From June 11 to June 14, 2024, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) facilities hosted the 28th edition of the Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2024).
The conference program included, among other activities, a keynote talk as well as invited talks, with a panel of diverse speakers, among whom was Eduardo Quiñones, principal investigator of ASCENDER, who presented the project to the audience.
Thus, on Wednesday, June 12, Quiñones offered the talk “The Compute Continuum: An Efficient Use of Edge-to-Cloud Computing Resources”, where the need for gluing Edge, Cloud and HPC technologies into a unified compute continuum solution to manage and analyse the complete lifecycle of data was highlighted.
Towards this direction, the BSC researcher presentation identified the three main key challenges that are needed to be addressed: optimize current data infrastructures and AI & Big-data frameworks to jointly address data processes and analytics methods; develop orchestration techniques to select the most appropriate set of computing resources; and increase the interoperability between the most common programming practices and execution models used across the compute continuum, i.e., HPC, edge and cloud computing resources, to effectively address the diverse characteristics of data.
Finally, we must highlight that the conference was a leading international forum for providers, practitioners, and researchers in reliable software technologies. The presentations illustrated current work in the theory and practice of the design, development, and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains.
ASCENDER project is part of the UNICO I+D Cloud program that has Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service and the EU-Next Generation EU as financing entities, within the framework of the PRTR and the MRR.