Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program and with a total duration of three years (October 2020-September 2023), EVEREST (dEsign enVironmEnt foR Extreme-Scale big data analytics on heterogeneous platforms) is a project dedicated to increasing computational efficiency by trying to improve the match between the requirements of applications and the characteristics of the hardware on which they work.
The High Performance Big Data Analytics (HPDA) applications, used in the computational field for the rapid analysis of massive amounts of data, requires the development of new systems capable of combining High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud, IoT and artificial intelligence technologies, such as Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which promise significant improvements in the computational time of complex meteorological applications. EVEREST therefore aims to develop a holistic approach to co-designing computing and communication in a system for HPDA, combining state-of-the-art programming models with emerging communication standards. In particular, three will be the scenarios used for the validation of the approach developed by the project: a meteorological model used for the renewable energy market, an application for air quality monitoring and a model for real-time traffic analysis, designed for intelligent transport and smart cities).
Within the EVEREST project, CIMA Research Foundation will focus, in cooperation with the partnership, to the exploration of the portability of the WRF model in FPGA environment, as well as the execution of hydro-meteorological and air quality workflows.
