Data-centric-infrastructure Functional Architecture

Abstract

Society is changing at a rapid pace due to technical innovations in Internet technologies and cloud computing. In the near future, ever-more refined artificial-intelligence applications are expected, working on ever-larger data sets. Implementing such applications requires increasing the computational capacity available to the providers of such newly emerging services. However, energy consumption of such services must be reduced to achieve ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and the sustainable development goals. To fulfill both of these objectives at the same time, a drastic rethink of computing infrastructure is required. With this in mind, the IOWN Global Forum is creating the data-centric-infrastructure (DCI) functional architecture. This article gives an overview of the first DCI functional architecture reference document about this next-generation computing foundation.