Description du projet
Les applications de nouvelle génération en périphérie
L’edge computing (informatique en périphérie) révolutionne la manière dont les géants du Cloud tels que Google et Microsoft manipulent, traitent et fournissent des données provenant de millions de dispositifs situés aux quatre coins du monde. Elle réduit la distance entre l’utilisateur et le serveur et minimise la latence. Comparé au cloud computing, l’edge computing est plus «démocratique» du fait de sa nature distribuée et localisée. C’est pour cela que l’edge computing devrait jouer un rôle de premier plan dans les technologies de pointe du futur. Le projet ACCORDION, financé par l’UE, considère qu’en associant l’edge computing à des technologies avancées telles que la 5G, l’UE sera en mesure de capitaliser sur ses ressources et infrastructures locales et d’en faire bénéficier ses PME. Le projet définit une approche pratique pour connecter les ressources et les infrastructures en périphérie afin de soutenir les applications de nouvelle génération.
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There is an increasing number of signs that the edge computing concept is going to play a dominant role in the forthcoming technology developments, disrupting economies at a large scale. The big cloud providers promptly jumped in to get the lion’s share but edge computing is intrinsically more “democratic” than cloud computing. In fact, its distributed and localized nature can be an antibody for big trusts, if properly exploited. Synergistically employing edge computing with upcoming technologies such as 5G provides an opportunity for EU to capitalize on its local resource and infrastructure and its SME-dominated application development landscape and achieve an edge-computing-driven disruption with a local business scope. To this end, ACCORDION establishes an opportunistic approach in bringing together edge resource/infrastructures (public clouds, on-premise infrastructures, telco resources, even end-devices) in pools defined in terms of latency, that can support NextGen application requirements. To mitigate the expectation that these pools will be “sparse”, providing low availability guarantees, ACCORDION will intelligently orchestrate the compute & network continuum formed between edge and public clouds, using the latter as a capacitor. Deployment decisions will be taken also based on privacy, security, cost, time and resource type criteria. The slow adoption rate of novel technological concepts from the EU SMEs will be tackled though an application framework, that will leverage DevOps and SecOps to facilitate the transition to the ACCORDION system. With a strong emphasis on European edge computing efforts (MEC, OSM) and 3 highly anticipated NextGen applications on collaborative VR, multiplayer mobile- and cloud-gaming, brought by the involved end users, ACCORDION is expecting to radically impact the application development and deployment landscape, also directing part of the related revenue from non-EU vendors to EU-local infrastructure and application providers.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
00185 Roma
Italie