Industrial Control via Application Containers: Migrating from Bare-Metal to IAAS

08/13/2019

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by   Florian Hofer, et al.

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Siemens AG

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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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berkeley college

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We explore the challenges and opportunities of shifting industrial control software from dedicated hardware to bare-metal servers or cloud computing platforms using off the shelf technologies. In particular, we demonstrate that executing time-critical applications on cloud platforms is viable based on a series of dedicated latency tests targeting relevant real-time configurations.