Use cases and Requirements 1

First Report on: OPERA’s requirement across different domains coming from stakeholders of the project and regarding both technological, energy and innovation aspects covering: · Technologies involved: hardware and software, platforms, protocols and interconnections between internal modules, power management frameworks, virtualization and cloud computing, security and interoperability, etc.; · Application scenarios: specific use cases, extension to more generic scenarios, pilot applications, real life workloads and impacts, etc.; · Energy efficiency: 2013 state of the art on server’s consumption, ultra-low power systems, cloud computing workload management, power managements, energy metrics, etc. · Relation with other initiatives: EU roadmaps, advanced computing challenges, improvements in energy efficiency.