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Requirement List
by Wang, Shane 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Hi all, In today's meeting, we received a suggestion to get a requirement list and collect requirements on edge, after comparing and analyzing the existing features in OpenStack, StarlingX and other edge projects. Zhu Rong from ZTE already had some and even had patches to fix them, but they are not in the upstream yet. Do you think if it makes sense to initiate and create such a list for edge WG? Do you see any overlap with existing efforts? Thanks. -- Shane

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Open Infrastructure Summit and PTG Shanghai - edge recap
by Ildiko Vancsa 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hi, Hereby is a recap of the Open Infrastructure Summit that was held in Shanghai, November 4-6, with conference sessions including presentations and panel discussions, a lively Marketplace and the co-located Forum to provide space and time for users, operators and developers to talk about the software pieces the communities are working on. As usual the event started with keynotes[1] that were focusing on open infrastructure and updates about OpenStack and further OSF projects as well as news from the global and local communities. During the event the sessions were organized into dedicated tracks to cover relevant areas including a combined track for NFV, 5G, and edge computing. OSF Edge Computing Group contributors had a panel discussion to give an update on the latest activities of the group including a sync with representatives of the Chinese edge community. Similarly to former Summits we had the Forum[2] running in parallel to the conference with 40 minutes long sessions with users, operators and developers in the rooms to discuss feedback, new ideas and next steps. StarlingX and the OSF Edge Computing Group had a joint session[3] to talk about reference architectures and gather new use cases from the attendees. The session discussed use cases related to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and requirements to run workloads on bare metal at the edge and further items in the area of networking. The conference sessions were recorded and the slides and videos are being uploaded to the event website[4] as you read this article. We had a full day[5] dedicated to the edge working group to talk about recent activities, synchronize with OpenStack and OSF projects and work on the roadmap for the first half of 2020. The working group discussions were mainly focusing on testing activities that we have started earlier this year. The group is working on defining reference architectures[6] that we are turning into reference implementations to see if they fulfill edge requirements and find gaps and areas to improve. In recent activities we started to test the distributed control plane model with using StarlingX[7] and setup the centralized control plane model with TripleO. Due to limitations on the lab environment we have we hit a roadblock with the latter scenario which brought us to discuss alternatives both on the side of ways to deploy the test systems as well as alternatives for lab environments. The group decided to reach out to universities as well as look into offers on lab donations from earlier PTGs. The group has a test plan proposal[7] that we started to review at the PTG. Our main goal for testing is to evaluate the functionality of the services that we deploy in the lab environments based on information we gathered from collecting use cases from different industry segments. Evaluating the services as a complete platform is out of the scope of our work as the group is not working on an end-to-end solution that can be used out of the box but rather wants to make sure that the building blocks deliver what they promise. In that sense we will not test the steps of deployment and configuration neither the steps of upgrading the infrastructure at this stage. Based on the outreach to look for lab environments we also hope to be able to deploy edge environments at multiple sites which could give us the possibility to eventually test geographically distributed configurations. This is not a high priority task at this point, but the group had an agreement to keep this as a desirable goal. After the test environments we also briefly discussed possible workloads to test our edge environments with. We identified two areas to look at, these being vRAN and cloud gaming. Both of these use cases are already moving to deployment stage which means that we have a potential to find open source building blocks to use or partner up with organizations to do joint work in the area, one example to look at is O-RAN. The group is planning to record demos once we reached the stage of operational deployments with workloads running on top of them. We are also still dedicated to lower level testing such as Keystone federation testing in a Devstack environment. Another big chunk of the PTG activities of the group were cross-project discussions with two main objectives. As projects and services continuously evolve we need to periodically re-evaluate our reference architecture models to ensure they are still correct and realistic when it comes to the details. We identified items to fix for projects like Glance, Nova and Cinder. Beyond synchronizing with the projects we’ve already been working with we are also constantly looking into new projects to add to the models and activities as well. Candidates high on our list are Ironic and Cyborg as both managing bare metal resources and hardware acceleration technologies are getting more and more crucial for edge use cases. We had sessions with Cinder, Cyborg and Neutron and had one large joint session involving Ironic, TripleO, Airship and Manila. With Cinder we focused mainly on deployment options regarding the placement of the services and some functionality around availability zones (AZs). We touch based on features such as setting a default volume type per AZ as volume requests don’t contain AZ information. Another feature that is very useful for edge use cases is the instance locality filter which can ensure for single node edge sites that the deployment is using local disks on the node. Group members had a very fruitful discussion with the Cyborg team to kick off the collaboration between the project and the edge working group. As hardware acceleration is a hot topic for edge use cases it is very important that we have the possibility to experiment with that in our test environments as well beyond capturing this need on architecture diagrams. During the session we synced up on the state of both Cyborg as well as the work of the Edge Computing Group and started to explore some relevant use cases. Our current focus is on vRAN deployments, and mentioned the work that a team from Rakuten was presenting[8] at the Summit. We had a short sync with the Neutron team to check on items that are in progress. Our focus with that team was on enhancements in the ability of managing network segment ranges[9] in edge deployments. The task is currently approved and in progress with some cross-project work items in the plan such as collaboration with the Placement team. We will track progress during the Ussuri release cycle and include the functionality in our testing activities once it is implemented. Our last session was held with a large group where we had members from multiple project teams. Our main focus was concentrating around Ironic use cases mainly around the area of virtual media based provisioning as well as booting from a URL. For the deployment side in relation to TripleO we were discussing an option for single step configuration that would include full node settings for the hardware. It faces challenges around locality to ensure that the image has a local source or is cached somewhere close to the server that is getting deployed. To utilize Ironic for Airship we mentioned the Metal3[10] CRD work. The last item of the session was a short update from Manila to summarize the relevant service and ongoing work around active-active configurations. Based on the information the working group has gathered during the Open Infrastructure Summit and PTG we will work on both building and evolving test environments as well as to enhance our reference architecture models. The group is also planning to start actively discussing concepts such as containerization and extend the architecture models to be suitable for all types of workloads. You can also check out the StarlingX blog[11] for details about the StarlingX activities in Shanghai. For more details about the OSF Edge Computing Group check out the group's wiki page[12]. You can participate in the discussions by joining our mailing list[13] or joining the #edge-computing-group IRC channel on Freenode. The group will also participate in the next OSF event[14] in June, 2020. Stay tuned for updates! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ildikó [1] https://www.openstack.org/videos/summits/shanghai-2019/tracks/keynotes [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum [3] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-edge-wg-forum [4] https://www.openstack.org/videos/search?search=edge [5] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PVG-ECG-PTG [6] https://www.starlingx.io [7] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ecg-test-plan [8] https://www.openstack.org/summit/shanghai-2019/summit-schedule/events/24451… [9] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1832526 [10] https://metal3.io [11] https://www.starlingx.io/blog/starlingx-shanghai-recap.html [12] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group [13] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/edge-computing [14] https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2020

