Hardware and software capacity

For a device to take on a piece of work, it needs two things.

• Hardware capacity: processor, memory and disk free at that moment.
• Software capacity: what the work needs installed. Transcribing audio needs a speech model; converting video needs a video library; running a function needs the environment it was written for; answering with local AI needs the model on the device.

Most devices have the first and lack the second. Zadara Edge Compute provides the second.

The platform provides the software

• A closed catalog. What can be installed comes from a list we maintain and verify, never from an arbitrary download. Each package is checked before it runs.
• Installed on demand. When a service needs something a device does not have yet, the Zadara Connector installs it there before doing the work.
• Without administrator rights. Everything goes into the Zadara Connector’s own folder, in user mode. The device’s system is not touched. (Running OCI images on Windows is the exception: it needs a Windows feature that the device’s administrator turns on once.)
• Kept and restarted. What was installed stays there, and comes back after the device restarts.

Your company decides where

You can prepare a specific machine ahead of time with what it is going to need, from the panel, and see what each device has installed. The services then only go to devices that can do the work.