The computing landscape is changing rapidly as complex workloads that combine traditional simulations with large-scale data analytics and machine learning are becoming increasingly common. These workloads aim to apply large-scale and distributed computing to domains with high societal impact, such as autonomous vehicles and smart cities. The computing continuum of cloud, HPC, edge, and IoT technologies provides diverse capabilities and an ecosystem, including scalability, cost-effectiveness, high-performance processing, and energy efficiency.
- Cloud computing technologies have gained prevalence for their benefits in resource dynamism, automation, reproducibility, and resilience.
- Edge computing brings several complementary benefits, including energy and power efficiency and reduced latency, by processing closer to data sources at the network edge rather than on centralized cloud servers.
- HPC offers access to advanced computing techniques and massive processing capability for grand challenges and scientific discovery.
- IoT enables efficiency, automation, real-time monitoring, and remote control by connecting devices and sensors so they communicate over the internet. While IoT continues to evolve and integrate with cloud computing, its potential to transform industries and improve social aspects will continue to expand.
By combining these technologies efficiently, organizations can optimize their computing infrastructure to meet various requirements, foster innovation, and gain a competitive position in today’s digital landscape. The 2nd Workshop on Computing Continuum (CompContinuum’25) will provide the community with a dedicated venue for discussing fundamental challenges and research opportunities, deployment efforts, state-of-the-art and best practices in supporting efficient combinations of Cloud, Edge, HPC, and IoT technologies in a computing continuum setting. The half-day workshop aims to foster discussion of the following topics:
- What changes and optimizations to hardware and system architecture are critical for enabling the computing continuum?
- What changes to the software stack, including drivers, operating systems, middleware, and system software, are needed?
- What is critical for enabling a computing continuum’s power and energy efficiency, while contributing to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal?
- What workloads can leverage the heterogeneity, elasticity, and dynamic resource provisioning from the computing continuum?
Workshop co-organizers:
- Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, ICCS/NTUA – Greece [email protected] - Cordinator of the AERO project.
- Ivy Peng, KTH – Sweden [email protected] - Coordinator of the OpenCUBE project.
- Ramon Canal, UPC - Spain [email protected] - Coordinator of the VITAMIN-V project.
- Manolis Marazakis, FORTH - Greece [email protected] - Coordinator of the RISER project.