Press Release
The Kick-Off Meeting of the H2020 PHYSICS Project took place virtually, in January 18th and January 19th 2021. For almost two full days, the consortium partners had the opportunity to identify some of the main research topics and innovation areas of the project. The meeting included mini technical-workshops, which enabled the partners to discuss in depth some of the core scientific areas of the project, including the semantic descriptions for FaaS services, the programming environments for FaaS developers and the cloud infrastructure for the optimal distribution and allocation of cloud functions. Emphasis was put on the presentation of the industrial use cases of the project and the ways they can benefit from the FaaS developments of the project.
H2020 PHYSICS is an EC funded project (GA Number: 101017047), which aims at delivering a complete vertical solution for Function-as-a-Service deployment, which will enable:
H2020 PHYSICS is an EC funded project (GA Number: 101017047), which aims at delivering a complete vertical solution for Function-as-a-Service deployment, which will enable:
• Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to offer advanced cloud application design environments to their main end customers (Application Developers) to create workflows of their applications, exploiting generalized Cloud design patterns for functionality enhancement with existing application components, easily designed and reused through intuitive visual flow programming tools (CSP Cloud Design Environment)
• Platform-level functionalities to be easily incorporated by providers in order to translate the created application workflows to deployable functional sequences, based on the Function as a Service model, optimizing their placement across the Cloud computing domain and exploiting the computational space-time continuum as well as advanced semantics for the definition of a global service graph (CSP Optimized Platform Level FaaS Services Toolkit).
• Provider-local resource management mechanisms that will enable providers to offer competitive and optimized services with extended interfaces offering local fine-grained control of elasticity rules and policies, while applying a holistic set of provider-local strategies based on a wide set of controlling techniques and tackling key aspects of multitenancy (CSP Backend Optimization Toolkit).
The PHYSICS Consortium consists of the following organizations:
• GFT Italia S.r.l., Italy
• Atos IT Solutions And Services Iberia, Spain
• Hewlett Packard Italiana S.r.l., Italy
• Red Hat Israel Ltd., Israel
• Fujitsu TDS GmbH., Germany
• Byte Computer, Greece
• Ryax Technologies, France
• InQBit, Romania
• Innovation Sprint Sprl, Belgium
• Innov-Acts Ltd, Cyprus
• CybeleTech, France
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Harokopio University, Greece
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany