ENACT

Project name and Acronym

ENACT – Adaptive Scheduling and Deployments of Data Intensive Workloads on Energy Efficient Edge to Cloud Continuum

Project Code

101135423

Call

HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-04

Financing Program

Horizon Europe

Promotor/ Coordinator

Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis

Consortia Partners

Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis | Universitat Politecnica de Valencia | Information Catalyst SL | Eclipse Foundation Europe GMBH | MOG Technologies SA | Unparallel Innovation LDA | DunavNET Ltd | Digital Systems 4.0 | Four Dot Infinity Information and Telecommunications Solutions | Asociacion De Empresas Tecnologicas Innovalia | Siemens SRL | Erevnitiko Panepistimiako Institouto Systimaton Epikoinonion Kai Ypolgiston-emp | Panepistimio Dytikis Makedonias | Arctur Racunalniski Inzeniring Doo | Fujitsu Technology Solutions Spzoo | Sociedad De Proyectos para la Transformación Digital, S.A.U.

Duration

36 months

Total Eligible Costs (€)

223 750.00

EU Grant Amount (€)

223 750.00

Main objective

To build a computing continuum with cognitive Web3 capabilities that can effectively manage the explosion of locally generated content for next generation hyper-distributed services, while respecting European values and the regulatory frameworks set by the European Data Act and complementary legislation. The outcomes of these research and development activities will be delivered as open-source solutions, with the goal of allowing European businesses to enhance their competencies and upgrade their IT services with latest innovations.

Objectives

Objective 1: Provide mechanisms to optimise the execution of distributed applications (across Edge to Cloud) and proactively balance, and optimise the compute swarm according to needs and opportunities in the CCC.
Objective 2: Provide mechanisms for smartly deploy and execute distributed applications proactively based on their context, available resources, supporting the autonomous reconfiguration of resources, availability, and devices churn adjustment.
Objective 3: Support decentralised and proactive coordination of hyper-distributed applications strengthening transparency, openness, autonomy and resource optimisation in novel business collaborative interactions.
Objective 4: Provide a toolbox to facilitate to developers the development and integration of new and existing hyper-distributed intelligent applications capable of learning from other nodes of the compute continuum.
Objective 5: Setup the core mechanisms to enable and boost future ENACT continuum’s adoption by multidomain and different size companies.
Objective 6: Validation of ENACT tools and mechanisms in real-world scenarios that require seamless management of distributed resource, as well as efficient processing of data in hyper distributed applications.
Objective 7: Establish proven knowledge exchange and community building scenarios for fostering a competitive European software industry.

Work Packages

Work Package 1: Project Management and Coordination.
Work Package 2: Requirements and Specifications for Cognitive Compute Continuum.
Work Package 3: ENACT Use-Case Implementations and Evaluation.
Work Package 4: Cloud-Edge Abstraction, Distributed Storage, Interoperability and Modelling.
Work Package 5: Edge-Cloud Orchestration, Scheduling and Adaptation.
Work Package 6: Application Programming Model and Support for Hyper-Distributed Applications.
Work Package 7: Continuous Research, Improvements, Integrations and Deployments.
Work Package 8: Impact Assessment, Dissemination, Exploitation and Synergies.

Architecture