PRO3D, or “ Programming for Future 3D Architecture with Many Cores ”, is a FP7 project funded by the EU under grant agreement n° 248 776. PRO3D belongs to theme “ 3.6 Computing Systems ”.
The project started on January 1 st and was successfully completed on December 31 st , 2012. This page presents the summary of the project achievements.
During the last three decades, the performance of microprocessors & microcontrollers has steadily increased at the impressive rate of 100 times per decade. This was fuelled by: (1) The exponential growth in clock speeds; (2) The exponential growth in the number of transistors per die; and (3) The acceleration of instruction flows obtained by various techniques for reducing latency and maximising the amount of computation per clock cycle.