Objectives

In a world of de-facto standards as well as huge amounts of legacy HW and SW, it is very difficult to achieve real breakthrough in system-wide energy savings beyond fragmented point solutions, e.g. at the HW or OS level.

GEMSCLAIM's mission is to overcome this hurdle by a novel cross layer energy optimization approach that combines the following major research activities:

• Development of an energy-aware optimizing and parallelizing compiler;
• Component aware energy-efficient operating system and
• Customizable HW modelling with energy monitoring facilities.

Overall architecture

Mobile terminals and consumer devices are among the fastest growing markets in computing. In the long term, further growth is endangered by the "power/ energy wall". The purpose of GEMSCLAIM is to explore new techniques in energy optimization via an interdisciplinary vertical approach: a novel combined optimization across the major HW/SW system layers (compiler/OS/HW platform).