Project Description

microHPC explores the current and future hardware regarding the design of future operating systems. Upcoming exascale systems will approach the performance challenge by scaling numbers but also by applying new hardware technologies that improve in all aspects of performance as well as energy. Those upcoming changes in hardware will have considerable impact on the design of secure operating systems.

All areas of new hardware architectures and components are in the focus, among them

• GPGPU -- "Graphics" cards are increasingly used as compute accelerators and are being integrated more and more closely to systems.
• Intel Xeon Phi -- The Phi is a new and available many-core processor based on the widely used x86 architecture.
• FPGAs -- Field-programmable gate arrays are programmable hardware and allow to fast prototyping as well as for application-specific program acceleration.
• HPE's "The Machine" is a new architecture design that puts memory-driven computing into the focus.