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Call for Paper: [Information] Special Issue--"Advances in Mobile Gaming and Games-based Leaning" （More than 15 scholars agreed to submit）
by Blink Yu 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Special Issue: Advances in Mobile Gaming and Games-based Leaning Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2020 Website and Planned Papers:https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MobileGaming… Guest Editor: Dr. Antonio Coelho Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal Dr. Carlos Vaz de Carvalho Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Polit?cnico do Porto, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal ======================= Dear Colleagues, We cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in a Special Issue on "Advances in Mobile Gaming and Games-based Leaning" to be published in an EI, ESCI and Scopus-indexed open access journal Information (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) The submission manuscript deadline is 31 January 2020. For more details, please visit the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/MobileGaming_Gamesb… You may share this invitation with your team members and colleagues; co-authors are most welcome. Please let me know within a month or as soon as possible if you and your colleagues are interested in submitting a manuscript for this special issue. If more time is needed, please feel free to tell us (information(a)mdpi.com) Your contribution would be most welcome. Information is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1000 currently applies to all accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/instructions) We hope this topic is of interest to you and look forward to collaborating with you in the near future. Kind regards, Blink Yu Section Managing Editor --- Dear Colleagues, Education is evolving to overcome new challenges related to the unique competencies of the professionals of the future and the requirements of a new generation that is immersed in the digital media world from birth. Digital Games is one of the media that have the potential to reach these two objectives. Game-based learning is the scientific area that focuses on the development of games that are designed over specific learning objectives. From thoroughly crafted educational games to the use of gamification, the new era of the school will be digital. However, we should not forget tangential learning with the use of entertainment games. Mobile games are also leveraging a large community of gamers that relies on the specifics of mobile technology, such as ubiquity and pervasiveness. The solutions can leverage informal learning, literacy, science communication, and citizenship, among a vast area of applications. The aim of this Special Issue is to disclose the new advances in game-based learning and mobile games that can enhance the effectiveness and outreach of learning objects. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Game-based learning; Serious games; Mobile games; Pervasive games; Learning models and practices with the use of games; New technologies for game-based learning: Virtual and augmented reality; New interaction devices, toys, and playthings; Simulations; 3D rendering technologies; Game engines and development tools; Location-based games; Artificial intelligence; Educational games analytics; Assessment and evaluation of educational games; User experience design; The psychology of educational games; Gender and age issues; Social and collaborative games; Security and confidentiality in educational games; Case studies in educational games; Game development for mobile devices. Dr. Antonio Coelho Dr. Carlos Vaz de Carvalho Guest Editors -- Mr. Blink Yu Managing Editor E-Mail: blink.yu(a)mdpi.com Skype: live:c91693ac8277e1f0 -- MDPI Wuhan Office No.6 Jingan Road, 430064 Wuhan, China MDPI Postfach, CH-4020 Basel, Switzerland http://www.mdpi.com -- Disclaimer: MDPI recognizes the importance of data privacy and protection. We treat personal data in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and with what the community expects of us. The information contained in this message is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify me and delete this message from your system. You may not copy this message in its entirety or in part, or disclose its contents to anyone.

