Hydra is affilliated with the following programs and organisations:
The Hydra coordinater FhG FIT is a member of ARTEMISIA, the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS: Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems.
The Hydra middleware allows developers to create inclusive applications with a high degree of accessibility for all. The Hydra project supports the Commissions campaign: eInclusion - be part of it!
The Hydra project is part of the Cluster of European projects on the Internet of Things. The Cluster aims to promote a common vision of the Internet of Things.
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The main objective of the
project is to develop the enabling technology and infrastructure
required to effectively use the most advanced techniques developed for
real-time applications with flexible scheduling requirements, in
embedded systems design methodologies and tools, providing the necessary
elements to target re-configurable processing modules and
re-configurable distributed architectures.
The
approach to achieve this main objective is to integrate advanced
flexible scheduling techniques directly into an embedded systems design
methodology, covering all the levels involved in the implementation,
from the OS primitives, through the middleware, up to the application
level. This will be achieved by creating a contract model that specifies
which are the application requirements with respect to the flexible use
of the processing resources in the system, and also what are the
resources that must be guaranteed if the component is to be installed
into the system, and how the system can distribute any spare capacity
that it has, to achieve the highest usage of the available resources.
Relevance to HYDRA:
This contract-based methodology requires, for each
resource, an underlying implementation that is capable of enforcing the
reservations implied by the different active contracts. The contracts
will be integrated with a component-based framework, and will provide
the required level of abstraction to make the component model
independent of the underlying implementation and hardware architecture.
The framework will be portable across different scheduling strategies
and platforms. Because of the dynamic nature of the contracts and the
independence that they provide among the different real-time components
of the application, the methodology is well suited to address very
dynamic systems, such as those based on re-configurable architectures.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
