Descrizione del progetto
Introdurre un quadro che migliori la fornitura di servizi cloud in Europa
Il progetto PHYSICS, finanziato dall’UE, sta permettendo ai fornitori di servizi cloud europei di sfruttare modelli cloud all’avanguardia, scalabili e convenienti, come quelli di tipo FaaS (Function-as-a-Service, ovvero funzione come servizio), gestiti attraverso più tipi di hardware, luoghi, nodi di edge computing e risorse multi-cloud. Il progetto applicherà una soluzione verticale consistente in un ambiente di progettazione cloud che permetta di progettare flussi di lavoro visivi e un FaaS ottimizzato a livello di piattaforma. Una serie di strumenti di ottimizzazione back-end dovrebbe consentire ai fornitori di servizi cloud di migliorare le prestazioni delle risorse di base, affrontando questioni come i problemi di avvio a freddo, l’interferenza multi-tenant e la localizzazione dei dati. I risultati del progetto saranno convalidati in tre ambiti: sanità elettronica, agricoltura e produzione.
Obiettivo
PHYSICS empowers European CSPs exploit the most modern, scalable and cost-effective cloud model (FaaS), operated across multiple service and hardware types, provider locations, edge, and multi-cloud resources. To this end, it applies a unified continuum approach, including functional and operational management across sites and service stacks, performance through the relativity of space (location of execution) and time (of execution), enhanced by semantics of application components and services. PHYSICS applies this scope via a vertical solution consisting of a:
-Cloud Design Environment, enabling design of visual workflows of applications, exploiting provided generalized Cloud design patterns functionalities with existing application components, easily integrated and used with FaaS platforms, including incorporation of application-level control logic and adaptation to the FaaS model.
-Optimized Platform Level FaaS Service, enabling CSPs to acquire a cross-site FaaS platform middleware including multi-constraint deployment optimization, runtime orchestration and reconfiguration capabilities, optimizing FaaS application placement and execution as well as state handling within functions, while cooperating with provider-local policies
-Backend Optimization Toolkit, enabling CSPs to enhance their baseline resources performance, tackling issues such as cold-start problems, multitenant interference and data locality through automated and multi-purpose techniques.
PHYSICS will produce an Artefacts Marketplace (RAMP), in which internal and external entities (developers, researchers etc) will be able to contribute fine-grained reusable artifacts (functions, flows, controllers etc).
PHYSICS will contribute to open source tools and initiatives/policies (Gaia-X, Green Deal, EOSC, Eur. Strategy for Data), while validating the outcomes in 3 real-world applications (eHealth, Agriculture and Manufacturing), making a business, societal and environmental impact on EU citizen life
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
20139 Milano
Italia