SUPERCOM is the common experimental framework of the SAI RU, enabling data generation and collection, data exploration, and data processing. These three features are the basis for our research activities and span the three research lines of our RU.
From the architectural perspective, SUPERCOM comprises modular incorporation of: i) the Central Computing Engine, made of a pool of high-performance GPU-based clusters, ii) the Edge Computing Engine, which is a set of multi-access edge nodes with computing capabilities and, finally, iii) the On-Device Computing Engine, an ensemble of heterogeneous devices like smart sensors, machines (the IoT World testbed), wireless sniffers (LTE) and mobile phones providing low latency, data security and privacy with limited computing capabilities. The framework is also featured with a high-capacity storage system for our data.
The platform is controlled via ad hoc-designed software by the SAI researchers enabling multiple data processing and mining tools, spanning from real data collection and generation, data cleaning, preprocessing, and visualization to model building, results analysis, and informed decision-making. Note that software and data are made available to the research community upon request and under a Creative Commons license. A load manager is also under construction to share the computing power among the several requesting tasks. We are also working on an energy measurement platform (hardware plus software) to assess the power consumption of the different elements composing the platform for computational tractability and provide information for energy-aware optimization.