The PHYSICS consortium cordially invites you to the external stakeholders evaluation with the topic “Strategies for enhancing application modernization in the serverless cloud/edge era,” which aims to showcase the three pilot applications of the PHYSICS project.

The PHYSICS project focuses on the implementation of Function as a Service (FaaS) in serverless computing, which emphasizes the development of individual functions or business logic, and is scalable and efficient. The PHYSICS project has identified three pilot partners from key industries: Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Agriculture.

The external stakeholders evaluation workshop aims to present the project’s outputs to external communities and demonstrate how they can be utilized. Participants will have the opportunity to witness the implementation of the FaaS model in each pilot application and to clarify open questions and give feedback afterwards.

The workshop will cover the following subjects:

• 10:00 – 10:10 CET General overview of PHYSICS project and platform
• 10:00 – 11:40 CET Presentation of use cases: eHealth, smart Manufacturing, and smart Agriculture
• 11:40 – 12:00 CET Wrap-up & end of the workshop

SPEAKERS

Florian Mohr | Fujitsu – Use Case Adaptation

Isabelle Ehresmann | Fujitsu – Use Case Adaptation

Carsten Harms | DFKI – Smart Manufacturing Pilot

Maciej Kolek | DFKI – Smart Manufacturing Pilot

Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis | iSPRINT – eHealth Pilot

Théophile Lohier | Cybeletech – Smart Agriculture Pilot

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In the 5th International Workshop on IoT Applications and Industry 5.0 of the IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2023 Conference in Pafos, Cyprus, the new PHYSICS publication entitled “Enhancing Smart Agriculture Scenarios with Low-code, Pattern-oriented Functionalities for Cloud/Edge Collaboration” was presented.

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The PHYSICS project, held its 8th General Assembly meeting on November 8th–9th, 2023, in Florence, Italy. Hosted by GFT, the meeting provided an opportunity for partners to present updates on task progress and deliverables, as well as discuss upcoming project results. 

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Aiming to demonstrate the PHYSICS Design Environment, the PHYSICS project organized a tutorial in the frame of the IEEE International Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering of 2023 (CISOSE 2023) held Athens, Greece between July 17-20. The tutorial was led by Dr. George Kousiouris, Assistant Professor at the Harokopeio University of Athens. Entitled “ENRICHING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS FOR FUNCTION AS A SERVICE FRAMEWORKS”,  the tutorial shed light on a plethora of valuable aspects of the project’s design environment. It introduces the bases of Function as a Service, the challenges of application development in the FaaS model, the limitations of FaaS platforms, and the strategic goals of the H2020 PHYSICS project. The event was attended by 40 participants, who have been engaged in discussions on the value-added of the PHYSICS project outputs.

Click here and watch the tutorial presentation entitled “ENRICHING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS FOR FUNCTION AS A SERVICE FRAMEWORKS.”

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The PHYSICS project’s 7th General Assembly meeting was held on July 4th–5th, 2023, in Pafos, Cyprus. The meeting was hosted by Innov-Acts LTD. 

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The talk will focus on the project’s design and development environment that aims to ease application evolution to the new FaaS model. It uses the Node-RED open-source tool as the primary function and workflow runtime. The goal of the environment is to enable a more user-friendly and abstract function and workflow creation process for complex FaaS applications.

To this end, it provides an extendable, pattern-enriched palette of ready-made, reusable functionalities such as workload parallelization, data collection at the edge, and function orchestration creation among others. The environment embeds seamless DevOps processes for generating the deployable artefacts of the FaaS platform (Openwhisk). Annotation mechanisms are also available for the developer to dictate diverse execution options towards the deployment stacks, including sizing and locality considerations, as well as abilities for dynamic FaaS applications to continuously leverage the edge-cloud continuum.

SPEAKERS

Yiannis Georgiou, RYAX

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The third PHYSICS hackathon will introduce you to the FaaS model and to building Kubernetes operators. You will implement a K8s Operator, using the operatorsdk framework, to provide the functionality of the Knative CLI. This will allow you to create easier build and deploy functions with Knative just by creating Kubernetes (CR) objects, and will help you learn the internals about how K8s Operators work in a real-life example.

Serverless and Function as a Service (FaaS) are getting more and more attention from customers and developers as a way to develop, run and manage applications functionality without the burden of infrastructure related knowledge. All big cloud providers offer them already, e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions or Microsoft Azure Functions. One of the most relevant upstream projects for serverless is Knative, which recently added support for functions (create, build, and deploy) on top of K8s clusters.

SPEAKERS

Luis Tomas Bolivar
Red Hat

Jose Castillo Lema
Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

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The session began with an introduction and purpose overview by Giulia Barbagelata (GFT), followed by a presentation of the HandBook activities by Lara Lopez (ATOS). Luis Tomas Bolivar (RH) then provided an update on the latest activities related to open access. Next, Elina Papadopoulou (BYTE) led an innovation session. Following that, Giulia Barbagelata (GFT) conducted an exploitation seminar from 11.00-12.00. The session concluded with a question and answer session, along with discussions on conclusions and next steps towards the general assembly. It was important that at least one representative from each partner attended the session.

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The second Hackathon of the PHYSICS project is scheduled to take place at the Harokopio University of Athens, with the primary objective of actively involving participants in using and extending parts of the PHYSICS solution, primarily from a design environmental point of view and according to the usage of PHYSICS patterns.
The overarching aim is to employ, amalgamate, and enhance these patterns through the utilization of Node-RED flows.

You can also find the helper material of the hackathon.

Prizes

We are delighted to announce that the top four submissions will be awarded the following prizes:

– 1st Best submission: 150€ Amazon gift card
– 2nd Best submission: 140€ Amazon gift card
– 3rd Best submission: 75€ Amazon gift card
– 4th Best submission: 70€ Amazon gift card

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PHYSICS H2020 Project results were presented by the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) at the HANNOVER MESSE 2023. The presentation provided the audience with an overview of the PHYSICS project and its results and then emphasized the smart manufacturing use case.

It is estimated that 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.

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.

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