ACCORDION

Adaptive edge/cloud compute and network continuum over a heterogeneous sparse edge infrastructure to support nextgen applications

ACCORDION aims at the implementation of the Edge/Cloud continuum management framework. Within this framework, ACCORDION develops the tools to achieve an intelligent interplay between edge and cloud resources, primarily aiming at the former and using the latter in the last resort basis, as a ”capacitor”. To this end, ACCORDION establishes an opportunistic approach in bringing together edge resource/infrastructures(public clouds, on-premise infrastructures, telco resources, even end-devices) in pools defined in terms of latency, that can support NextGen application requirements.
To mitigate the expectation that these pools will be “sparse”, providing low availability guarantees, ACCORDION will intelligently orchestrate the compute & network continuum formed between edge and public clouds.
Deployment decisions will be taken also based on privacy, security, cost, time and resource type criteria. The slow adoption rate of novel technological concepts from the EU SMEs will be tackled through an application framework, that will leverage DevOps and SecOps to facilitate the transition to the ACCORDION system. With a strong emphasis on European edge computing efforts (MEC, OSM) and three highly anticipated NextGen applications.

Website: accordion-project.eu