The Hipeac Vision

Societal Challenges for ICT 8 Energy 8 Transport and Mobility 8 Health 9 Aging population 9 Environment 9 Productivity 9 Safety 9 Application trends 10 Future ICT trends 10 Ubiquitous access 10 Personalized services 10 Delocalized computing and storage 10 Massive data processing systems 11 High-quality virtual reality 11 Intelligent sensing 11 High-performance real-time embedded computing 11 Innovative example applications 12 Domestic robot 12 The car of the future 12 Telepresence 12 Aerospace and avionics 13 Human++ 13 Computational science 13 Smart camera networks 14 Realistic games 14 Business trends 15 Industry de-verticalization 15 More than Moore 16 Less is Moore 17 Convergence 17 The economics of collaboration 18 Infrastructure as a service – cloud computing 18 Technological constraints 20 Hardware has become more fl exible than software 20 Power defi nes performance 21 Communication defi nes performance 21 ASICs are becoming unaffordable 22 Worst-case design for ASICs leads to bankruptcy 22 Systems will rely on unreliable components 23 Time is relevant 23 Computing systems are continuously under attack 24 Parallelism seems to be too complex for humans 24 One day, Moore's law will end 25 Technical challenges 26 Performance 27 Performance/€, performance/Watt/€ 27 Power and energy 28 Managing system complexity 28 Security 29 Reliability 29 Timing predictability 30 2. HiPEAC vision 31 Keep it simple for humans 32 Keep it simple for the software developer 32 Keep it simple for the hardware developer 35 Keep it simple for the system engineer 37 Let the computer do the hard work 38 Electronic Design Automation 39 Automatic Design Space Exploration 40 Effective automatic parallelization 40 Self-adaptation 41 If all above is not enough it is probably time to start thinking differently 41 Impact on the applications 42 Domestic robots 42 The car of the future 43 Telepresence 44 Aerospace and avionics 44 Human++ 45 Computational science 45 Smart camera networks 46 Realistic games 46