Abstract
The CONTINUUM project aims to define a new energy-efficient compute node model, which will benefit from a suitable combination of efficient compilation techniques, emerging memory and communication technologies together with heterogeneous cores. It is a French collaborative research project, coordinated by Dr. Abdoulaye Gamatié. The consortium includes the Cortus S.A.S Company, the Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique research center and the LIRMM laboratory of Montpellier. The project started in October 2015 and lasted 42 months. It benefited from ANR funding of 573 K€ for a global cost of € 781 K€, under the grant reference ANR-15-CE25-0007-01.This report summarizes the main achievements of the CONTINUUM project over its running period. More details will be found in the publications corresponding to the results reported here. These contributions globally concern: i) energy consumption optimization through innovative compilation approaches and cache memory system design, taking into account the integration of non-volatile memory technologies; ii) workload management (in particular, workload mapping) enabling performance and energy improvements in heterogeneous multicore systems; iii) and finally, a multicore architecture prototype designed with the core technology from the Cortus Company. Further information about the project could be found on its dedicated website: http://www.lirmm.fr/continuum-project.