PHYSICS H2020

PHYSICS empowers European CSPs(Cloud Service Providers)exploit the most modern, scalable&cost-effective cloud model(FaaS), operated across multiple service &hardware types, provider locations, edge&multi-cloud resources.To this end, it applies a unified continuum approach, including functional & operational management across sites & service stacks, performance through the relativity of space (location of execution) & time(of execution),enhanced by semantics of application components&services. PHYSICS applies this scope via a vertical solution consisting of the following assets: 1)Cloud Design Environment, enabling design of visual workflows of applications, exploiting provided generalized Cloud design patterns functionalities with existing application components, easily integrated and used with FaaS platforms,including incorporation of application-level control logic & adaptation to the FaaS model. 2)Optimized Platform Level FaaS Service, enabling CSPs to acquire a cross-site FaaS platform middleware including multi-constraint deployment optimization, runtime orchestration & reconfiguration capabilities,optimizing FaaS application placement&execution as well as state handling within functions,while cooperating with provider-local policies 3)Backend Optimization Toolkit, enabling CSPs to enhance their baseline resources performance, tackling issues such as cold-start problems, multitenant interference & data locality through automated and multi-purpose techniques. 4) PHYSICS will produce an Artefacts Marketplace (RAMP), in which internal&external entities (developers, researchers etc) will be able to contribute fine-grained reusable artifacts (functions, flows, controllers etc).PHYSICS will contribute to open source tools and initiatives/policies (Gaia-X, Green Deal, EOSC, Eur. Strategy for Data), while validating the outcomes in 3 real-world applications (eHealth, Agriculture and Manufacturing), making a business, societal and environtal impact on EU citizen life