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Inside: Your Hipeac Jobs Poster INFO 51 APPEARS QUARTERLY | JULY 2017 Inside: your HiPEAC Jobs poster Team Europe: A workforce for the digital age Martin Kersten’s forgetful databases Made in Croatia: the world’s fastest electric car contents 4 12 15 Digital skills for a ‘Data will rot away like Team Europe. competitive Europe everything in nature’ Getting the brains to power the digital revolution 3 Welcome 26 Innovation Europe Koen De Bosschere The Heterogeneous Hardware and Software Alliance 4 Policy corner Karim Djemame and Oliver Barreto Digital skills for a competitive Europe 28 Peac performance Heidi Cigan Parallelizing Python codes using the superscalar paradigm 12 HiPEAC voices ‘Data will rot away like everything in nature’ Rosa Badia Martin Kersten 30 Technology opinion Neuromorphic Computing: low-power systems, 14 HiPEAC Jobs the brainy way Trends in computing systems jobs Kemal Delic and Dave Penkler Xavier Salazar and Anna Molinet 31 Technology entrepreneurship 15 Recruitment special Keep the revolution going Team Europe: Getting the brains to power the digital revolution Colin Adams Sabri Pllana, Marisa Gil, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, 33 Industry focus Alexey Cheptsov, Marc Gonzalez Vidal, Bev Bachmayer, Cache-aware Roofline Model in Intel® Advisor Graham Mudd, Angela Bradfield, Meenakshi Ravindran Leonel Sousa, Aleksandar Ilić and Frederico Pratas and Karon Davis 35 SME snapshot 22 Inside the box Rimac Automobili: The drive to succeed Well hello, AXIOM board! Aco Momčilović, Matija Gracin and Marta Longin Maurizio Caporali, Davide Catani and Xavier Martorell 24 Innovation Europe 36 HiPEAC futures UpScale framework for real-time HPC applications Career talk: Michael Hübner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum HiPEAC collaboration grants: When Manchester met Luis Miguel Pinho ‘Silicon Island’, Crete 25 Innovation Europe HiPEAC internships: Transport safety as standard InnoHPC brings HPC to the Danube region Three-minute thesis: Memory access control which is Karina Pešatová right on time 2 HiPEACINFO 51 welcome 28 31 35 Parallelizing Python Keep the revolution going The drive to succeed This issue is about digital skills. As the director of the computer engineering degree of Ghent University for more than 10 years, this subject is close to my heart. Two large ICT companies in Belgium have more open positions every year for computer engineers than the total number of graduates in one year in Ghent. That is painful for them, but they can still recruit internationally. Startup companies that do not find local talent face more serious issues. Every month I receive emails from desperate startup founders who have the money to hire computer engineers, but simply cannot find them. Hence, the lack of qualitied ICT workers is slowing down innovation. In 2016, Google published a report titled ‘Digitizing Belgium’, concluding that digiti­ zation could lead to more than 300,000 jobs by 2020, or 100,000 per year from now on. Yet we know how many computing experts will graduate in 2020 from the numbers currently at university: at master’s level, there will be less than 1,000 for Belgium as a HiPEAC is the European network on whole. At best, taking into account all business­related ICT degrees and STEM degrees high performance and embedded architecture that include decent software development skills, we might end up with 10 times more, and compilation. not 100 times more. All well­intended digitization plans (the internet of things, Industrie 4.0, Smart Anything Everywhere, etc.) will fail to deliver their full potential if we do not fix the workforce issue first. Structurally increasing the number of graduates will take up to 10 years hipeac.net because we have to start by sparking interest for computing at high­school level. Retraining people could help in the short term, but a six­month training course will @hipeac hipeac.net/linkedin never be a substitute for a four­ to five­year university degree. This is particularly HiPEAC has received funding important given the complexity of modern information processing systems. Producing from the European Union’s inefficient and incorrect software leads to the accumulation of technical debt, to failing Horizon 2020 research and systems, to security, safety and privacy issues. innovation programme under Many of you will be reading this issue at the HiPEAC summer school, ACACES, which grant agreement no. 687698. is our contribution to training the crème de la crème of computing experts in Europe. You will find a HiPEAC Jobs poster inside: by posting this at your organization, you will Design: www.magelaan.be also help ensure the best candidates find their ideal jobs. Editor: Madeleine Gray We wish you a relaxing summer, and we hope to see you again after the summer Email: [email protected] holiday in good health, and full of plans for the year to come. Koen De Bosschere, HiPEAC coordinator HiPEACINFO 51 3 Policy corner Digital skills for a competitive