TEACHING - D2.1: State-of-the-art analysis and preliminary requirement specifications for the computing and communication platform

This deliverable is aimed at providing an initial report on state-of-the-art analysis, a preliminary requirements elicitation and conceptual design of the Distributed Computing and Communication platform for CPSoS, that we refer as High-Performance Computing and Communication Infrastructure (HPC2I). That is the infrastructure standing at the basis of TEACHING platform and support the execution of project use cases. The deliverable focuses on the several technical aspects impacting on the definition of the HPC2I. It resorts to the scientific literature and project use cases for the identification and analysis of the relevant research and technical challenges. Such challenges eventually contribute to the elicitation of requirements, that are reported in a formal way with project-wide identifiers. Later in the deliverable is given the definition of a conceptual, high-level system architecture, that is intended to be the basis on which to develop a concrete, full-fledged, architecture that will be presented in deliverable D2.2. Then, this deliverable summarizes some baseline tools and technologies that are suitable candidates to be used for supporting the project activities. Finally are drawn our conclusions.