The EGI Conference 2015 was held in Lisbon, Portugal between 18-22 May, 2015.
The event was hosted by EGI.eu and IBERGRID, a partnership between the Portuguese National Distributed Computing Infrastructure (INCD) and the Spanish National Grid Initiative.
The Lisbon meeting was the first opportunity for the community to meet in the post-EGI-InSPIRE era and plan the work for the coming years. The programme was focused on cross-disciplinary services with thematic days, where research communities and competence centres of different disciplines can join forces to discuss common issues.
The EGI Conference 2015 was dedicated to the theme:
Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons
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The session brings together the EGI Distributed Competence Centres with the NGI International Liaisons and with the existing Virtual Research Communities to briefly inform each other on progress with implementing their workplans, and to invite the NGIs to support them in specific activities, particularly in the area of user engagement and support. The session also offers a venue to discuss priorities for discussions and sessions of the whole conference week.
Provisional agenda:
- Introduction and updates from EGI-Engage (Gergely Sipos)
- Updates on workplans (CC representatives; VRC representatives)
- Priorities for the week
The aim of this workshop is to share the experience acquired in the EUBrazilCC project and to present the federated e-Infrastructure and the use cases.
The EU Brazil Cloud Connect project (EUBrazilCC) proposes the creation of a general-purpose intercontinental federated e-Infrastructure joining different frameworks, like private clouds, supercomputing and cloud opportunistic resources to meet the demands of a wider range of user communities thanks to open standards for interoperability.
The workshop will also feature technical presentations of researchers from academia and industry interested in mechanisms for an interoperable and dependable infrastructure in a federated environment and supporting scientific applications.
The aim of this workshop is to share the experience acquired in the EUBrazilCC project and to present the federated e-Infrastructure and the use cases.
The EU Brazil Cloud Connect project (EUBrazilCC) proposes the creation of a general-purpose intercontinental federated e-Infrastructure joining different frameworks, like private clouds, supercomputing and cloud opportunistic resources to meet the demands of a wider range of user communities thanks to open standards for interoperability.
The workshop will also feature technical presentations of researchers from academia and industry interested in mechanisms for an interoperable and dependable infrastructure in a federated environment and supporting scientific applications.
Keynote speakers from the Research Infrastructures participating to the EGI Distributed Competence Centre will provide an overview of their technical roadmaps and will explain how the Competence Centre will help realizing them. The session provides an excellent opportunity to learn how international research communities spanning life science, art and humanities and natural sciences will drive the evolution of EGI and of distributed European cyber-infrastructures in the coming years.
Cyber attacks have become ubiquitous. To face current threats it is important to understand them.
To illustrate how and with which tools many of the current attacks are performed we have created an isolated environment in which the participants will change roles, and act as attackers against standard services. Scoring will be done based on the number of successfully compromised services. No prior knowledge on offensive security is required, this game is on the entry level,... Happy Hunting.
For more information and registration, go to: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2516
The aim of this workshop is to share the experience acquired in the EUBrazilCC project and to present the federated e-Infrastructure and the use cases.
The EU Brazil Cloud Connect project (EUBrazilCC) proposes the creation of a general-purpose intercontinental federated e-Infrastructure joining different frameworks, like private clouds, supercomputing and cloud opportunistic resources to meet the demands of a wider range of user communities thanks to open standards for interoperability.
The workshop will also feature technical presentations of researchers from academia and industry interested in mechanisms for an interoperable and dependable infrastructure in a federated environment and supporting scientific applications.
Keynote speakers from the Research Infrastructures participating to the EGI Distributed Competence Centre will provide an overview of their technical roadmaps and will explain how the Competence Centre will help realizing them. The session provides an excellent opportunity to learn how international research communities spanning life science, art and humanities and natural sciences will drive the evolution of EGI and of distributed European cyber-infrastructures in the coming years.
Cyber attacks have become ubiquitous. To face current threats it is important to understand them.
To illustrate how and with which tools many of the current attacks are performed we have created an isolated environment in which the participants will change roles, and act as attackers against standard services. Scoring will be done based on the number of successfully compromised services. No prior knowledge on offensive security is required, this game is on the entry level,... Happy Hunting.
