About the EU FP7 project POLCA

The POLCA project (Programming Large Scale Heterogeneous Infrastructure) was started in September 2013 with the aim of addressing the complex programmability challenge for the ever-spreading heterogeneous systems in both areas: embedded and high performance computing.

The research conducted in POLCA proposed a sound innovative approach that put primary focus on defining and enabling high level, mathematically based transformations of the target application code along and a full path for interfacing to the different lower level backend compilers that are specific for each target hardware platform.

The project consortium brought together academic and industrial experts in the fields of HPC and embedded systems. The project was led by:

• the German University of Ulm

Partnership included the following partners

• the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart
• the Dutch University of Twente
• the Spanish “IMDEA Software Institute”
• the Spanish “Universidad Politécnica de Madrid”
• the Belgium “Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies” (CETIC)
• the British computing platform manufacturer “MAXELER Technologies”
• the fabless semiconductor company “RECORE Systems” from the Netherlands

For more information please check out http://www.polca-project.eu or contact [Lutz Schubert](<mailto:lutz.schubert@uni-ulm.de})