Abstract
The goal of the CONTINUUM project is 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. The originality of the solution promoted by the project is to consider the core technology of the Cortus partner. The current deliverable presents a number of candidate core technologies, mainly from Cortus and ARM. Performance and power consumption numbers are given as an assessment of all thesetechnologies. The outcome of the present survey will serve in choosing the suitable core technologies in the expected heterogeneous architecture.