For more information and registration, go to: https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2516
The requirements and plans for the evolution of the EGI Core Infrastructure will be presented and discussed. These concern the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace, Accounting, the Operations Tools and Resource Allocation through e-GRANT. The EGI Core Infrastructure tools support the federated management of a distributed infrastructure and are generally applicable to any distributed Research Infrastructure.
Discussion of the Competence Centre activities and research use cases driving the technical development of the EGI - EISCAT 3D technical infrastructures.
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Competence_centre_EISCAT_3D
Presentation of the EGI-LW CC framework and initial analysis of requirements from Case studies
The requirements and plans for the evolution of the EGI Core Infrastructure will be presented and discussed. These concern the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace, Accounting, the Operations Tools and Resource Allocation through e-GRANT. The EGI Core Infrastructure tools support the federated management of a distributed infrastructure and are generally applicable to any distributed Research Infrastructure.
Expert users from research communities, Research Infrastructures and providers of data management services are invited to participate to this session whose aim is to gather requirements and use cases to add data accounting to the EGI/APEL accounting system. In this context, Data Accounting is defined as accounting for who used a particular dataset and where, and is particularly relevant to data-driven scientific communities and archiving organizations who care about data reuse.
Data Accounting information and the credit system that can build upon it, will foster a culture of data reuse and sharing in Europe.
This session provides an opportunity to learn about the status of the EGI Federated Cloud, the capabilities currently offered and how different scientific communities are benefiting from them.
Who should attend?
- research communities contributing with cloud IaaS requirements
- cloud practitioners contributing to the technical advancement of the EGI federated cloud capabilities
- cloud providers willing to contribute to the realization of a international federated science cloud
Open science is an umbrella term that refers to the opening of the creation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge towards a multitude of stakeholders, from professional researchers to citizens. If successfully implemented, open science stimulates broader collaborations and accelerates scientific discovery, ultimately better addressing global challenges and bringing greater benefits for the society.
Opening the scientific process for creating knowledge means opening the access to a number of diverse resources like scientific instruments, scientific data, digital infrastructures and software tools, knowledge and expertise, all needed in some form to conduct research.
Opening these resources require the adoption of standards, the right legal frameworks and license, and clear rules for access. Yet, this is not enough to ensure open science to fully flourish. Engaged communities that contribute to the management and stewardship of these resources is essential. We call the collection of open resources for science for which engaged community contribute to the management through shared rules and norms the open science commons.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss with representatives from funding agencies, policy makers, data archiving organizations, knowledge institutions, research infrastructures and e-Infrastructures can contribute to the development of an open science commons.
The poster & demonstration session will be a slot dedicated to interactive presentations.
Posters:
The posters will be visible throughout the week in the poster area next to the demos & the coffee stations in the main floor of the conference.
Demonstrations:
The demos will be shown during this session and throughout the week in the demo booth.
Security practitioners, and indeed anyone else interested in operational security in EGI, are invited to join this session. We will present our current plans to evolve the security activities in EGI to support the new technologies and resource provisioning paradigms. This is aimed at maintaining a secure and trustworthy infrastructure while supporting new use cases and new ways to access the resources. Feedback from all will be very welcome as we define our plans and set priorities. A related session on security issues in the EGI Federated Cloud infrastructure will take place on 20th May.
This session presents the integration activities that will advance the IaaS capabilities of the EGI Federated Cloud, including the collaboration with the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre that will contribute to the technical integration of the Canadian federated cloud (CANFAR) for the realization of an international cloud infrastructure for astronomers, and the D4SCIENCE cloud infrastructure integration for the support of Marine and Freshwater biology with on-demand provisioning of Virtual Research Environments.
The technical requirements problems and opportunities for the realization of a multi-disciplinary international science cloud will be discussed with user communities, practitioners and cloud providers.
Who should attend?
- research communities contributing with cloud IaaS requirements
- cloud practitioners contributing to the technical advancement of the EGI federated cloud capabilities
- cloud providers willing to contribute to the realization of a international federated science cloud
Accelerated computing systems deliver energy efficient and powerful HPC capabilities. Many EGI sites are providing accelerated computing technologies to enable high performance processing such as GPGPUs or MIC co-processors. Currently these accelerated capabilities are not directly supported by the EGI platforms. To use the co-processors capabilities available at resource centre level, users must directly interact with the local provider to get information about the type of resources and software libraries available and which submission queues must be used to submit tasks of accelerated computing.