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Weekly call is on :)
by Ildiko Vancsa 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hi, Just a friendly reminder that the weekly call is on. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/879678938 Further info: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Thanks, Ildikó

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Wiki page update
by Ildiko Vancsa 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hi, Our wiki page has grown organically since the creation of our group and got a little chaotic. I updated the page a little to make it less busy and extracted some of the content out to separate pages. You can check the result here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Ildikó

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The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) - New deadline!
by Flavia Delicato 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

===================================================================== The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) April 21-24, 2020, Sydney, Australia Website: https://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) is targeted to be a premier conference on cloud computing, which represents a paradigm shift for the use and delivery of information technology (IT) and has been revolutionizing the support of on-demand access, economies of scale, and dynamic sourcing options. IC2E provides a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences related to cloud computing. The conference brings together experts who work on different levels of the cloud stack—systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications. IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. IC2E-2020 invites submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully-developed results, and ongoing foundational and applied work related to all aspects of cloud engineering. The program committee will interpret “cloud engineering” very broadly—everything from engineering principles to practical experiences, at and across different levels of the cloud stack, from both academia and industry. --------------TOPICS-------------- We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. We invite submissions on the following topics: * Cloud Infrastructure - Processors, accelerators for Cloud processing: interactive, batch, and streaming - Cloud storage and databases - Programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Mobile cloud computing - Multimedia cloud computing - Cloud Networking, 5G - Runtimes, virtualization, containers, unikernels, event-driven serverless - Platforms and services for data and analytics - Operational analytics and DevOps solutions - Economics of cloud * Cloud services - X as a Service: Backend, Business Process, Database, Infrastructure, Network, - Platform, Security, Software, Storage, etc. - Microservices in the cloud - Support for mobility - Accelerators at the edge and core - Edge to core/data center - AI at the core and edge - Edge and fog computing - (Near) Real-time applications and services - Blockchain in support of Cloud Services * Cloud management - Big data management, platforms, analytics - Energy management in cloud centers - Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust - SGX, Trust zone, hardware security support - Hybrid cloud integration - Metering, pricing, and software licensing - Resource management and optimization - Service lifecycle management, automation - Performance, dependability, SLAs - Workload deployment and migration - Resource management and accounting - Cloud operating models including, public, on-premises and hybrid integration * Practice and Experience - Design, implementation and operation of cloud platforms - Practical design issues with infrastructure, platform and other as-a-service offerings - Experimental data on cloud operations and usage patterns - Managing big data, practical challenges and emerging techniques - Experience with management systems, tools, and integration --------------IMPORTANT DATES-------------- Abstract submission deadline (New): November 22nd 2019, 23:59 GMT Full paper submission deadline(New): November 29th 2019, 23:59 GMT Author notification:January 31st 2020 Camera-ready deadline:March 20th 2020 --------------SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS-------------- Please submit full (and short) papers by the full paper submission deadline in PDF format via the web submission form. All papers should be double blind. Full research/industry track papers should not exceed 10 pages double column, including figures, and tables. References can be additional pages. We do not distinguish research and industry, there is a unified track. Short papers are limited to 6 pages, not including references. Short papers should be clearly marked as such in the title. The manuscripts may not exceed 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style). --------------REVIEW PROCESS & PUBLICATION-------------- All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted manuscripts must contain original contributions, and their contributions must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for publication in another workshop, conference, or journal. After review, some full paper submissions may be offered to be published as a short paper (6 pages) or a poster (2 pages). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed). -- Flávia C. Delicato Professora Associada Instituto de Computação - Laboratório MídiaCom Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC / UFF) http://www.ic.uff.br - http://www.midiacom.uff.br =======================================

