Jekyll2022-10-13T18:00:03+02:00https://www.piccolo-project.org//feed.xmlPICCOLOPiccolo Presentation at IRTF COINRG Meeting at IETF-1092020-11-19T00:00:00+01:002020-11-19T00:00:00+01:00https://www.piccolo-project.org//2020/11/19/piccolo-coin-ietf109<h2 id="piccolo-presentation-at-irtf-coinrg-meeting-at-ietf-109">Piccolo Presentation at IRTF COINRG Meeting at IETF-109</h2>
<p>Date: 2020-11-19</p>
<p>The Piccolo project has done presentations on Research Direction and
on the Piccolo project at a meeting of the IRTF Research Group (COINRG)
on Computing in the Network (COINRG) at their meeting on November 19th
2020.</p>
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<li>Phil Eardley; <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/materials/slides-109-coinrg-19-piccolo-summary-00">Overview of Piccolo project “In-network compute for 5G services”</a>; Presentation at <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/session/coinrg">IRTF COINRG meeting at
IETF-109</a>;
November 19th, 2020</li>
<li>Dirk Kutscher, Jörg Ott, Teemu Kärkkäinen; <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/materials/slides-109-coinrg-directions-for-computing-in-the-network-00">Directions for Computing
in the
Network</a>
(<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kutscher-coinrg-dir">draft-kutscher-coinrg-dir</a>);
Presentation at <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/session/coinrg">IRTF COINRG meeting at
IETF-109</a>;
November 19th, 2020</li>
</ul>Piccolo Presentation at IRTF COINRG Meeting at IETF-109 Date: 2020-11-19 The Piccolo project has done presentations on Research Direction and on the Piccolo project at a meeting of the IRTF Research Group (COINRG) on Computing in the Network (COINRG) at their meeting on November 19th 2020.Piccolo European Research Project on In-Network Computing2020-11-11T00:00:00+01:002020-11-11T00:00:00+01:00https://www.piccolo-project.org//2020/11/11/piccolo-kickoff-press-release<h2 id="press-release">Press Release</h2>
<p>Date: 2020-11-11</p>
<p>Nine partners from leading companies and universities in the UK and
Germany (Arm, Robert Bosch GmbH, BT, Fluentic Networks Ltd., InnoRoute
GmbH, Peer Stritzinger GmbH, Sensing Feeling, the Technical University
Munich, and the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer), kicked off
the <a href="https://www.piccolo-project.org/">Piccolo research project</a> on
October 15th, aiming to set a shining example of European research
collaboration in challenging times.</p>
<p>Piccolo develops new solutions for in-network computing that
remove known and emerging deficiencies of edge and fog computing. Piccolo
aims to provide new levels of support for innovative applications
such as highly scalable vision processing and automotive edge
computing.</p>
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<p>The research direction in the Piccolo project is about developing
in-network computing platforms that are secure and ethical by design,
support fine-granular modularisation, are independent of specific
network architectures and that provide new levels of performance and
robustness by applying a joint optimisation approach for both
networking and computing resources.</p>
<p>The Piccolo project is a two-year
<a href="https://www.celticnext.eu/">CELTIC-NEXT</a> project and is funded by
<a href="https://www.bmwi.de/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html">BMWi</a> in Germany
and
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk">Innovate-UK</a>
in the UK, as well as the partners themselves.</p>
<p>“From the smallest sensors to more sophisticated applications, the IoT
is enriching and growing markets, creating opportunities for real-time
insights and autonomous action. The demands on compute and networking
will change significantly as we process the data generated from
billions of intelligent devices. As part of the Piccolo project, Arm’s
research team will look to address these demands by studying the
efficiency of serverless technologies, as well as looking at edge
compute for IoT performed using in-network computing,” says Chris
Adeniyi-Jones, principal research engineer,
<a href="https://www.arm.com/"><strong>Arm</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“Today, connected and automated driving are major technological
drivers in the automotive domain. This will heavily rely on timely
information sharing, generated from in-vehicle and external data
sources for decision making. Bosch is tackling the challenges of
collecting, processing, storing and disseminating such information
efficiently and secure. Piccolo´s vision of bringing resources closer
together is a significant step in this direction, and therefore, will
