Time-Critical Edge Compute
Project Technical Lead: Shane Dewing. Elected 1/17/19.
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Committer | Committer Company | Committer Contact Info | Committer Bio | Committer Picture | Self Nominate for PTL (Y/N) |
Shane Dewing | Intel | At Intel Corp, Shane works in the Industrial Solutions Division of the Internet of Things Group, where he leads software and open source strategy. Shane is a veteran software developer and technologist, and was on the technical leadership team of the AllSeen Alliance and the AllJoyn open source project (which Shane helped launch in 2013). Shane also works in IOT and Industrial Standards, including the Open Process Automation Forum, the OPC Foundation, and the Open Connectivity Foundation, where Shane chaired the Industrial TG 2015-2017. |  | Y | |
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Khemendra Kumar | Huawei |
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Keith Steele | IOTech Systems | keith@iotechsys.com | Keith is the CEO of IOTech. He is an EdgeX Foundry Board Member and the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee at EdgeX Foundry |
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Steve Osselton | IOTech Systems | steve@iotechsys.com | Steve Osselton is CTO at IOTech. Steve is Chair of the Device and Device SDK Working Group at EdgeX Foundry |
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Kevin Midkiff | Intel | kevin.midkiff@intel.com | Kevin is a lead architect in the Industrial Solutions Division at Intel |
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Jerry Yu | Intel | Jerry works in the System Software Products group at Intel |
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Sanrio Alvares | Intel | Sanrio works in the System Software Products group at Intel |
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Kailas Maneparambil | Intel | Kailasnath.s.maneparambil@intel.com | Kailas is a system architect in the Industrial Solutions Division |
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Taimoor Imtiaz | Intel | Taimoor is a Systems Engineer at Intel's Industrial Solutions Division. |
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Tiejun Chen | VMware | tiejunc@vmware.com | Technical leader and staff II engineer |
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Time-Critical Edge Compute git repo: https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/#/admin/projects/tc
Community Call Notes: https://etherpad.akraino.org/p/tc
Akraino New Use Case Template:
Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | Time Critical Edge Compute | Functionally safe capable for Industrial implementations, and enabled for Real-Time |
Industry Sector | Industrial Edge with applicability to applications where time-sensitive compute and/or functional safety are required |
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Business driver | Industrial Edge is shifting dramatically with manufacturers, oil and gas, energy and other major industries transitioning to software defined infrastructure just as the telecommunications sector has been undergoing a similar transformation. Akraino has the opportunity to play a critical role in hosting scalable, tuned software defined infrastructure for Industrial potentially ushering in this transformation and coalescing the ecosystem. |
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Business use cases | Use cases in Manufacturing, Smart Buildings, general IIOT.
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Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | Example: Dell 3000 - ~$800 list Example: Dell 5000 - ~$1300 list Example: HPE EL300 - ~$2500 list |
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Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | Leverage cloud-native and other IT infrastructure to enable end-users to deploy time-critical and functionally safe applications at the industrial edge on general purpose compute HW.
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Security need | Functional Safety (FuSa) core OS certification. Security for Industrial is a key vector, which is why this stack is in essence functionally safe - by using open source leadership software such as Zephyr and ACRN - projects designed to meet both functional safety and real time requirements for security at the core of the stack. By leveraging Kata Containers, all container workloads can leverage VT for containerized workload isolation. Trusted Execution Environment compatible. |
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Regulations | IEC 61508 - Safety Integrity Level |
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Other restrictions | For industrial deployments:-
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Additional details | Differentiation: Ruggedized implementation. Supports functional safety workloads. | Potential to attract new members to Akraino project ○ Industrial ODM’s e.g. Advantech, Adlink ○ Industrial OEM’s/ISV’s e.g. TTTech, Nebbiolo, IOTech ○ Industrial end-users e.g. ExxonMobil |
Akraino Species Blueprint Template:
Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New |
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Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | TBD |
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Use Case | Use cases in Manufacturing, Smart Buildings, general IIOT.
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Blueprint proposed Name | Time-Critical Edge Compute |
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Initial POD Cost (capex) | Example: Dell 3000 - ~$800 list Example: Dell 5000 - ~$1300 list Example: HPE EL300 - ~$2500 list |
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Scale & Type | Intel Atom/Core; ARM -- Ruggedized hardware, low power footprint, real time, safety critical implementations. |
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Applications | Can span from functionally safe applications, to real time and time-sensitive applications, Android apps and containerized edge workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes. Validated applications will include OpenVINO for visual inference workloads, TensorFlow via Kubeflow for Machine learning workloads, Closed loop control, Software Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and EdgeX Foundry |
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Infrastructure orchestration | Kubernetes orchestrated Docker and Kata container formats |
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SDN | As needed by use case, can support OVS-DPDK |
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Workload Type | VM and Containers in a Type1 Hypervisor, ACRN - https://projectacrn.org/ Safety/Host OS - Zephyr - https://www.zephyrproject.org/ For Industrial, Windows support is critical, and therefore Windows will also be validated on ACRN as part of this blueprint. |
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Additional Details | See deck and demo link |
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Presentation:
Video Demo of this stack
Embedded below (Open the URL to be able to view in fullscreen https://youtu.be/1qkRJlulUSY)