Immortalizing many-core systems early experiences of the horizon 2020 action IMMORTAL

Abstract

A dedicated fault monitoring network supplemented with fault management capabilities is required for controlling the dynamic reconfiguration and resource isolation within many-core systems as well as for keeping track of the system health status and reporting it to the software layer. It is imperative to develop such cross-layer fault management capabilities to be deployed in safety-critical domains but also in applications where access for maintenance would be time-consuming and costly, e.g. base stations in the telecommunications area. European universities (Tallinn University of Technology, Graz University of Technology and the University of Twente) have teamed up with IBM, the German Space Centre DLR and two SMEs (Recore Systems and Testonica Lab) in a new EU funded research project IMMORTAL (Integrated Modelling, Fault Management, Verification and Reliable Design Environment for Cyber-Physical Systems) in a quest to improve reliability and extend the lifetime of emerging many-core based cyber-physical systems.