The SPHERE project aims at providing an integrated operating system framework to abstract the hardware complexity of cutting-edge multi-core platforms and simplify the management of heterogeneous computational resources. 

The proposed framework will address these challenges by providing methodologies and tools for:

- analyzing the execution behavior of the application tasks and predict their average and worst-case response times;

- enabling fast and predictable communication mechanisms between multiple computing nodes;

- enforcing security features to guarantee data integrity and nodes confidentiality.

The feasibility of the SPHERE framework will be validated in a highly relevant industrial use case: a pioneering autonomous driving system for the automotive domain.