 Welcome to the OpenStack Summit, Boston. Can you please tell us your name and what you do? Okay, so hi, my name is Adrian Lebr. I am a new year researcher in France. So in AI is the French Grand Nantan Institution in computer science And actually I have been sharing a new initiative which is called the discovery initiative That helps to investigate how you can operate what we call the fog and the edge infrastructures Okay, so what is fog edge and massively distributed computing and why is it important right now? So basically during The last couple of years the main trends what to build what we call mega data centers type a actor like Google, Amazon and Microsoft so the idea is that you will mega data center where you put thousands of servers in order to cope with the demand of cloud computing Unfortunately with the trends of new usage such as internet of things Industrial internet tactile internet this mega data center cannot satisfy the needs in term of latency for such applications So we need to propose a new model that will be able to satisfy all these latency critical requirements And the idea is to deploy smaller data centers, but closer to the end users So the main idea will be to leverage the backbone the internet backbone and to deploy inside each network point of presence a Few couple of servers and those servers will be able to satisfy the needs in term of computations in term of storage for this new kind of applications Okay, can you give us one or two examples of how it would be used in layman's terms? Yes So so the typical Application you can think about is that you have your smartphone and actually your smartphone as you know as some limitation in terms of capabilities So the idea is that now with this new HDTV format all that stuff all this new 3D around the ring What you would like to have is that you would like to have enough capabilities to for example watch your TV your Show in 3D and in that case the idea will be to use actually the computation that will be provided by this edge Infrastructure so instead of running the application your smartphone You will run this application just close to the edge cloud you can have so that's the first Application that we can illustrate the second one will be something related to the medicals So you can think about tele-surgery applications where you have a doctor that want to Do some surgery remotely and in the same in this case the latency is very critical So you also have to provide a cloud computing computing capabilities much closer to this hand users Okay, so what role does open stack play in fog edge and massively distributed computing? So when we create this discovery initiative has a researcher we start from scratch That is we took a white paper and we start to think what can be such a system in charge of operating such a massively distributed infrastructure That is deployed close to the end user usage so we do some paperwork, let's say as we are used to a mansion in research and when we start to think about developing a poke a proof of concept We discovered that actually it will require a lot of engineering efforts and here comes open stack Actually instead of preventing the wheel we choose to join the open stack community in order to leverage How the rich ecosystem and to see how we can extend it in order to cope with our needs So what we decide to do is that we created a decade dedicated working group Which is called the fog edge and massively distributed working group within the open stack ecosystem And actually we try to gather and fed it hold the developers in order to create this new kind Operating system to operate fog and edge infrastructures. Okay, and and and where can our folks join this community? You mean sorry or get more more information. So Right right now as we saw during the opening keynote by Jonathan the fog and edge computing something that's really become trendy In the sense that now we are a lot of actors that are really interested by this new usage. So as I said, you have all this Internet industry all all this Tactile internet all these things around the high o.t. Movements and actually we Look that a lot of company now are really coming and are expecting From the open stack community a solution to operate such Massively distributed infrastructures. So our goal here within the the open stack community is only to try to see how we can combine our effort and how we can bring Such a new open stack vision during the next year Well, thank you for taking the time to chat with us. Enjoy the rest of the summit. Thanks. Thanks for the interview