Horizon Europe MYRTUS - Multi-layer 360° dYnamic orchestration and interopeRable design environmenT for compute-continUum Systems.
Period of reference: 01 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026
Funder: European Union
Grant agreement ID: 101135183
Project Description:
MYRTUS (Multi-layer 360° dYnamic orchestration and interopeRable design environmenT for compute-continUum Systems) is an Horizon Europe Project, coordinated by Abinsula that brings together a consortium of 14 partners from 8 European countries. The MYRTUS project aims at unlocking the new living dimension of CPS, embracing the principles of the EU CloudEdgeIOT Initiative, integrating edge, fog and cloud computing platforms. This integration requires the reinvention of programming languages and tools to orchestrate collaborative distributed and decentralised components. Additionally, components must be augmented with interface contracts covering both functional and non-functional properties. MYRTUS solutions play a crucial role in enabling sustainable computing and trustworthiness in CPS.
MYRTUS contributes to create new knowledge in the computing continuum domain, with methodologies and tools for node execution and processing portability over edge-fog-cloud, including dynamic and seamless orchestration. The goal is to become a reference in the computing continuum, offering solutions that overcome the problem related to vendor/platform lock-in, therefore promoting and facilitating the adoption of MYRTUS technologies among startups and SMEs, reducing their development time and cost.
MYRTUS embraces the sustainable and responsible computing paradigm, promoting obsolescence avoidance (supported by MYRTUS principle of openness, interoperability, and portability) and resource saving and energy efficiency (supported by HW specialisation and optimization techniques).
Objective:
The MYRTUS Horizon Europe Project embraces the principles of the EUCloudEdgeIOT Initiative and integrates edge, fog and cloud computing platforms, leveraging a cognitive engine based on swarm intelligence and federated learning to orchestrate collaborative distributed and decentralised components. Components are augmented with interface contracts covering both functional and non-functional properties.
A video has been prepared for the "Launch Event: showcasing the future of innovation in AI, Data, and Robotics" co-organized by the European Commission, Adra-e and AIonDemand. The event is open to all actors involved in AI, Data and Robotics communities including research organisations, associations linked to ADR technologies, developers and domain experts, Governments & Policy Makers, citizens and civil society, please see it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aze4WjZBF9Q&t=1s
SOFTEAM's Role:
Softeam leads Expmoitation and Comunication in the project and theTOSCA Modeling Environment in the MYRTUS DPE:
MYRTUS Design and Programming Environment (DPE)
It is very well known that centralized solutions struggle to meet scalable and low latency scenarios, as well as privacy matters. Therefore, MYRTUS defines a reference infrastructure where a diversity of fog-level and edge-level devices converge with the cloud to form a computing continuum capable of addressing the needs of complex and dynamic systems. Different partners contribute with their technologies. At the edge, we will leverage advanced embedded systems including heterogeneous multi-processor systems on chip and RISC-V, which will cooperate with the resources at the fog layer that might act simply as smart bridges or have the complexity of micro-data centres. On top of them, cloud resources will be accessed for storage and non-strictly real-time computing tasks.
To facilitate the development of such systems, MYRTUS provides a reference design and programming environment (DPE) for continuum computing systems, featuring interoperable support for cross-layer modelling, threat analysis, design space exploration, application modelling, components synthesis, and code generation. To favour solutions uptake and overcome interoperability issues, we will leverage standard and widely acknowledged technologies as OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) to enhance the portability and operational management of distributed applications and services across the continuum and for their entire lifecycle and the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) that is used to build reusable and extensible compiler infrastructures to share information among the tools at the node level.
Web Site: myrtus-project.eu
Start Date: 1st January 2024
End Date: 31st December 2026
The team:
