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Project aims to boost UK electronics industry

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A national collaboration of electronic engineers and computer scientists is aiming to develop the next generation of energy-efficient computing systems.

PRiME: Power-efficient, Reliable, Many-core Embedded systems, brings together four research groups from the Universities of Southampton, Imperial College, Manchester and Newcastle.

The five-year £5.6m EPSRC funded project will undertake research into the design and implementation of energy-efficient and dependable embedded systems with many-core processors.

Many-core processing (computer systems with hundreds of microprocessors) has applications in embedded, mobile, general-purpose and high-performance computing.

Prof Bashir Al-Hashimi from Southampton University and director of PRiME, said, ‘While many-core processing is viewed as a way to improve the performance of computing systems, the energy consumption and reliability of these systems with hundreds or thousands of cores has yet to be fully understood.

‘Our vision is to enable the sustainability of many-core systems by preventing the uncontrolled increase in energy consumption and unreliability through a step-change in design methods and cross–layer system optimisation.’

A key component of PRiME is the connection between research and the involvement of industry to identify and translate technology outcomes from this programme to commercial exploitation.

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