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Research project COGNIT is a major new European initiative that aims to integrate AI technology into Serverless Cloud-Edge management systems. The consortium includes several prominent European open source companies, high-impact research organisations, and innovative edge application providers.
Ensuring the high demands of Serverless cloud services requires addressing several challenges. These often relate to resource constraints, infrastructure heterogeneity, and the need to fulfill criteria such as performance, resilience, security, data sovereignty, and energy efficiency.
Use of the serverless paradigm in cloud application development is growing rapidly, primarily driven by its promise to free developers from the responsibility of provisioning, operating, and scaling the underlying infrastructure. However, modern cloud-edge infrastructures are characterized by large numbers of disparate providers, constrained resource devices, platform heterogeneity, infrastructural dynamicity, and the need to orchestrate geographically distributed nodes and devices over public networks. This presents significant management complexity that must be addressed if serverless technologies are to be used in production systems.
The COGNIT project is a major new European initiative that aims to integrate AI technology into cloud-edge management systems to create a Cognitive Cloud reference framework and associated tools for serverless computing at the edge.
The project uses four motivating real-world use cases for validation, drawing from domains within Smart Cities, Agriculture and Environment, Energy, and Cybersecurity.
This project is a part of the SovereignEdge.EU initiative – a unique consortium of several prominent European open-source companies, high-impact research organisations, and innovative edge application providers.
We expect this joint innovation effort to be a truly transformative force in the EU's emerging edge ecosystem, well beyond the formal end of the project, providing valuable resources, cutting-edge knowledge and powerful European open-source technologies to those start-ups, SMEs and industry leaders who want to look beyond centralised platforms and hyperscalers.
Read more about The European Union’s Digital Decade policy programme here.
