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HyPPO

HyPPO is the result of two different projects (XeMPUPiL and Dockercap) blended in an unique technology product consists in a set of orchestration methodologies enabling datacenter providers to save up to 30% of the energy consumed with respect to a client defined SLA (Service Level Agreement). More in details, this methodology targets the needs of both application and data-intensive services owners (e.g. social networks, instant payment services, automated translation, as-a-Service software platforms, webmail services and so on), which represent the greatest part of the workloads deployed on the cloud.

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XeMPUPiL

XeMPUPiL proposes a methodology for hardware and software power capping in virtualized environments. In the era of Cloud Computing, services and computational power are provided in an “as-a-service” fashion, reducing the need of buying, building and maintaining proprietary systems. Indeed, it allows companies to run their applications “in- the-cloud” instead of buying proprietary servers. In this context, virtualization enables cloud providers to run multiple applications on the same physical resources, still ensuring strong isolation to each of them.

However:

• the servers of the same datacenter may not be equipped with the same amount of memory and processors;
• different tenants may be characterized by different workloads profile ( memory-bound; I/O bound and/or CPU- bound);
• given the huge density of servers in modern data centers, the power grid may not be able to supply enough energy to run all of them at their peak performance, thus requiring tools and interfaces able to set a power cap on the whole systems.

Cloud providers face the need of cost optimization and the problem of consolidating multiple workloads on the same infrastructure. Indeed, power consumption remains one of the most impacting costs on a multi-tenant server infrastructure.

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DockerCap

DockerCap is a software-level power capping orchestrator for Docker containers. The huge hype of Internet of Things is leading to the production of a huge quantity of data that need to be stored and analyzed outside of the device, given their limited amount of resources. On the one hand, this is leading to an increasing adoption of multi-tenancy solutions for Cloud and fog computing. On the other hand, power consumption has become a major concern. Cloud computing, being the single point of collection of data coming from the swarm of sensors and IoT nodes, provides an effective way to address this issue. However, this solution may not be efficient when the amount of data grows and applications are subject to low latency and limited bandwidth requirements. Fog computing paradigm comes into play to tackle the problem by introducing an intermediate layer of computation between the devices and the cloud. This reduces communication overheads for latency-sensitive applications, but introduces other not trivial aspects:

• power consumption;
• nodes heterogeneity;
• multi-tenancy.

Indeed, despite their higher computational power if compared to embedded devices, fog nodes are still constrained in terms of power and energy consumption. Moreover, fog nodes are heterogeneous by design. This implies that fog applications need to be portable across distinct nodes and from the cloud to the fog as well. The issue about multi-tenancy requires that multiple applications can be hosted on the same node and they all have to meet the performance requirements they are subject to.

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Bluesentinel

A high precision real time localization system to monitor people and objects in different context such as industrial spaces, corporate office and to trace process in a production plant. Compared to other current solutions, it guarantees optimized installation costs, continuous monitoring and user data privacy.

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Startup 101

NECST StartUp 101 program is born to expose students to the broad issues they will need to deal with whether they aspire to start their own business, work for a large company or go into an accademia right after graduation.

It aims at helping students cultivate their business skills and develop their entrepreneurial mindset. At NECSTLab we believe that, as engineers, it is important to provide students the complementary skills essential for understanding how their technical know-how can interact with academic or business environments in order to give their own contribution and create value.

In the context of the XOHW (Xilinx Open Hardware) Contest, they will develop their own project also from a business perspective simulating a real startup launch starting from the idea straight to market positioning.

Projecst Example:

• numPYNQ
• bie-PInCS
• WeMOS

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