Project description
Design, deployment and AI-based runtime management of compute-continuum systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate computational algorithms and physical components, which are used in applications like smart grids, medical monitoring, as well as autonomous automobile, industrial control and robotics systems. The EU-funded MYRTUS project aims at unlocking the new living dimension of CPS, embracing the principles of the TransContinuum Initiative, integrating edge, fog and cloud computing platforms. This integration requires the reinvention of programming languages and tools to orchestrate collaborative distributed and decentralised components. Additionally, components must be augmented with interface contracts covering both functional and non-functional properties. MYRTUS solutions play a crucial role in enabling sustainable computing and trustworthiness in CPS. The project collaborates with relevant initiatives, including IPCEI, Gaia-X and the TransContinuum Initiative to establish synergies and promote strategic industrial partnerships.
Objective
The “Multi-layer 360° dYnamic orchestration and interopeRable design environmenT for compute-continUum Systems (MYRTUS)” project aims to provide the technology to make CPS evolving towards a living dimension, embracing the technological principles of the TransContinuum Initiative where “edge, fog and cloud computing platforms are being pulled closer together into a seamless execution environment” and “programming has to be reinvented, with languages and tools to orchestrate collaborative distributed and decentralised components, as well as components augmented with interface contracts covering both functional and non-functional properties”. MYRTUS puts together different technologies to design and operate complex, distributed, and heterogeneous CPS computing infrastructures, leveraging diverse cloud to edge technologies, including from off the shelf CPUs to custom AI accelerators, offered by multiple providers. Main MYRTUS results are (i) the MYRTUS reference infrastructure, comprising a diversity of heterogeneous, autonomous, federated and collaborative computing nodes distributed across the computing continuum; (ii) a novel management scheme featuring MIRTO, an AI-powered cognitive engine capable of orchestrating, at 360°, the whole continuum infrastructure, and (iii) the MYRTUS design and programming environment to design, deploy, and operate such complex infrastructures. MYRTUS solutions represent the instruments to unlock the new living dimension of CPS, pursuing also sustainable and responsible computing, openness, security and trustworthiness, and promoting strategic industrial cooperations by establishing synergies with relevant initiatives and projects, as IPCEI, Gaia-X, TransContinuum Initiative. Technology assessment is carried out within two challenging scenarios, Healthcare and Mobility, involving humans.
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Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
07100 SASSARI SS
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.