Speaker: Jeremy Singer, Universiy of Glasgow

Title: AnyScale Apps

Imagine developing an app that can run on any device scale, from a tiny wireless
mote to a massive cloud datacenter. "Write once, scale anywhere" is the vision
of our Anyscale Apps project funded by EPSRC. We are now half-way through the
project, so this is a good time to take stock. Key concepts that have emerged so
far include:

* Task variants - interchangeable components with different non-functional
characteristics but the same API - e.g. quick-and-imprecise face recognition
versus more complex image processing.

* Economic utility theory to select which variants will execute at a given time

* The need for realistic benchmarks and testbeds - currently we are evaluating a
multi-scale Robot platform.