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. The coordinator and leaders of the work packages (WP) led discussions on any outstanding issues, fostering active participation and constructive feedback.

The meeting was conducted using a hybrid format, accommodating both in-person and remote attendees. Among the meeting’s key objectives were the status of PHYSICS’ 2nd Iteration Pilot Implementation, the finalization of the Final Review demo, and the definition of the Final Review agenda and logistics.

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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. During the GA the consortium partners presented their updates on the progress of different tasks and deliverables and discussed current and upcoming project results. The coordinator and leaders of the work packages (WP) facilitated discussions on any remaining issues, promoting active participation and constructive feedback. To accommodate both in-person and remote attendees, the meeting was conducted using a hybrid format.

We eagerly anticipate the upcoming meeting!

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The 6th General Assembly meeting of the PHYSICS project took place on March 6th – 7th, 2023, in Munich, Germany, and was hosted by Fujitsu TDS GmbH.
The event provided a platform for the consortium partners to report on the status of various tasks and deliverables. The coordinator and work package (WP) leaders led discussions on any outstanding matters, fostering engagement and collaboration. The meeting was conducted using a hybrid format, blending in-person and virtual participation.

Looking forward to the next one!

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The 5th PHYSICS project General Assembly meeting was held on November 15th – 16th, 2022 in Madrid, Spain and was hosted by ATOS.
Partners had the opportunity to update the consortium on the progress of different tasks and deliverables, and further discuss any open issues. Led by the coordinator and WP leaders, the consortium also discussed feedback generated by the project’s review and future plans regarding the third and final year of the PHYSICS project. The meeting was organized in a hybrid mode.

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The 4th PHYSICS project General Assembly meeting was held on July 4th – 6th, 2022. The meeting was hosted by RYAX in Athens, Greece. During the meeting, the partners analyzed the project’s growth and had the opportunity to participate in meeting in person or join virtually in discussions about the next goals of the project. All the work packages of the project were discussed in-depth to monitor the project’s progress and agree on future plans.

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The CCGrid symposium series serves as a major international forum for presenting and sharing recent research accomplishments and technological developments in the field of Cluster, Cloud and Internet computing. CCGrid 2022 is the 22nd edition of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Cluster, Cloud and Internet computing, took place from 16-19 May 2022.  EU Day, organised by HUB4CLOUD, explores the major developments in the European cloud computing ecosystem, in particular open source approaches. The presentation was held by Prof. George Kousiouris, Harokopio University of Athens.

Proposal

Modern cloud computing advances have been pressing application modernization in the last 15 years, stressing the need for application redesign towards the use of more distributed and ephemeral resources. From the initial IaaS and PaaS approaches to microservices and now to the serverless model (and especially the Function as a Service approach), new challenges arise constantly for application developers. This tutorial presents a design and
development environment coming from the H2020 PHYSICS project, that aims to ease application evolution and migration to the new FaaS model, based on the widely used Node-RED open source tool. The goal of the environment is to enable a more user friendly and abstract function and workflow creation for complex FaaS applications. To this end, it bypasses workflow description and function reuse limitations of the current FaaS platforms, by providing an extendable, pattern-enriched palette of ready-made, reusable functionality that can be combined in arbitrary ways. The environment embeds seamless DevOps processes for generating the deployable artefacts (i.e. functions and images) of the FaaS platform (Openwhisk). Annotation mechanisms are also available for the developer to dictate diverse execution options or management guidelines towards the deployment and operation stacks. Indicative scenarios of usage will be demonstrated, including creating, registering and executing functions and flows based on the Node-RED runtime, parallelizing a workload, collecting data at the edge and creating function orchestrators to accompany the application. The target FaaS platform in this case is another popular open source solution, Openwhisk.

Overall process: PHYSICS Design Environment

❖Local Control UI environment
❖Embeds Node-RED container with PHYSICS provided nodes and subflows
❖Flow management and Build process linked to the cloud based backend
❖Creates the deployable artefacts (docker function images)
❖Log collector from the various stages of the process
❖Registration of the final function in the target OW environment

Three ways of using Node-RED

Function editor and deployer to the OW case
❖OW execution- OW orchestration
❖Applies to sequences only
❖Function execution runtime
❖All functions embedded inside a NR container that is executed as a function (NR-NR)
❖Combination of inner NR functions execution and choreography of external available OW actions (OW-NR)
❖NR flow (executed as service or function)
❖Invokes any other type of action

ETL Data Collection Abstraction

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://fcrlab.unime.it/ccgrid22/

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The PHYSICS project General Assembly meeting was held on March 30th & 31st. The meeting was hosted by Red Hat in Israel. During the meeting the partners had the opportunity to participate at meeting in person or join virtually to discuss the overall progress of the project. The agenda included the project overview as well as a technical overview, including Work Packages related: to QoS and orchestration mechanisms and trust; smart contracts and decision support mechanisms; integration, pilots and evaluation. Discussions on planning the next steps of the project were also held.

The PHYSICS project coordinator, Fabrizio Di Peppo also presented the PHYSICS project to the Red Hat staff during lunchtime.

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