Creating a sustainable and open ecosystem for high performance edge-cloud computing, developed in the EU
Addressed Challenges
Software
CH1: Consistency in the cloud computing services experience.
CH2: Usability and UIX (User Interface and Experience) hiding the complexities and ontologies of different CSP’s and bridging the lack of in-house skills and experience.
CH3: Open Access to resources such as software tools and application environments. Note: The recent Data Act not fully but somewhat mitigates lacking interoperability- and costs of data and application movement between CSP’s.
CH4: Business models that offers Powerful Edge as a Service (PEaaS) that allows end users to shift from capital expenditures to operational expenditures.
Hardware
CH5: Optimized designs for edge e.g. high density & low footprint, low-to-no maintenance.
CH6: Offering industry standards and modularity that supports personalized hardware heterogeneity, recyclable hardware components.
CH7: Offer ‘data center as the new unit of compute’ increase performance, utilization levels, energy efficiency, lower the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) based on European technology fostering digital sovereignty.
Objectives
O1: Develop a future proof, open computing architecture ranging from edge to multi- & hybrid-cloud
O2: Next-Gen Infrastructure Provisioning, Deployment and Optimization Framework
O3: Develop and standardize edge-cloud hardware components for eHPS and EMDCs
O4: Ensure sustainability, maturation & uptake of the EU open edge cloud computing infrastructures
O5: Test and demonstrate CAPE’s approach as an open computing architecture for ‘edge first’ and edge-to-cloud infrastructure
O6: Open firmware and management modules for heterogeneous processor architectures
