Abstract
This paper accompanies a keynote speech given at the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2018. The keynote offered an overview of ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ Cloud Computing, and what we might appreciate of each. In respect to ‘traditional’, issues of performance and energy efficiency, and the potential conflict between these, were discussed, as well as how these were still relevant to ‘new’ Cloud. Key to the ‘new’ Cloud is the advent of so-called function-as-a-service and edge, to which these issues of performance and lessons learned from energy efficiency can be applied. Important to this is to establish what we mean by edge as distinct from other things as may be similarly referred to. The relevance of new Cloud, then, to Connected and Autonomous Vehicles offers for an industry vertical that could exploit such formulations, and attempts to do this will lead to a variety of technical and research questions. Also, with a person in America having been killed by a vehicle acting autonomously near to the timing of this talk, safety concerns should never be far from thinking in addressing such questions.
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Arbitrary applications cannot be ‘installed’ as root, but pre-built applications can be loaded into and run on the container’s file system provided that no further privileges are needed. As such, it is possible to find out more about the working environment.
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This should also be distinguished from the notion of a cloudlet in the CloudSim simulator, where it is a task.
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For some, though, the large boxes with data centres in are called ‘containers’, not to be confused with those used in e.g. Docker - in case the current terminology is at risk of being in any way clear.
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The author is grateful to the CLOSER organisers for the invitation to give a keynote, and to the audience for remaining for its duration. The author is additionally grateful to Drs. O’Loughlin and Zakarya for their significant contributions through doctoral research to performance evaluation and energy efficiency, respectively. Work on CARMA is supported by EPSRC and Jaguar Land through grant EP/N01300X/1 as part of the Towards Autonomy: Smart and Connected Control (TASCC) Programme.
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Gillam, L. (2019). Will Cloud Gain an Edge, or, CLOSER, to the Edge. In: Muñoz, V., Ferguson, D., Helfert, M., Pahl, C. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29193-8_2
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