[edge-wg] Eclipse Edge Native WG call minutes — July 8, 2020

[Frédéric Desbiens <frederic.desbiens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone.

You will find the minutes from the July 8, 2020 call below. Minutes from prior meetings are also available in this document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XIv3-SYK-HadgScJ_H4tKvwRhGsig7uLg7n0Xzvwza0  

Meeting recording

https://eclipse.zoom.us/rec/share/3dNocpzU8ThJH7fLw1-BSoUkQpXkT6a81iNL__NcmU1dklQ06QNLH_zgprO0Ttv2

Password: 5r@N7i3^

Our next call will be held on July 22, 2020.

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1. Deploy and control AI apps on the Edge — Harald Mueller, Siemens

• “Seamless computing”: Components of the application can run in the cloud, at the edge or on a device. Each app component is deployed separately.

• Components

• Application model: Apps are modular

• Infrastructure model: nodes, links and network nodes

• Scheduler Maps a set of apps to a given infrastructure

• Kubernetes, partly defines app model, infra model. Is also a scheduler

• K8s has limitations: no network awareness, etc.

• How to overcome limitations?

• App model describes characteristics, requirements and constraints of modular applications

• Apps are modular, with workloads that exchange data via interfaces

• Infrastructure model describes capabilities of a given infrastructure. 

• Given the app and infra models, you can mathematically describe the problem to optimize the scheduling

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2. Relative positioning with LF Edge - especially Horizon & Eve 

• LF Edge Akraino ELIOT (slides)

• ELIOT: Edge Lightweight and IoT

• Akraino Blueprint to provide Industrial IoT solutions

• 2 demos already: video surveillance and smart data center ambient control

• System has a manager (controller) and nodes

• Software stack

• Supports x86, ARM

• Ubuntu, centOS, Tailored OS

• Lightweight container orchestration: KubeEdge, k3s (next release)

• Monitoring: cAdvisor, Prometheus, Grafanna

• Web UI and CLI
  
  

• Open Horizon (Slides)

• Eurotech working on projects involving “Edge supercomputers” with IBM

• IBM Edge Application Manager / Open Horizon → Eclipse Kura / Eurotech ESF

• Need a scaling mechanism to deploy apps at the Edge.

• Open Horizon: manage and deploys workloads

• Can deploy Kura / ESF on edge nodes in parallel with other workloads on Edge nodes

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Best Regards,

Frédéric Desbiens

Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing | Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Twitter: @BlueberryCoder

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