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Edge Woman of the Year
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Hi, I came across this one and thought to share if people have someone to nominate: https://www.edgecomputingworld.com/edgewomanoftheyear/ :) Thanks, Ildikó

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Next Tuesday's (November 19) weekly call is cancelled
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Hi, As a few people from the group will be at Kubecon next week we are cancelling the weekly call for next Tuesday. The next call will be on __November 26 at 1500 UTC__. For more information and agenda please see the wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Thanks, Ildikó

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Call for Paper: [Computers]: Special Issue "Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems" (Scopus, ESCI, 50% discount, Deadline Approaching)
by Blink Yu 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ==================================== Special Issue "Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems" Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2019 Guest Editor: Dr. Elena Casiraghi and Dr. Barbara Barricelli Department of Computer Science; Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/SIM_BS ===================================== Dear Colleagues, Over the past decades, a continuous increase in computational power, together with substantial advances in the digital image processing and pattern recognition fields, has motivated the development of computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems, augmented and virtual reality applications for surgical planning and simulation, and digital-twin applications for healthcare. Thanks to their effective, precise, and repeatable results, validated CAD systems are nowadays exploited as a valid aid during diagnostic procedures. Surgical simulation applications have become an essential part of surgical procedures as well as training, while research on the development of digital-twin applications in healthcare is continuously increasing, to deliver significant societal and health benefits. Similar important advances in the field of microscopy image analysis have been motivated by the advent of digital microscopes producing high-resolution digital images. Indeed, in the past thirty years the development of computerized systems that have helped pathologists in their analysis of images obtained by fluorescence, histochemical, and immunohistochemical labeling has become a main research focus for computer scientists and clinicians. State-of-the-art automatic microscopy image analysis systems automatically identify biological structures of interest and then try to reproduce the evaluation and quantification performed by expert pathologists and clinicians. These tools are much appreciated in the field for their potential to minimize the inherent subjectivity of manual analysis and to largely reduce the workload of clinicians via high-throughput analysis. This Special Issue intends to provide a comprehensive overview of recent, theoretical, and/or practical advances and new trends in biomedical/microscopy image enhancement and analysis, vision modelling, and general physiological models applied to biomedical/microscopy image processing and advanced visualization methods and devices, and to discuss their applications in the biological and medical fields. Keywords: BioMedical/microscopy image enhancement Biomedical/microscopy image quality assessment Biomedical/microscopy image analysis Computational approaches for citology and histology Computer-aided diagnosis Neuro imaging BioMedical/microscopy image databases Machine learning and artificial intelligence Image segmentation, registration, and fusion Interventional imaging systems Image-guided interventions and surgery Surgical and interventional simulation systems Interventional tracking and navigation Surgical planning and simulation Surgical visualization and mixed, augmented and virtual reality Digital twins and end-user development in biomedicine Interventional software and user interfaces Physiological models Dr. Elena Casiraghi Dr. Barbara Barricelli Guest Editors -- Mr. Blink Yu Managing Editor E-Mail: blink.yu(a)mdpi.com Skype: live:c91693ac8277e1f0 -- MDPI Wuhan Office No.6 Jingan Road, 430064 Wuhan, China MDPI Postfach, CH-4020 Basel, Switzerland http://www.mdpi.com -- Disclaimer: MDPI recognizes the importance of data privacy and protection. We treat personal data in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and with what the community expects of us. The information contained in this message is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify me and delete this message from your system. You may not copy this message in its entirety or in part, or disclose its contents to anyone.

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Meeting is on for this Tuesday (November 12)
by Ildiko Vancsa 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi, As I need to update the calendar invites it is a quick heads up that we will have an attempt to have a meeting this week to recap the discussions happened at the Open Infrastructure Summit in Shanghai last week. As we have KubeCon happening next week which may also affect attendance of our weekly call I’m hoping that this week and next week we can spread the information and then keep on working on items onwards. Dial in info and agenda is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Thanks, Ildikó

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