THE INCREASE OF THE NUMBER OF TRANSISTORS IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS COMBINED WITH THE END OF DENNARD'S SCALING HAS POSITIONED ENERGY CONSUMPTION AS THE PRIMARY FACTOR THAT CONSTRAINS THE PERFORMANCE OF CURRENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS, PROMOTING THE USE OF HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTERS._x000D_ _x000D_ IN THIS SCENARIO, THE PROJECT TACCERE WILL CONTRIBUTE, AS A GENERAL OBJECTIVE, TO THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES, PROGRAMMING INTERFACES AND TOOLS, COMPUTATIONAL KERNELS, LIBRARIES OF ALGORITHMS AND RUNTIME FRAMEWORKS, THAT REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION, INCREASE RESILIENCE TO ERRORS, AND IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATIONS THAT DEAL WITH VAST AMOUNTS OF DATA AND EXHIBIT IRREGULAR PARALLEL PATTERNS. AS A GENERIC COMPUTER TARGET, THE PROJECT WILL CONSIDER AN HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE, DUE TO THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ADVANTAGE OF THIS TYPE OF SYSTEMS, TOGETHER WITH A HYBRID MPI+X PROGRAMMING MODEL, WHERE X CAN BE REPLACED BY ANY OF THE CURRENT MULTI-THREADED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES SUCH AS OPENMP, OPENACC, OPENCL, CUDA, ETC. _x000D_ _x000D_ ACHIEVING THE GOALS OF THE PROJECT WILL REQUIRE AN INTENSIVE RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN TOPICS SUCH AS BALANCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION-ERRORS-FAULT TOLERANCE, MALLEABILITY OF COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES, INTEROPERABILITY OF PROGRAMMING MODELS, APPROXIMATE COMPUTING TECHNIQUES, AND COMMUNICATION-AVOIDING ALGORITHMS, AMONG OTHERS. AS AN ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION, THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO THREE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS, IN COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCH GROUPS THAT CONDUCT THEIR INVESTIGATION IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND SIGNAL PROCESSING.