The session will discuss the status of the art and barriers with providers of GPGPUs or MIC co-processors in EGI, and will define a development roadmap to achieve the federation of these capabilities across EGI.
Service providers as well as user communities interested in the use of accelerated computing facilities across Europe are invited to participate bringing their requirements.
Open science is an umbrella term that refers to the opening of the creation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge towards a multitude of stakeholders, from professional researchers to citizens. If successfully implemented, open science stimulates broader collaborations and accelerates scientific discovery, ultimately better addressing global challenges and bringing greater benefits for the society.
Opening the scientific process for creating knowledge means opening the access to a number of diverse resources like scientific instruments, scientific data, digital infrastructures and software tools, knowledge and expertise, all needed in some form to conduct research.
Opening these resources require the adoption of standards, the right legal frameworks and license, and clear rules for access. Yet, this is not enough to ensure open science to fully flourish. Engaged communities that contribute to the management and stewardship of these resources is essential. We call the collection of open resources for science for which engaged community contribute to the management through shared rules and norms the open science commons.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss with representatives from funding agencies, policy makers, data archiving organizations, knowledge institutions, research infrastructures and e-Infrastructures can contribute to the development of an open science commons.
This session presents the integration activities that will advance the IaaS capabilities of the EGI Federated Cloud, including the collaboration with the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre that will contribute to the technical integration of the Canadian federated cloud (CANFAR) for the realization of an international cloud infrastructure for astronomers, and the D4SCIENCE cloud infrastructure integration for the support of Marine and Freshwater biology with on-demand provisioning of Virtual Research Environments.
The technical requirements problems and opportunities for the realization of a multi-disciplinary international science cloud will be discussed with user communities, practitioners and cloud providers.
Who should attend?
- research communities contributing with cloud IaaS requirements
- cloud practitioners contributing to the technical advancement of the EGI federated cloud capabilities
- cloud providers willing to contribute to the realization of a international federated science cloud
Open science is an umbrella term that refers to the opening of the creation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge towards a multitude of stakeholders, from professional researchers to citizens. If successfully implemented, open science stimulates broader collaborations and accelerates scientific discovery, ultimately better addressing global challenges and bringing greater benefits for the society.
Opening the scientific process for creating knowledge means opening the access to a number of diverse resources like scientific instruments, scientific data, digital infrastructures and software tools, knowledge and expertise, all needed in some form to conduct research.
Opening these resources require the adoption of standards, the right legal frameworks and license, and clear rules for access. Yet, this is not enough to ensure open science to fully flourish. Engaged communities that contribute to the management and stewardship of these resources is essential. We call the collection of open resources for science for which engaged community contribute to the management through shared rules and norms the open science commons.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss with representatives from funding agencies, policy makers, data archiving organizations, knowledge institutions, research infrastructures and e-Infrastructures can contribute to the development of an open science commons.
This session presents platforms and use cases of citizen science to scientific communities of EGI covering the wide range of potential capabilities such as desktop computing and pattern recognition, from biodiversity to digital social sciences and humanities. The outcomes expected vary from “in reach” activities towards policy roadmapping.
This session is aimed at policy makers, platform developers and any initiative and community supporting citizen science.
The aim of the EGI CSIRT is to prevent Security Incidents happening as these have the potential to have a high impact on both the reputation of EGI and also on the integrity and availability of the provided services. When security incidents do still happen, as they frequently do, we have to deal with these in an efficient manner with the aim of quickly fixing problems while keeping services operational. Many other infrastructures are also working in similar areas and today we already collaborate with these security teams.
Providing operational security for developing Infrastructures implementing new technologies is a constant challenge since the existing operational security frameworks and tool sets need to be extended to cover new methods of accessing and using the Infrastructure.
This workshop will consider the changes and improvements to make the EGI CSIRT more efficient and more sustainable for the future. We will consider how the collaboration on security with the existing e-infrastructures can be further developed, in terms of best practices, standards, and further collaboration on policies and procedures.
