Dissemination Activities
CAPE Update #3: Software Architecture
CAPE’s Software Architecture: Towards an Automated, Open, and Intelligent Edge-Cloud Continuum Written by: Milad Afzal (HIRO) Overview The Edge-Cloud landscape in Europe is transforming. Applications across energy, mobility, satellite data processing, industry, and critical infrastructure increasingly require low latency, strong privacy and data sovereignty, demanding intelligent decision-making at the edge. CAPE is meeting this shift by designing a software architecture that unifies cloud-native automation with the performance and resilience of modern edge computing systems. This architecture integrates distributed orchestration, cognitive
CAPE Update #2: Architectural Blueprint
July 2025: The CAPE team finished CAPE’s Architectural Blueprint and submitted it in the first public deliverable. The Architectural Blueprint outlines a cohesive, open-source architecture that enables European innovators to deploy, orchestrate, and manage demanding applications seamlessly, from the cloud to the edge. It couples a modular software stack — centered on workflow-based design, Kubernetes-native orchestration, and AI-assisted Infrastructure-from-Code tools. Composable Infrastructure with PCIe-pooled server resources in the Edge-Cloud continuum CAPE’s On-Premises Edge Servers deliver a composable server infrastructure, where
CAPE Update #1: CAPE at a Glance
CAPE – Superpowering the edge! Bielefeld, June 2025 The CAPE “European Open Compute Architecture for Powerful Edge” project, funded by the European Commission, is an ambitious initiative to strengthen Europe’s sovereignty over challenging edge computing and AI applications. CAPE aims to harmonize the edge-cloud continuum by defining standards for European data centers. Based on these standards and open blueprints, fully composable server platforms are developed, accompanied by an open-source software stack. The integration of hardware and software innovations will boost
Paper @ MSR2025
TerraDS: A Dataset for Terraform HCL Programs David Spielmann presented his paper on Infrastructure from Code, one of the key technologies on which CAPE is based on: TerraDS, the first large-scale dataset of Terraform (by HashiCorp) configurations is written in HCL, sourced exclusively from open-source repositories with permissive licenses to support reproducible research and tool development. Terraform is among the most established and widely adopted Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools in use today. Yet, despite its popularity, there has been
HiPEAC25
We are excited to announce our first dissemination event HiPEAC conference on “Edge-cloud Cognitive Architectures and Resources Orchestration” Fred Buining (HIRO-MicroDataCenters BV, moderator) presented the European vision on powerful edge-cloud computing and the innovation technology pathway leading to increased autonomy and digital sovereignty. Jens Hagemeyer (Universität Bielefeld University) discussed the benefits of using COM-HPC -based computing nodes for edge computing and the future of heterogeneous computing with the cache-coherent CXL interconnect. At HiPEACs EU poster session, Jens and Fred also
| Date | Type | Location | Description | |
| 11.06.2025 - 13.06.2025 | General Assembly | Bielefeld University, Germany | Finalizing the Architectural Blueprint and HW / SW roadmap planning | |
| 29.4.2025 | Paper Presentation | Ottawa, Kanada | TerraDS: A Dataset for Terraform HCL Programs @ 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories | |
| 22.01.2025 | Talks & Poster Presentations | HiPEAC 25, Barcelona, Spain | - Fred Buining; Edge-cloud Cognitive Architectures and Resource Orchestration - Jens Hagemeyer: Form Factor Standards for Powerful Edge Cloud Infrastructures & CXL for Composable Edge Data Center Infrastructure - CAPE Project Overview poster | |
| 12.12.2024 - 13.12.2024 | General Assembly | PCBDesign, Budapest, Hungary | Kickoff |