Cloud Open Source Research Mobility Network

CloudStars是云计算技术领域的一个开源研究移动网络。该提案结合了9个欧洲国家（西班牙、葡萄牙、英国、德国、荷兰、意大利、奥地利、波兰和瑞士）的11个学术机构，欧洲的两家公司（德国的SAP，西班牙的NearBy Computing），以及IBM的3个工业实验室（美国、瑞士和以色列）。主要的借调是在学术机构和IBM工业实验室之间安排的，但也包括相当数量的向SAP和NearBy Computing的借调。CloudStars将创建一个开源云计算的全球参考社区。参与者将把分布式系统研究的理论技能和经验与工业开源技术和尖端云和边缘基础设施结合起来。这将增加研究贡献的整体全球影响，帮助通过开源社区到达数百万感兴趣的第三方。该项目的总体目标是：1。通过对关键开源项目的贡献和对开源社区的参与，增加欧洲研究人员的影响力。通过在欧盟和全球开源参与者之间建立良好的网络，提升欧洲研究人员的职业生涯。通过标准的云容器技术提高科学和数据分析结果的可重复性。技术目标是：1；利用开源云原生计算基金会（CNCF）项目和GAIAX协议的下一代容器技术的开发和基准测试。基于容器技术设计新颖的云无服务器中间件，包括功能即服务、无服务器容器和基于事件的编排。应用新颖的机器学习技术来管理容器化云和边缘系统，包括执行和服务的基础设施和配置。

CloudStars is an Open Source Research Mobility network in the field of Cloud Computing technology. The proposal combines elevenacademic institutions in nine European countries (Spain, Portugal, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Poland, Switzerland), twocompanies in Europe (SAP in Germany, NearBy Computing in Spain), and three industrial laboratories from IBM (USA, Switzerland, andIsrael). The major flow of secondments is scheduled between the academic institutions and IBM industrial labs, but also including asignificant number of secondments to SAP and NearBy Computing.CloudStars will create a global reference community in open source Cloud Computing. The participants will combine theoretical skillsandexperience in distributed systems research with industrial open source technologies and cutting-edge Cloud and Edgeinfrastructures. This will increase the overall global impact of research contributions, helping to arrive to millions of interested thirdparties through open source communities.The general goals of the project are:1. Increase the impact of European researchers with contributions to key open source projects and the involvement in open sourcecommunities.2. Rise the careers of European researchers through well-established networks both across EU and with global open source players.3. Increase the reproducibility of results in Science and Data Analytics through standard Cloud container technologies.Technical goals are:1. Development and benchmarking of next generation container technologies leveraging open source Cloud Native ComputingFoundation (CNCF) projects and GAIAX protocols.2. Design novel cloud serverless middleware over container technologies including Function as a Service, serverless containers, andevent-based orchestration.3. Apply novel machine learning techniques for managing containerized Cloud and Edge systems, involving the infrastructure andconfiguration of executions and services.