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Jim Xu TSC Chair, LFEdge General Board Member

Oleg Berzin TSC Co-Chair

Keynotes from LFEdge

Tina Tsou Board Chair, LF Edge 

PCEI (PCEI Architecture Document)

Public Cloud Service Providers and 3rd-Party MEC Providers are deploying Edge instances to better serve their end-users and applications, A multitude of these applications require close inter-working with the MNO Edge deployments to provide predictable latency & throughput, reliability, and other telco-grade requirements. The purpose of this blueprint family is to specify a standard set of APIs to expose towards Public Cloud and 3rd-Party MEC Service Provider instances at the Edge.

Oleg Berzin Fellow, Equinix

BIO: Technology leader with extensive expertise in creating, defining, developing and executing complex multi-technology programs focusing on forward-looking vision, innovation and revenue-driving results. Over 20 years of experience in Wireless and Wireline Communications, Internetworking and Product Development. Unique combination of leadership, strategic thinking, extensive practical work and individual expert technical skills.

ORAN

Sukhdev Kapur Distinguish Engineer, Juniper

BIO: Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of CTO organization and is driving the Contrail architecture, 5G, Edge, and Cloud Native initiatives. Sukhdev is a networking veteran with over 20 years experience in highly available distributed systems, cloud computing, virtualization, disaster recovery, policy based mobile workloads management, and software defined networks. He has held architectural positions in Arista Networks, F5, Cisco, Alteon, and others. He holds several patents in cloud computing, hierarchical data center deployments, cloud based disaster recovery, high availability, data center fabric automation,  etc.

P4, SDK and SmartNIC in the Era of Edge

Mario Baldi, Fellow, Pensando/AMD

BIO:

Mario Baldi is a Fellow at Pensando Systems, Milpitas, CA, USA (recently acquired by AMD) and Associate Professor of Information Processing Systems (on leave) at Politecnico di Torino (Technical University of Turin), Italy.

He holds an M.S. with honors (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering, both from Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Mario has held various positions in startup and established companies in the computer networking industry, as well as several visiting professorships at Universities in four continents. He has authored over 150 scientific publications and two books; he is an inventor on 36 patents. Over the years, his research and engineering work has focused on has focused on various areas related to computer networks, including programmable data planes, big data analytics, trust in distributed software execution, internetworking, high performance switching, optical networking, quality of service, multimedia over packet networks, and voice over IP.

CPS Robot Blueprint family

https://wiki.akraino.org/display/AK/Edge+Service+Enabling+Platform

Robotics is an important tool for achieving the SDGs. Workers will be able to focus on decent work and new innovation by improvement of labor productivity , as a result, they can move toward new economic growth. However, there are industries where it is difficult to apply current robotics. For example, agriculture, restaurant, food factory, etc.. The biggest challenge current robotics faces in the industry is how to control elastic and non-uniform object under variable circumstance. To apply robotics to any industry easily, this blueprint family develop and provide open software stack which can achieve the challenge.

Fukano Haruhisa Fujitsu

Robotics Edge HPC - Human safety and emergency commands are utmost priority for robot operation. To achieve reliable voice command response in mobile / SWaP-constrained robots – in the presence of servo motor noise, background conversations and sounds, and intermittent Internet dropout – requires high performance computing under severe size and power constraints. Noise removal, false positive resilience, variability in human commands, and personnel / proprietary sound privacy requirements pose difficult challenge, while at the same time utilizing cloud connectivity for containerization, orchestration, and maintenance telemetry. For the CPS Robot SESS Blueprint, Signalogic is adding 20,000 word vocabulary onboard ASR (automatic speech recognition) to demonstrate the onboard HPC approach

Jeff Brower, Signalogic

Edge Computing & Autonomous Vehicle

Weisong Shi, Professor, IEEE Fellow

Introduction of Nephio

Kandan Kathirvel Product Lead - Telco Cloud & Orchestration, Google

BIO: An established industry leader in delivering results in Product development, technology & telecommunications solutions, across strategy, and research & innovation with 20+ years of Telecommunications, Cloud & Datacenter experience. Former Akraino TSC Chair.

Key notes

Practice and Thinking of CFN (Computing Force Network) in China Mobile

Abstract: Introduces the new concept, new goal and vision of China Mobile's Computing Force Network (CFN), as well as including China Mobile's research progress and practice in multi-cloud management, ubiquitous computing force scheduling etc.

hanyu ding

 ICN BP

Kuralamudhan Ramakrishnan, Technical Lead, Intel

China Unicom's 5G MEC and Private Network Practices

Abstract: China Unicom's practices on MEC and 5G Private Network will be introduced.

Rong Huang

OpenStack at the Edge

Ildiko Vancsa Senior Manager, Open Infrastructure Foundation

BIO: As a senior manager I have a strong strategic mindset with an attention to detail and over 10 years of experience in technical leadership. An experienced speaker, I have been on stage in front of thousands of people, work with media and analysts, create strategic content for blogs and articles and can address both executives and developers at their level.

Highlights of LF Edge/Akraino Cloud Game White Paper

Davy Zhang

Software Director, Y-semi Computing

PCIe Net enable Object Storage at Edge

As the edge computing prevailing, the number of edge clusters are growing in million scales. The traditional mega data center with millions servers located in one site evolve to millions of small clusters worldwide. Hence we need a new solution not only account for this architecture shift, but also for energy constrains.

In this talk, we will introduce a novel PCIe-based system-level interconnect model and arm based micro-server cluster to make clusters more compact and energy-saving. As the practical application, we use object storage as an example and show how well the energy efficiency this architecture can achieve.

Keywords: PCIe Net, object storage, micro-server cluster, edge computing.

Bio: Dr. Fu Li (LEO) Leo Li
the pioneer of cloud native application on PCIe-based networking system. Dr. Fu Li comes with experience on cloud computing, HPC, named-data networking and system-level architecting and algorithm optimization.

Akraino Release 7 Planning

Jim Xu Oleg Berzin

Akraino Subcommittee Annual Report

Jeff Brower

Storage with K8s at the edge

Sagy Volkov, Distinguished Performance Architect, Lightbits

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