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Cloud Open Source Research Mobility Network

Objectives


CLOUDSTARS presents a joint research programme in the fields of Cloud computing and AI technologies. CLOUDSTARS pursues innovation in the Cloud infrastructures to support the next generation of low-latency, high-performance complex workloads. CLOUDSTARS also pursues high innovation in the Cloud, making the best application of artificial intelligence techniques and AI models with automatic adaptation to the computing resources


Cloud infrastructure

Development and benchmarking of open-source technologies to advance the next generation cloud infrastructure.

Serverless and Hybrid Cloud Application Design

Design and benchmarking of novel cloud and edge serverless middleware to leverage the advances in the cloud infrastructure.

AI and Data Analytics

Application of novel machine learning techniques for managing containerized cloud systems, involving the infrastructure and configuration of executions and services.


CLOUDSTARS architecture
Work Package Structure

The main objectives of CLOUDSTARS are:

  • Development and benchmarking of open-source technologies to advance the next generation cloud infrastructure, where it will play a vital role the development of new container technologies, as well as elastic and low-latency storage for ephemeral data, efficient resource management of hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs and smartNICs) and networking.

  • Design and benchmarking of novel cloud and edge serverless middleware to leverage the advances in the cloud infrastructure, which pivots upon all sorts of containerized technologies such as Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms, serverless containers, and event-based orchestration to open the serverless execution model to HPC and analytics workloads. The project will also explore how the platform should protect and govern data throughout its lifecycle.

  • Application of novel machine learning techniques (e.g., statistical and deep learning) for managing containerized cloud systems, involving the infrastructure and configuration of executions and services, and the optimization of data analytics platforms over serverless middleware and container infrastructures. The project will also explore the interplay between Edge and Cloud for enabling a diverse range of AI-enabled applications.
We note that CLOUDSTARS will also conduct standardization activities in industrial open-source projects such as those encompassed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), namely, Kubernetes, Istio, or Knative, to mention a few, and contribute to thriving open-source communities such as Apache Spark and Dask, or Lithops. The project will make public all the contributions to the different open-source projects and contribute to the European digital sovereignty and European standards such as Gaia-X.

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Deliverables


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Partners



The CLOUDSTARS consortium is a well-balanced team of industrial and academic partners:



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Researchers


The CLOUDSTARS consortium has an amazing team of researchers:


Maciej Malawski
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Maciej Malawski
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AGH
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Tomasz Szydło
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Tomasz Szydło
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AGH
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Marek Konieczny
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Marek Konieczny
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AGH
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Sławomir Zieliński
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Sławomir Zieliński
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AGH
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Bartosz Baliś
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Bartosz Baliś
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AGH
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Anna Maria Nestorov
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Anna Maria Nestorov
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BSC
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Josep Ll. Berral
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Josep Ll. Berral
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BSC
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Ferran Agulló
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Ferran Agulló
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BSC
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Luís Veiga
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Luís Veiga
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INESC
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Miguel Coimbra
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Miguel Coimbra
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INESC
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Pezhman Nasirifard
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Pezhman Nasirifard
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TUM
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Jana Vatter
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Jana Vatter
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TUM
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Alexander Isenko
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Alexander Isenko
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TUM
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René Schwermer
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René Schwermer
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TUM
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Herbert Woisetschläger
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Herbert Woisetschläger
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TUM
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Jürgen Cito
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Jürgen Cito
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TUW
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Nathanael Nussbaumer
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Nathanael Nussbaumer
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TUW
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Markus Böck
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Markus Böck
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TUW
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Aurora González Vidal
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Aurora González Vidal
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UMU
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Pablo Fernandez
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Pablo Fernandez
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UMU
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Jose Manuel Bernabe Murcia
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Jose Manuel Bernabe Murcia
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UMU
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Jesus Garcia
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Jesus Garcia
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UMU
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Alberto Robles Enciso
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Alberto Robles Enciso
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UMU
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Enrique Mármol Campos
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Enrique Mármol Campos
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UMU
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Aitor Arjona
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Aitor Arjona
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URV
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Gerard Finol
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Gerard Finol
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URV
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Pablo Gimeno Sarroca
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Pablo Gimeno Sarroca
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URV
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German Telmo Eizaguirre
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German Telmo Eizaguirre
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URV
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Pedro Garcia Lopez
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Pedro Garcia Lopez
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URV
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Pavel Chuprikov
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Pavel Chuprikov
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USI
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Shamiek Mangipudi
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Shamiek Mangipudi
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USI
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Animesh Trivedi
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Animesh Trivedi
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VUA
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Sacheendra Talluri
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Sacheendra Talluri
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VUA
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Matthijs Jansen
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Matthijs Jansen
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VUA
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Alexandru Iosup
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Alexandru Iosup
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VUA
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Jesse Donkervliet
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Jesse Donkervliet
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VUA
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Martin Staesser
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Martin Staesser
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WZG
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Maximilian Meissner
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Maximilian Meissner
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WZG
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Josef Spillner
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Josef Spillner
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University/Company
ZHAW
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Marc Sanchez Artigas
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Marc Sanchez Artigas
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URV
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About


Project title CLOUDSTARS: Cloud open source research mobility network
Grant agreement ID 101086248
Coordinator Dr. Pedro García López
Partners Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain)
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
Technische Universität München (Germany)
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Germany)
Stichting VU (Netherlands)
Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie (Poland)
Università Degli Studi di Trento (Italy)
Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
IBM Israel - Science and Technology LTD (Israel)
Nearby Computing SL (Spain)
Instituto de Engenharia De Sistemas e Computadores (Portugal)
IMB Zurich (Switzerland)
Zürcher Hochschule Für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Switzerland)
Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
IMB Watson (US)
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom)
University of Bayreuth (German)
IBM Research Europe – Ireland (Ireland)
Duration 01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
Overall budget 1,301,800.00€
Programme Horizon Europe - MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021
Topic HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01
Funding scheme HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges