies across the world will be able to construct super-efficient, environmentally clean and compact data centers for the deployment of green Cloud Computing services. Pioneering the pursuit of green data centers further strengthens Europe’s leadership and excellence in green computing.
The project started in Jan-2010 and will complete in Dec-2012. It has a significant impact on the society, environment and European IT sector. Please read our Strategic Impact.
