FORTH is one of the largest research centers in Greece, with modern facilities, highly qualified staff, and global recognition as a top-level research institution.
KALEAO designs and manufactures advanced computing systems and offers global scale computing solutions based on innovative approaches.
For these developments, Manolis Kateavinis, Head of the CARV Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Institute of Informatics (ICS) of FORTH, said: "We are proud of the 33-time history of FORTH and ICS, as well as of the CARV Lab in which they were built many original hardware and software. We are also very pleased with our cooperation with KALEAO, a truly innovative company at the cutting edge and leading edge of modern high technology, and we look forward to many further joint innovations. We feel that we have reached one of our goals, to make Crete an environment of research and development at the forefront of world-class high technology, attractive to computer scientists and engineers in hardware design and systems software, to which I openly invite to come and to participate in the creation of a constantly evolving and dynamic technological development ".
In this ITE statement, Professor John Goodacre, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of KALEAO, added: "We are particularly pleased with our development center in Crete and our collaboration with ITE, which has resulted in the design of key components of the iconic our product, KMAX. The growing research focus of the CARV Laboratory at ITE and the new KALEAO development center in Heraklion we expect will bring even greater collaboration between ITE and industry, which will create new exciting academic and work opportunities in silicon semiconductor technology (silicon – the material constructions, today, of all computers and telecommunications) in Crete, this beautiful island that can now also be called the new "Silicon-Island".
FORTH started its collaboration with the founders of KALEAO in EuroServer, a research project of its FP7 programme Europeanof the Union. The EuroServer focuses on innovation and the introduction of new computing systems that allow the energy-efficient service offerings in the very large-scale server market ("server").
One of his goals EuroServer is the research and innovation of the core components of ARM-based "micro-servers" (the most popular "core" of smart phones). FORTH, as a member of the project, designed several prototype central circuits for EuroServer, including major operating system software components. These systems take advantage of the very high energy savings offered by ARM processors to meet the low IT requirements of the industry.
"The biggest problem with data centers today is the increasing consumption of electricity they require," added Professor Manolis Kateavinis. "It is estimated that if the US data centers were a country on their own, this country would be 12 in the world in electricity consumption, somewhere between Italy and Spain."
To reduce their energy consumption, data centers need to build their servers using new approaches to their platform and more cost-effective components. KALEAO takes advantage of ARM's technologies in a platform that is able to provide data centers and IT infrastructure with unprecedented computing capabilities in energy saving, site density, versatility, and simplicity.
Last week, KALEAO announced its new commercial product, KMAX, which offers a rack-compatible platform with real technology convergence and software with the simplicity of consumer devices. The KMAX, energy-saving and ARM-based, offers 192 eight-core servers and 48 locations for solid state drives (SSDs) that all fit them at just 3U (units) of height into the scaffold.
"Today's data centers contain hundreds to tens of thousands of servers (server computers) and are the backbone of information and communication technology," commented Professor John Goodacre, adding that "KALEAO's KMAX model offers a platform with real convergence of technologies and with the simplicity of consumer products, resulting in lower total cost and operation costs, while at the same time offering a rich list of services, including those of the World th web, databases, social networks, telephony, transactions on-line, and intelligent data storage ".
FORTH is a founding partner of FORTH HiPEAC, the European High-Performance and Embedded Computer Architecture and Translation Compilation Network, which coordinates European research in these areas, KALEAO is also a member of the same network. FORTH's technological innovation continues through its participation in a group of three European projects funded by Horizon 2020, which further develop the above technological approach: ExaNeSt, ExaNoDeAnd ECOSCALE.
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