Editing EDGELESS

==[[EU Project short name::EDGELESS]]==
===[[EU Project full name::Cognitive edge-cloud with serverless computing]]===
'''Full project details (EU Research results portal):''' [[CORDIS URL::https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101092950]]

=== '''Project description:''' ===
EDGELESS is set to efficiently operate serverless computing in extremely diverse computing environments from resource-constrained edge devices to highly-virtualised cloud platforms. By taking advantage of AI/ML solutions, it will enable automatic deployment and reconfiguration to fully exploit compute resources available on clusters of nearby edge nodes. EDGELESS will define novel orchestration systems that provide a flexible horizontally scalable compute solution able to fully use heterogeneous edge resources, while preserving vertical integration with the cloud and the benefits of serverless, including its application programming model. It will address edge systems at design stage, particularly targeting low-latency, high-reliability applications with computationally-intensive tasks, requiring specialised hardware or a trusted environment. This ambitious challenge will be met via distributed computing solutions to partition the edge environment in clusters, each managed as a local decentralised serverless platform. In each cluster, orchestration and scheduling of jobs will run smoothly thanks to real-time monitoring of short-term load/network/energy conditions and anticipatory AI-powered algorithms to manage lightweight virtualised lambda executors, e.g., unikernels. Environmental sustainability will be boosted by dynamically concentrating resources physically (e.g., by temporarily switching off far-edge devices) or logically (e.g., by dispatching tasks towards a specific set of nodes), at the expense of performance-tolerant applications. Clusters will cooperate with each other and with all the layers in the edge-cloud continuum to compose complex applications on-demand through a FaaS paradigm. EDGELESS innovations will be validated through testbeds (near-edge MEC and two small-device lab setups), integrated through a federated edge-cloud infrastructure, and three pilots: Autonomous Smart City Surveillance, Internet of Robotic Things, and HealthCare Assistants.

'''EuroVoc IDs:''' [[EuroVoc ID::/natural sciences/computer and information sciences/internet]]
'''EU Programme:'''
[[Programme::Horizon Europe]]

=== '''Relevant IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture components:''' ===
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Management]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Monitoring and Alerting]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Performance Management]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Operation Automation]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Security and compliance]]''',
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Sustainability]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Benchmark, Metrics and Monitoring]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Application layer]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Application Designer]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Application Packager]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::API Gateway]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Data layer]]'''
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Data Pipelines]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Data Modelling]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::AI Layer]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Cloud-Edge Training]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Cloud-Edge Inference]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Service orchestration]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Service Orchestrator]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Application Performance Management]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Application Repository]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Cloud Edge Platform]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Cloud Edge Connectivity Manager]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Serverless Orchestrator (FaaS)]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Virtualization]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Virtual Infrastructure Manager (IaaS)]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Physical Cloud Edge Resources]]''',
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Compute]],
[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture::Storage]],
'''[[IPCEI-CIS Reference Architecture high level::Physical Network Resources]]'''