Speaker
Daniele Cesini
(CNAF)
Description
COSA (COmputing on SoC Architectures) is an CSN5 2 years (2015-2016) project aimed at evaluating the potential, the performances and the running costs of computing systems based on low power System-on-Chip (SoC). A cluster of development boards based on SoCs will be installed and configured. It will dimensioned to run in a realistic way (i.e. for real life use cases) scientific applications taken from the theoretical and experimental physics realms. The cluster will be open to INFN users interested in testing and acquiring expertise in the porting of parallel applications to low-power systems. The COSA cluster will run real parallel applications, computationally intensive, interesting for the INFN and eventually for other scientific communities collaborating with the INFN. The investigation of the interconnections among the SoCs will be another relevant part of the project. In this perspective, the project foresees the creation of a second cluster in ROME devoted to the study and eventually the design of appropriate network solutions. This cluster will not be open to users and will be based on FPGA technologies.
