Dr Henk Muller, Principal Technologist at XMOS, who is overseeing the company’s involvement, commented: “The ENTRA project is designed to analyze and predict energy usage and make these predictions available to system developers. By optimizing code development it will be possible to create more energy efficient computer systems, something which is crucial when developing technologies that meet the increasing green credentials that we all demand.
ENTRA has recently been awarded €2.1 million by the European commission to help in its goal of promoting energy-aware software development using advanced program analysis and modeling of energy consumption in computer systems.
XMOS is part of a consortium of four organizations collaborating on the project, including Roskilde University in Denmark, the University of Bristol in the UK, and the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid.