Descripción del proyecto
Soluciones revolucionarias que hacen más accesible al mercado en la nube
A pesar del auge mundial del mercado en la nube, sigue siendo el espacio exclusivo de unos pocos proveedores. Este hecho mantiene los precios altos y la calidad de los servicios bajos, a la vez que genera un efecto de dependencia de los proveedores. El proyecto STARCloud, financiado con fondos europeos, ofrece un revolucionario paradigma en la nube basado en cadenas de bloque que abordan la definición de la calidad de servicio (CdS) y la aplicación en sistemas totalmente distribuidos. El proyecto utilizará métodos formales para el análisis estático y el control de ejecución de la nueva generación de nubes a fin de crear un apoyo para la CdS. Además, introducirá nuevos métodos y herramientas, como mecanismos de consenso, un lenguaje específico de dominio para las definiciones de la CdS y herramientas de análisis formal de la CdS, así como un marco para el emparejamiento y la negociación de contratos inteligentes.
Objetivo
Today the cloud market is restricted to few providers, which entails higher prices, vendor lock-in and lower service quality. Smart Contracts (SC) and blockchain could reshape this market since they lower costs and provide trust without resorting to intermediaries. This paradigm, named blockchain-based clouds, prevents vendor lock-in and has the potential to make market's barriers so low that anyone with idle or spare computational resources can offer cloud services. The STARCloud project systematically utilises formal methods for the static analysis and runtime control of the next generation clouds for creating support for Quality of Service (QoS). To this aim, since the state-of-the-art solutions cannot be used in this domain, this project provides novel approaches and tools, including consensus mechanisms, a domain specific language for QoS definitions and QoS formal analysis tools, and a framework for the matchmaking and negotiation of SCs. Supporting QoS will boost the adoption of decentralised clouds; thus reducing prices and environmental impact; and improving QoS, which make the cloud providers and consumers that use blockchain-based clouds more competitive, specially in Europe, where the most advanced commercial solutions are located. Moreover, these solutions will enable geographically sparse micro and traditional cloud providers to join the market, which will leverage cloud and edge computing in Europe. The project is timely and, besides involving collaborators from many of the best European research institutes, it is supervised by I. Brandic, one of the main cloud experts in the world and actively involves one of the main players in the market: iExec. Overall, the solutions proposed here will contribute to the disruptive blockchain-based cloud paradigm and find immediate use in industry and academia by addressing the fundamental requirement of most cloud consumers, in particular business: QoS definition and enforcement in completely distributed systems.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
1040 Wien
Austria