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PLATON TO DELIVER SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE FOR LARGE-SCALE DATA SERIES PROCESSING Funded by the European Commission as a Marie Skłodowska-
The proposed research project has the potential for significant
Curie Individual Fellowship, and lasting a year, PLATON, led by
economic and social impact in Europe, given that multiple
Professor Panagiota Fatourou, focuses on solutions for large-
scientific and industrial fields are currently in need of the right
scale data series processing.
tools to handle their massive collections of data series – a fact acknowledged by the European data strategy.
Today, processing large collections of real-world data series is a major challenge for a wide range of application domains,
PROJECT NAME: PLATON: Platform-aware LArge-scale Time-Series
including finance, seismology and other earth sciences,
prOcessiNg
astrophysics, neuroscience, engineering, and so on. Due to
START/END DATE: 01/10/2021 – 30/09/2022
recent advances in the development of modern scientific
EU Call: H2020-EU.1.3. | H2020-EU.1.3.2.
instruments in earth sciences and the growing importance
KEY THEMES: data series processing
of the internet of things (IoT), data series collections are
Coordinated by: Université de Paris, France
experiencing an unprecedented growth in size. One of the most
CONTACT INFORMATION:
pressing issues in data series processing, therefore, is achieving
Panagiota Fatourou, LIPADE - University of Paris
enhanced performance and high scalability.
faturu@csd.uoc.gr Themis Palpanas, LIPADE - University of Paris
PLATON aims to deliver solutions for large-scale data series
themis@mi.parisdescartes.fr
processing that meet such performance and scalability goals.
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Specifically, PLATON aspires to build, for the first time, the
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necessary methods, algorithms and tools for highly efficient,
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scalable, and fault-tolerant processing of huge collections
PLATON Project - Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions
of data series. Scalability will be achieved by exploiting the
Platon Project - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action
full computational capacity (multiple nodes, multiple cores, This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
PLATON will demonstrate its value proposition using real
research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-
datasets from different domains.
Curie grant agreement no. 101031688.
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accelerators) of modern computing platforms. Meanwhile,
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