Navigating the Dynamic Heterogeneous Computing Sphere: the Role of EdgeHarbor as a Multi-Edge Orchestrator

EasyChair Preprint 15116

Abstract

The term ‘Dynamic Heterogeneous Computing Sphere’ is used to describe a computing paradigm that is heterogeneous, volatile and highly dynamic. This results from the integration of a large set of resources, which are dis-tributed across a continuum that includes both infrastructure (real and virtu-al) and data. These resources are distributed from the extreme IoT to the edge (far and near) and to the cloud. When the objective is to deploy and ex-ecute a set of innovative vertical applications that are heterogeneous in technology and in requirements. The envisioned scenario necessitates the capacity for both resources and services to be elastic, that is, to be capable of being continuously shaped and moulded to support the specific needs of those highly demanding applications, both in the allocation and runtime windows. Furthermore, software modules (those that compose vertical appli-cations) should be intelligently partitioned into virtual elements (i.e., con-tainers) to optimise their placement and consequent execution. This can be achieved by considering aspects such as performance and green aspects. The demand for ad hoc resource and service shaping is increasing in line with the current trends towards softwareisation of systems management. This has been further fuelled by the disaggregation concept and the development of new extremely demanding ultra-real-time services (X-AR, holo, metaverse, etc.). This paper introduces the architecture of the EdgeHarbor orchestrator as an open-source, multi-edge management system for a Dynamic Heteroge-neous Computing Sphere. This work has been almost entirely supported by the European Union’s HORIZON research and innovation programme under grant agreement ICOS (www.icos-project.eu), grant number 101070177

Keyphrases: Apache License, Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum, Computing Sphere, dynamic heterogeneous computing sphere, multi edge orchestrator, multi-cluster management, open source, resource management

@booklet{EasyChair:15116,
  author    = {Francesco D'Andria and Alex Volkov and Josep Martrat},
  title     = {Navigating the Dynamic Heterogeneous Computing Sphere: the Role of EdgeHarbor as a Multi-Edge Orchestrator},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 15116},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}