More than 4.000 exhibitors, over 1.900 trade show premieres, almost 70.000 on-site attendees from around the whole world, including famous politicians such as the chancellor of Germany or Indonesian president, caused that the spirit of excitement and optimism permeate the halls at HANNOVER MESSE.

One of the biggest topics of HANNOVER MESSE 2023 were among others Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Energy Management, and CO2 neutral production. Therefore, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) was keen to present the PHYSICS H2020 Project, and smart manufacturing use cases:

1. Deployment of substitute service in the Cloud
2. High Confidence Quality Control

See use cases description Blogpost: Industrial Use Cases of FaaS: The basics you need to know

Since the presentation was carried out at SmartFactory-KL booth which was visited by an estimated 4.000 visitors within 5 days of the fair, it was the great opportunity to introduce the project to a wide audience interested in innovation solutions for production and show that smart manufacturing sector can significantly benefit from the use of the Function as a Service (FaaS) paradigm. Moreover, the DFKI showed the advantage of using the PHYSICS platform, which can offer a manufacturer-independent solution for the FaaS and thus simplify the development and scalability of the plant in the future. In addition to the live presentation, the PHYSICS logo was displayed throughout the fair at the SmartFactory-KL stand and passively promoted the project.

Although the first FaaS services were already implemented a couple years ago, a topic that aroused particular interest was the use of computer power on-demand and its potential to reduce running and maintenance costs of a factory. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that thanks to PHYSICS platform, which can offer redundancy of services provided by physical modules, it is possible to decrease the unplanned downtimes, and increase the reliability and stability of the production line. Overall, the concept of the PHYSICS platform using FaaS paradigm was received with interest by both industrial and research visitors.

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PHYSICS and CHARITY projects join forces to organise a webinar entitled “Opening up the Cloud Edge Continuum to new generations of applications”. The webinar aims to bring together audiences with an interest in the Cloud Edge Continuum and showcase the projects’ contributions in this area.

AGENDA

• Introduction by the webinar moderator, Uwe Herzog (Eurescom, CHARITY)
• CHARITY Project
  – CHARITY project overview (Dr. Tarik Taleb – ICTFICIAL)
  – Overview and demonstration of CHARITY blueprint design framework (Paolo Barone – Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
• PHYSICS project
  – CHARITY project overview (Fabrizio Di Peppo – GFT)
  – Introduction and demonstration of the PHYSICS FaaS Design Environment (Dr. Georgios Kousiouris – Harokopio University of Athens)
• Q&A

PHYSICS and CHARITY projects aim to improve the ability of application developers and service providers to create and deploy advanced applications for the Cloud2Edge Continuum as  CHARITY addresses XR applications, PHYSICS serverless (FaaS) applications.

CHARITY provides an environment to facilitate the composition of application blueprints,
specifying component microservices, resource slices and virtual links into a TOSCA template, ready for the runtime orchestrator to provision and manage its lifecycle.
PHYSICS offers a design environment allowing to graphical create abstract annotated workflows of composite applications, that the platform later translates into actionable FaaS sequences, in a DevOps chain allowing local pre-deployment functional testing

Both projects provide advanced lifecycle management of deployed applications,
able to dynamically control and optimize the allocation of application components based
on their respective KPIs.

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Application period is about to start!

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program designed to bring new, excited contributors into open source communities, with the hope that they will continue to contribute to open source communities long after their GSoC program ends. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program designed to bring new, excited contributors into open source communities, with the hope that they will continue to contribute to open source communities long after their GSoC program ends.

Partners of the PHYSICS project will be mentoring through ELLAK, the greek free and open source community, with a focus on implementing workflow, parallelization and cloud design patterns in Node-RED for Function as Service coordination:

You may follow the PHYSICS project activities on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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