The session is not only very relevant to EGI, but also to the security practitioners from federated Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures that do/will interoperate with EGI.
ELIXIR is the European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information. ELIXIR work programme will implement the distributed infrastructure based on Hub and Nodes structure during the next four years and comprises Data, Tools, Compute, Training and Interoperability platforms. The ELIXIR EGI Competence center coordinates ELIXIR interactions with the EGI.eu and focuses on the contributions from the EGI to build the ELIXIR Compute Platform.
A vast range of data analysis activities that will be found within the
ELIXIR research community. ELIXIR needs to translate the technical service offering from the European e-Infrastructures for supporting handling of biological data. We have identified four driving scientific use cases for the next four years from e.g. marine metagenomics and genomic and phenotypic data for crop and forest plants. ELIXIR expects that the e-Infrastructures will choose which use cases they commit in the strategies with the aim to achieve scientific advancement in collaboration with ELIXIR.
We expect participation from all three major groups: the scientists in need of better understanding of the opportunities (and limitations) of e-Infrastructure services, e-Infrastructure technical experts that could help to formulate the technical use cases, and the ELIXIR technical service experts building a bridge between the former two groups. They all will benefit from mutual interaction, providing better services one one side and being able to influence which services are available to actually support the Life Science research activities.
We hope to establish the ELIXIR concept of 20+ Technical Use Cases, TUCs, that translate the technical functionalities made available from technical service providers for scientific data service providers.
The EPOS Competence Centre - open meeting session goal is to kickoff the EPOS Competence Center work.
After the presentation of EPOS e-Infrastructure concepts and involved stakeholders, the meeting will focus on the topics which will be further developed as use cases in EPOS CC: the implementation of AAI delegation, the orchestration of computational resources and authorization mechanisms in the case of computational seismology.
Also, as final achievement of the session, a roadmap for the developments which include the use cases to be developed, the roles and the contributions from each partner, will be outlined and agreed.
All representatives of organization involved in the EPOS competence center are invited to attend. Other stakeholders (e.g. projects, initiatives, institutional representatives) interested in the development of EPOS CC are also invited to attend.
The session is intended as an EGI CernVM-FS Task Force face to face open meeting, where members attending the Conference will have the chance to report on various aspects related to the CernVM-FS infrastructure across EGI sites (summary on deployment, new developments).
Site administrators and VO managers (members of the Task Force or not) are expected to attend the session to provide their feedback, also to find answers to possible CernVM-FS related issues (deployment and operation).
Also we look to establish contacts and explore possibilities to serve multi-VO projects (FedCloud, Dirac), also to expand the use of CernVM-FS service into the new emerging cloud environments by discussing with potential new users details on how to evolve the CernVM-FS service and infrastructure. Emphasis will be put on the potential of the CernVM Virtual Appliance, a complete and portable environment for developing and running data processing tasks.
By attending the session, the participants will be able to get in touch and share their experience and expectations, and create the basis for further collaborations.
Would you like to join us for a morning run?
Meeting place: in front of ISCTE-IUL, the venue of the EGI Conference.
The Run EGI is free and we welcome all runners, from beginner to advanced.
More information and Map available via: http://go.egi.eu/run
The Run
The route is a round loop of the Jardim do Campo Grande, a garden in central Lisbon, very close to Metro and to the conference venue.
The route is about 3 km along a paved surface, away from traffic and in flat terrain.
Topics: Large scale modeling in Nanotechnology covering Graphene spintronics, nanoclusters, magnetic structure of grain boundaries.
Main stream and prospective computational strategies will be introduced and their current implementation in different computing environments discussed with the aim to provide information about the specific requirements of Computational Nano-Community with the quest for tailoring the research computing infrastructure.
Who should attend: anyone who wants to support large scale modeling in Nanotechnology and Materials Science on HTC, HPC environments, and cloud-based solutions.
e-Infrastructures are evolving towards service-oriented provision with on-demand allocation and pay-for-use capabilities calling for a rethink of the procurement process for e-Infrastructure services.
Currently publicly funded resource providers and their users lack the knowledge and mechanisms to collectively tender & bid within a public procurement process. The goal of this session is to analyse opportunities and barriers for cross-border procurement of e-Infrastructure services and to identify best practices that could enable Research Infrastructures or large research collaborations to acquire services to support their research agenda collectively.
