The theme of this workshop was reporting on progress for the first collaborative research projects and taking energy transparency research to the next level. Special focus of this workshop was on presenting the first results of working together in our newly established industry-academic collaborations. At the 4th EACO workshop in April 2012 we identified several seed projects towards solving some of the Intellectual Challenges put forward at previous EACO workshops. First results from these projects will be presented and opened up for discussion with an aim to determine next steps and to widen participation.
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Introduction to the EU-FP7-FET MINECC ENergy TRAnsparency (ENTRA) project

John Gallagher, Roskilde University

The “Whole Systems ENergy TRAnsparency (ENTRA)” project is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme Future and Emerging Technologies Objective “Minimizing Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit”. The goal of the ENTRA project is to promote energy-aware system development, using advanced energy modelling and program analysis techniques to make predictions of energy usage available to the system developer and tool chain. This will enable optimizations both during code development and at run-time and lead to more energyefficient computer systems. The ENTRA consortium includes researchers from Roskilde University, Denmark, the IMDEA Research Institute in Madrid, Spain, the University of Bristol and XMOS as technology provider. The ENTRA project started on 1st October 2012 with funding for 3 years. The consortium is actively seeking opportunities to connect to further industrial partners for feedback and new evaluation case studies.

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