have a big impact in the automotive domain,” says Dennis Grewe,
Research Engineer at <a href="https://www.bosch.com/research/">Bosch
Research, <strong>Robert Bosch GmbH</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“Piccolo will help us to improve the agility and reduce the cost of
our market-leading 5G network, improve our internal network management
operations, and provide a new way for us to support third party
services on our evolving 5G infrastructure,” says Peter Willis, Senior
Manager, Software Based Networks, <a href="https://www.bt.com/about/innovation/research"><strong>BT Applied
Research</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“The next-generation of in-network computing will require secure and
decentralized computing infrastructure that can cater to different use
cases such as handling the massive influx of sensor data from
autonomous cars. We are looking forward to advance the Fluentic
Networks platforms for secure distributed computing over heterogeneous
networks through the collaboration with the Piccolo partners over the
next two years,” says Dr. Yiannis Psarras, Co-Founder and Managing
Director at <a href="https://fluentic.gitlab.io/"><strong>Fluentic Networks Ltd.</strong></a></p>
<p>“Piccolo will allow us to upgrade our Real-Time Ethernet Switch
“TrustNode” to a computing router. Ready for upcoming challenges in
public networks, industrial IoT and autonomous driving,” says Andreas
Foglar of <a href="https://innoroute.com/"><strong>InnoRoute GmbH</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“We are excited to expand our Erlang based GRiSP platform from IoT
devices to the cloud and everywhere in between. For computing to be
truly pervasive, it needs to also go In-Network,” says Peer
Stritzinger, Founder and Managing Director, <a href="https://www.stritzinger.com/"><strong>Peer Stritzinger
GmbH</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“We see a future where low-cost and massively scalable sensing of
human behaviours in real-world spaces will be unlocked by the ability
to redistribute real-time processing of visual and audio data between
edge and server elements in smarter, more dynamic and performance
efficient ways. We’re excited to be collaborating with Piccolo
partners to explore how network functions could enable this future to
deliver trusted and pervasive vision sensing applications,” says Jag
Minhas of <a href="https://sensingfeeling.io/"><strong>Sensing Feeling</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“In-network computing has the potential to embrace untapped resources
in the environment of mobile users, combining elements of pervasive
and cloud computing. This offers on-demand support for user-defined
applications to run code, access services, and interact with the
surroundings of a user as she moves. Piccolo constitutes another
major step in our work on cloudless services for decentralized,
privacy-preserving, and secure operation that keeps users in control,”
says Prof. Jörg Off of <a href="https://www.in.tum.de/en/cm/home/"><strong>Technische Universität
München</strong></a>.</p>
<p>“Finding new ways for computing in the network is a major challenge in
5G networks and beyond, for example for enabling privacy-preserving,
decentralized, and scalable next-generation applications. The goals of
the Piccolo project are well-aligned with Emden University’s
<a href="https://dirk-kutscher.info/publications/cfn/">Compute-First-Networking (CFN)
research</a>, and we are
excited to bring these concepts closer to deployment through our
colloboration with the Piccolo partners,” says Prof. Dirk Kutscher of
<a href="https://www.hs-emden-leer.de/en/"><strong>University of Applied Sciences
Emden/Leer</strong></a>.</p>
<h2 id="contact">Contact</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://piccolo-project.org">Piccolo website</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:info@piccolo-project.org">info@piccolo-project.org</a></li>
</ul>Press Release Date: 2020-11-11 Nine partners from leading companies and universities in the UK and Germany (Arm, Robert Bosch GmbH, BT, Fluentic Networks Ltd., InnoRoute GmbH, Peer Stritzinger GmbH, Sensing Feeling, the Technical University Munich, and the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer), kicked off the Piccolo research project on October 15th, aiming to set a shining example of European research collaboration in challenging times. Piccolo develops new solutions for in-network computing that remove known and emerging deficiencies of edge and fog computing. Piccolo aims to provide new levels of support for innovative applications such as highly scalable vision processing and automotive edge computing.