Co-design activities between hardware engineers and application developers mainly take place during two phases of the project: In the very beginning the requirements of the applications heavily influence the design of the DEEP-ER architecture, e.g. the size of the storage or the type of network topology. Towards the end of the project another hardware-applications co-design cycle is essential to evaluate the prototype system.
Examples:
- Defining the best NAM use cases
- Determining the network topology
- Defining the DEEP-ER prototype architecture
- Defining DEEP-ER components characteristics (e.g. DDR4 memory on KNL)