The Compute Continuum

The vision

For a more comprehensive exposition, consult the following white paper.

The key traits of the envisioned Compute Continuum are the following.

Interactions over Web-level protocols
Edge and Cloud as a seamless, continuous, infrastructure
Opportunistic and live migration of application components
In response to changes in the physical world

The construction of a runtime infrastructure for the Compute Continuum:

Construction of a node
- Supporting live migration for Wasm computations:
  Migrating compiled module [GitHub]
- Three deployment scenarios
  
  (1) Bare-metal, without an OS
  
  (2) On top of a RTOS
  
  (3) Leveraging a general-purpose OS
Construction of a cluster
- Building A two-level orchestration strategy
  Application-level orchestration of migrating computations [GitHub]
  
  In collaboration with Prof. Alessandro Papadopoulos @ MDU
- Enabling live migration in Oakestra
  New commands for Oakestra [GitHub]
  
  In collaboration with Giovanni Bartolomeo @ TUM
Benchmarking
- Benchmark selection or realization
- Experimental evaluation over the infrastructure

Several application scenarios might benefit from this runtime infrastructure.

High-Performance Computing
To leverage an increasingly vast pool of computing resources, both in Cloud and Edge, for High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications
Real-Time Systems
Live migration improves adaptability and reconfigurability in response to changes in the physical world
Energy Harvesting Systems
Migrating computations in the presence of low-energy phases, aiming for higher system utilization

E. Tinto, L. Marchiori, T. Vardanega, Live migration of compiled Wasm modules across the Compute Continuum,
Ada-Europe International Conference ’25,
E. Tinto, T. Vardanega, A runtime infrastructure for the Continuum of Computing,
HPDC ’24 PhD Symposium, [article] [presentation].

This project is supported by the University of Padova, Italy.

Edoardo Tinto,
Department of Mathematics, University of Padova,
edoardo.tinto@phd.unipd.it.