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MARC Seminar Series 03
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Computing across the Continuum: An infrastructural View
Time: September 25, 2025, 14:15-15:00 (CET).
Location: Hybrid. Room: U2-040, Mälardalen University, Västerås Campus
Seminar Abstract
Cloud computing can provide applications with cheap and plentiful computing resources. Conversely, the edge portion of the network is ideal for time-sensitive applications requiring complete control of physical appliances, as is typical of embedded systems.
However, software developed for the Edge suffers from the tight binding between applications and infrastructure and from the great heterogeneity in terms of software and hardware stack (now exacerbated by hardware accelerators entering the field). Instead, to address the requirements of open-world cyber-physical systems, applications’ components should be re-deployed dynamically, over ephemeral federations of nodes. This mechanism is known as live migration and is state-preserving.
Enabling the same software to run on any device (build once, run anywhere) and orchestrating it with respect to temporal requirements are requisites for live migration. WebAssembly bytecode, instrumented to perform checkpoint and restore procedures, enables the former. A real-time, two-layer orchestrator could provide for the latter.
This talk is about an infrastructural view of the Edge-Cloud Continuum and the work related to the development of a real-time orchestrator capable of coordinating migrating software components.
Speaker
Edoardo Tinto, PhD student at the University of Padova, Italy. visiting researcher at Mälardalen University
Edoardo Tinto has an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Padova, Italy, where he studied real-time and distributed systems. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Padova, Italy, and a visiting researcher at Mälardalen University, investigating real-time orchestration strategies.
His research is on the design and development of scalable and real-time systems. His thesis is on a time-predictable runtime infrastructure for the Edge-Cloud Continuum, enabling the live migration of software components across heterogeneous nodes.
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