Europe In a special guest piece for HiPEACinfo, Heidi Cigan of the Directorate- General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission gives us the latest on the digital transformation, the need for new skills and the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. Digital technologies are advancing and Schools still lag behind in terms of digital leading to the development of everything education. Equipment is still lacking in from digital medical diagnosis and auto­ many places and teachers, though often nomous vehicles to drones and smart willing, lack the skills and confidence to fridges. Where digital was once a sector, it make the most out of digital tools for is increasingly spreading to the whole learning and teaching the next generation economy as society undergoes a digital how to use them. Digital tools are under­ transformation. used in the classroom and most students are still not taught the basics of computer This digital transformation of the economy science and how to code – skills and com­ and society is also accelerating. The pace petences that are increasingly becoming of technological adoption is speeding up. essential for an understanding of the New technologies enter the market and world we live in. In higher education, are being taken up more quickly than ever graduations in computer science have before. For example, while it took decades fallen substantially over the past 10 years for the telephone to reach 50 % of house­ and those students who do graduate are holds, it took mobile phones less than five often not considered work ready by years to reach the same penetration rate. employers. Today in Europe, there are 137 mobile phone subscriptions for every 100 people. It is hardly surprising, then, that we do Smart phones reached 40 % penetration not have enough of the skilled technology in just 10 years. New technologies such as experts – big data experts, cloud deve­ cloud services and social networks are lopers and cyber­security experts – we also being rapidly taken up. Indeed, in need for the new jobs emerging in the 2016, 62 % of internet users and 45 % of economy. In fact, Europe already has a enterprises in the European Union used large and growing deficit of digital experts. social networks. From 373,000 in 2015, this gap could grow to around half a million by 2020. To use these new technologies and ensure individuals, companies, regions and coun­ Digitally skilled workers are lacking at all tries get the benefit from them, people levels and in all sectors. For industry, and need to be able to use and work with the economy more broadly, to digitize, them. However, while technological workers in all sectors need to develop new develop ment and adoption is speeding up, skills to work in the digitized workplace people’s skills and the education and and to remain employable. However, 37 % training systems that are there to develop of the labour force in the EU lacks basic them are slower to adapt. skills for the use of digital technologies. Furthermore, while most companies are aware that lacking digital skills in their 4 HiPEACINFO 51 Policy corner Digital skills for a competitive Europe workforces negatively affect business per­ The Commission is also working with in Rome, the Commission announced the formance, most do not provide oppor­ Member States, through an expert group, launch of a new multi­million euro ‘Digital tunities for their employees to re­skill. to support the development of national Opportunity’ pilot scheme to provide digital skills strategies. The group has put intern ships for current and recent To support the development of digital together a joint strategy document which graduates of all disciplines in digital skills in Europe, on 1 December 2016 the collects the main challenges faced and domains. It is envisaged that these intern­ European Commission launched the solutions found by Member States in the ships should focus on ‘deep tech’ skills Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. The area of digital skills. A selection of best such as such as cybersecurity, big data, Coalition brings together stakeholders practices has been linked to it and quantum or artificial intelligence, as well from, for example, industry, education, published online as a tool to be used for as on more horizontal activities such as government and social partners to share the development of digital skills strategies web design, digital marketing, software best practices and make ‘pledges’ to and replication of solutions that work. development, coding or graphic design. provide training and carry out other The pilot scheme will initially run for two activities, such as awareness­raising activi­ Since its launch, the Coalition has attrac ted years from 2018­2020 and will support up ties, to increase the digital skills of over 200 member organisations and around to 6,000 paid internships. European citizens. 70 pledges. Sixteen National Coalitions are in operation or being developed.
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