About

EuReCCA is a pan-European virtual center of top-class research institutions in computer systems architecture being currently organized by Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Barcelona Supercomputer Center and UPC (Spain), FORTH-ICS and Univ. of Crete (Greece), other European Architecture academic and research Labs (INRIA-IRISA-ALF, U.Augsburg-SIK), and in close collaboration with many European computer systems companies.

Computer systems will increasingly face challenges concerning programmability, performance, energy efficiency, and reliability, driven by demands of emerging ICT services and applications. EuReCCA, with its associated world-class research institutions, is committed to tackle these challenges, together with industry leaders in computing systems, by cutting-edge research, education, and innovation in computer systems architecture in order to maintain European industry leadership in computer systems.

The three cornerstones that form the agenda for EuReCCA are:

Excellence in research, to tackle the most challenging long-term problems, at the same time as implementing prototypes. EuReCCA aims at executing along a consolidated research agenda, leveraging on complementary skills, sharing knowledge, tools, and infrastructure, and building on the HiPEAC Roadmap with the goal of maintaining leadership in high-performance and embedded computer systems.

Excellence in Education, to equip our future innovators with the right skill set for European industry leadership in computing systems. EuReCCA aims for collaborative studies at multiple institutions, including course work, team projects, research, prototyping, industrial internships, and entrepreneurship, leading to Joint M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees.

Excellence in Innovation Management, to be leaders of new markets through acceleration of innovation to existing and new industrial actors. We aim to create an ecosystem for accelerating innovation and commercial exploitation, by tracking industry's needs, concerns, and methods continuously, by performing industrially-relevant research and education.

EuReCCA is needed because the complexity of computer design increases dramatically, and solutions to problems require holistic approaches. We aim to consolidate expertise in one virtual center – a Eurolab – to exploit complementarities and synergies of scale, to attract to Europe and keep here the best researchers, and thus nurture industrial development. EuReCCA's ambitions are to become a top-ranking world center in computer architecture, create the proper critical mass, provide the foundations for the next generation computing industry, raise public awareness of computing and architecture, and significantly improve the technology transfer climate and the number of startup companies in Europe.