The session will include brief presentations by Research Community representatives outlining their computing models and foreseen approach to
resource provisioning, as well as the results of the pay-for-use pilot study performed in 2014 by EGI.
The work of the PICSE (Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe) on procurement barriers and the development of a procurement model will help guide the discussion.
This session is dedicated to introduce EGI Federated Operation Solution (http://www.egi.eu/solutions/fed-ops/), a cost-efficient framework to manage operations within a federated environment, to Research Infrastructures (Competence Centres) and e-Infrastructures.
This Solution is a combination of tools, services and expertise needed to run services smoothly and seamlessly for communities.
During this session it is expected to present capabilities offered by the EGI Federated Operations Solution and their future evolution.
There are a growing number of web pages offering advice on how to choose an open license for data or code. The advice they give is partly conflicting. This workshop is intended to get together the authors of such pages and others with expertise in this area to clarify the choices.
Among the issues to be discussed are:
- making a limitation of liability clause that is effective in European jurisdictions;
- the appropriate apportionment of liability between data user, data provider, and database administrator;
- how the provision of e-infrastructure can change the opportunities and risks of research misconduct;
- server side scripts: the tension between IT security and scientific transparency;
- licenses for web services;
- relationship between choice of license and choice of the business model for sustainability;
This workshop will compare experience and insights, and so inform future recommendations on choice of license. The development and publication of software, databases, and web services within the BioMedBridges project will provide use cases to inform the discussion. The workshop will consist of a series of short (ten minute) presentations, each preferably on a single issue.
Please contact chris dot morris at stfc dot ac dot uk if you can offer a presentation.
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing users to develop, run and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app. This double-session brings together various stakeholders from the EGI Community who are interested in the development, integration of PaaS solutions for research, and/or in using PaaS to deliver SaaS (Software as a Service) environments for researchers. The session aims to facilitate interactions among these stakeholders and move EGI towards an ecosystem where PaaS and SaaS services are operated alongside IaaS offerings.
Recognising the need for simpler and more harmonised access for individual researchers and small research groups, aka. members of the long-tail of science the EGI community started to design and prototype a new platform in October 2014.
This activity designs and prototypes a new e-infrastructure platform in EGI to reduce technical overhead requested to access to EGI grid and cloud computing services. The ultimate goal is to ensure that every researcher in Europe who can benefit from EGI services gets access to them.
The goal of this session is to present current status of work being done through demonstration of platform usage and discuss next step of launching the trial.
This session might be of interest to Operations Centers who wants to better support their individual researchers and small research groups.
The European Globus Community Forum (EGCF) annual event provides a unique opportunity for European Globus users and developers to present and discuss their work as well as to talk about challenges, find solutions, and exchange best practices. Orchestrating Workflows is the timely, yet so far often overlooked, focus of this years conference. As usual, there is ample opportunity for participants to give feedback on Globus technologies and their personal research requirements within a true community atmosphere.
The EGI Federated Cloud is the largest European publicly funded cloud infrastructure that through the support of open cloud standards allow the transparent instantiation migration of VM images across the federation. Cloud providers and security practitioners are invited to this session to contribute to the definition of the security profile of the EGI federated cloud.
Session is focusing on Service Level Management (SLM) in EGI Infrastructure. It covers the current status of resource allocation processes and supporting tool (e-GRANT) as first attempt to implement SLM. The expected outcomes of this session are the next steps towards more mature service delivery as well as requirements gathering and collecting feedback on existing solutions.
The first goal of the workshop is to present the latest results of the CHAIN-REDS project (www.chain-project.eu), whose objectives are promoting and supporting technological and scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures established and operated in various continents. The relevant e-Infrastructure services fostered as well as the scientific use cases supported will be described and discussed, with special focus on their power to enable inter-continental cooperation.
Second, the workshop aims at gathering three recently funded projects addressing e-Infrastructure development and Communities of Practices support in Africa in order to identify commonalities and complementarities and see if/how CHAIN-REDS legacies can be exploited and further expanded in a mutual collaboration environment.
For the above outlined reasons, the CHAIN-REDS workshop is a very good opportunity to get updated on the development and harmonisation of global e-Infrastructures and some of their very interesting scientific applications.
