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The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for The Compute Continuum

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Authors:

Matthijs Jansen , Auday Al-Dulaimy, Alessandro Papadopoulos, Animesh Trivedi , Alexandru Iosup

Research group:

Complex Real-Time Embedded Systems

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing

DOI:

10.1109/CCGrid57682.2023.00051

Abstract

As the next generation of diverse workloads like autonomous driving and augmented/virtual reality evolves, computation is shifting from cloud-based services to the edge, leading to the emergence of a cloud-edge compute continuum. This continuum promises a wide spectrum of deployment opportunities for workloads that can leverage the strengths of cloud (scalable infrastructure, high reliability) and edge (energy efficient, low latencies). Despite its promises, the continuum has only been studied in silos of various computing models, thus lacking strong end-to-end theoretical and engineering foundations for computing and resource management across the continuum. Consequently, developers resort to ad hoc approaches to reason about performance and resource utilization of workloads in the continuum. In this work, we conduct a first-of-its-kind systematic study of various computing models, identify salient properties, and make a case to unify them under a compute continuum reference architecture. This architecture provides an end-to-end analysis framework for developers to reason about resource management, workload distribution, and performance analysis. We demonstrate the utility of the reference architecture by analyzing two popular continuum workloads, deep learning and industrial IoT. We have developed an accompanying deployment and benchmarking framework and first-order analytical model for quantitative reasoning of continuum workloads. The framework is open-sourced and available at https://github.com/atlarge-research/continuum.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Jansen6686,
author = {Matthijs Jansen and Auday Al-Dulaimy and Alessandro Papadopoulos and Animesh Trivedi and Alexandru Iosup},
title = {The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for The Compute Continuum},
pages = {469--484},
month = {May},
year = {2023},
booktitle = {23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/6686-}
}