PHYSICS Project
H2020 PHYSICS aims to unlock the potential of the Function-as-a-Service paradigm through a vertical solution that will:
- Ease application development and maximize productivity by reusing ready-made and abstracted programming flows while incorporating the FaaS.
- Enable Platform-level functionalities to be easily incorporated by providers exploiting the computational space-time continuum
- Provide resource management mechanisms that will enable CSPs to offer competitive and optimized services.
Marketplace
PHYSICS has released a Reusable Artefacts Marketplace Platform (RAMP), in which internal and external entities (developers, researchers etc) are able to contribute fine-grained reusable artefacts and assets (functions, flows, controllers etc), for incorporating added value offerings of different types (controllers, optimizers, flow patterns, abstracted function nodes etc.).
Goal
RAMP aims to bring contributors and buyers from the cloud computing environment around one central artefacts marketplace. Leveraging the growing number of artefacts available in the RAMP platform :
- Large companies delivering consulting services could provide clear, tangible solutions for their clients’ processes through specific artefacts and integrate them into larger macro strategies.
- SMEs can pursue a beneficiary approach through the commercialisation of proprietary features potentially on the RAMP and additional consulting and training services.
- Other stakeholders could see the opportunity to increase their knowledge, know-how, and integration capacities in this platform.
- Companies or research entities can use the RAMP to improve existing products or to integrate the outcomes into different programs.