HiPEAC innovation booster Endorsement by the Innovation Radar is a great way for projects
• Exploring Both innovation readiness and innovation management are at an
and their institutions to promote innovations developed within
early stage.
projects. Many projects make the most of this opportunity by
• Tech ready
preparing press releases or website news items to highlight
Technologies with high innovation readiness, but lower innovation
success stories, for example. See the example of the EPEEC
management capacity.
project, below.
• Business ready Acknowledged innovation capacity, but a technology which is less
So far more than 300 innovations arising from the HiPEAC
mature.
community have been featured on the Innovation Radar Platform, which is an impressive achievement. We look forward to seeing
• Market ready
even more innovations being highlighted in future.
Where both indicators are excellent. As a next step, projects are informed of any innovations identified
Have you received notification that your project will be featured on
as a result of this analysis and the innovations are published on
the Innovation Radar Platform? Let us know and we will help you
the Innovation Radar Platform (see ‘Further reading’, below).
promote it.
In addition, following the same Innovation Radar methodology, every year the Innovation Radar Prize is awarded to the technologies that are considered to be most promising. Open to a public vote, this award provides additional opportunities to boost the visibility of the selected technologies.
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FURTHER READING:
Innovation Radar Platform
innoradar.eu
Innovation Radar: Identifying Innovations and Innovators with High Potential in ICT FP7, CIP & H2020 Projects Giuditta De Prato, Daniel Nepelski, Giuseppe Piroli, 2015 bit.ly/JRC_Innovation_Radar
Five components from EPEEC selected by the Innovation Radar The
EPEEC
(European
joint
Effort toward a Highly Productive
Owner: Eta Scale, whose co-founder and chief executive is HiPEAC member Stefanos Kaxiras.
Programming Environment for Heterogeneous Exascale Computing) project aims to develop and deploy a parallel
The remaining three components selected were defined as ‘actively
programming environment to make heterogeneous, exascale
exploring value creation opportunities’ and ‘addressing the needs
platforms more manageable for programmers. Led by HiPEAC
of existing markets and existing customers’, respectively:
member Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center),
• GASPI: Global Address Space Programming Interface
the consortium is advancing programming models, runtime
Owner: Fraunhofer
systems, and tools with three overarching objectives in mind:
Highlighted as a female-led innovation, thanks to the
high coding productivity, high performance, and energy
leadership of EPEEC researcher Valeria Bartsch, who spoke at
awareness. See our interview with Antonio in HiPEACinfo 59
HiPEAC’s 2019 Computing Systems Week in Bilbao
for more information on the project.
• Extrae, Paraver and Dimemas: performance tools
Recently, an impressive five components from the EPEEC project
• OmpSs Parallel Programming Model
Owner: Barcelona Supercomputing Center have been selected by the Innovation Radar. Two of these were
Owner: Barcelona Supercomputing Center
considered market ready, with one even being awarded the Innovation Radar Prize, as follows:
A news piece was published on the EPEEC website and shared
• Parallelware technology: a static analysis tool aiming to
on social media to highlight these successes. Congratulations to
reduce the burden of making code parallel
all the teams involved!
Owner: Appentra Solutions, whose chief executive is HiPEAC member Manuel Arenaz. Highlighted as having a noteworthy level of market creation potential. Awarded the Innovation Radar Prize 2020 in the Innovative Science category. • ArgoDSM: a distributed shared memory system 24 HiPEACINFO 63
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Innovation Radar news on EPEEC website bit.ly/EPEEC_Innovation_Radar EPEEC components on the Innovation Radar Platform innoradar.eu/resultbykeyword/EPEEC