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing users to develop, run and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app. This double-session brings together various stakeholders from the EGI Community who are interested in the development, integration of PaaS solutions for research, and/or in using PaaS to deliver SaaS (Software as a Service) environments for researchers. The session aims to facilitate interactions among these stakeholders and move EGI towards an ecosystem where PaaS and SaaS services are operated alongside IaaS offerings.
The EGI Marketplace is part of the EGI Engage proposal. The session will be used to present the basic concepts and to gather input into the requirements for the EGI Marketplace.
The European Globus Community Forum (EGCF) annual event provides a unique opportunity for European Globus users and developers to present and discuss their work as well as to talk about challenges, find solutions, and exchange best practices. Orchestrating Workflows is the timely, yet so far often overlooked, focus of this years conference. As usual, there is ample opportunity for participants to give feedback on Globus technologies and their personal research requirements within a true community atmosphere.
Building on the short presentation on EGI SPG in the session on "Advancing the EGI Security Infrastructure" (19th May) this session will consider two security policy areas currently being worked on to meet the needs of the evolution of the EGI security policy framework. Members of the EGI Security Policy Group together with interested Security practitioners, service providers NGIs and VRCs are encouraged to attend. The topics for discussion will be confirmed nearer the time of the workshop.
The conference dinner of the EGI Conference 2015 will take place at the Palácio da Rocha do Conde d’Óbidos, the headquarters of the Portuguese Red Cross (Cruz Vermelha).
Doors open at 19:30 for a 20:00 start.
More information and directions: http://conf2015.egi.eu/social/dinner.html
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
The EGI Conference Business Track comprises 5 sessions over Thursday and Friday and is designed to bring business, academia and policy makers together to better understand the concrete examples currently available for immediate benefit, and investigate future opportunities through joint collaborations.
Presentations will provide participants with various aspects of innovation value chains, high-level/European initiatives supporting research and SME engagement, commercial organisations as both providers and consumers of services through use cases and collaborations, as well as examples of fostering reuse of open data and open services.
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management provides training in the fundamentals of service management and an approach to professional service delivery based on process orientation and delivery of value to customers. See www.fitsm.eu/fitsm-foundation-level for more details. The training is carried out across most of one day, culminating in an exam the following morning. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Lightweight Service Management, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2015 standard (see www.fitsm.eu for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000 but is intended to be a lightweight approach that is easier to implement in providers new to ITSM, SMEs and startups, federated scenarios, the research sector and other situations where ITSM is not heavily adopted. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session must be reserved, send a message via www.fitsm.eu/trainingrequest to express interest.
This session presents the requirements for the realization of distributed "research data cloud" that brings cloud and grid computing close to data for scalable access, use and reuse of research data.
In this session the state of the art and the requirements for a Open Data platform that will enrich the current EGI federated cloud capabilities, will be discussed.
The Open Data platform will allow the integration of various data repositories available in EGI and of those externally provided.
The session will show case a number of open data use cases and requirements
from different data providers and research disciplines, including fishery and marine sciences, agriculture, biodiversity and life science.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- research communities facing the problem of scalable access to distributed integrated data sets
- technology providers interested in contributing to a Open Data platform solution for an international science cloud
- data providers interest in fostering the access and reuse of research data
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
The EGI Conference Business Track comprises 5 sessions over Thursday and Friday and is designed to bring business, academia and policy makers together to better understand the concrete examples currently available for immediate benefit, and investigate future opportunities through joint collaborations.
Presentations will provide participants with various aspects of innovation value chains, high-level/European initiatives supporting research and SME engagement, commercial organisations as both providers and consumers of services through use cases and collaborations, as well as examples of fostering reuse of open data and open services.
Over the last months, we have developed a new EGI strategy for 2020 in consultation with members of the EGI Executive Board and the EGI Council. The goal of this workshop is to disseminate the content of the new strategy, to explain the key decisions, and to give you an opportunity to express your feedback.
The workshop is structured in two sessions of 90’. Each session is self-contained, therefore you can attend only one of them if you have commitments on other sessions.
After a brief introduction, we will create small discussion groups on specific topics that are facilitated by a moderator. During the session, you will have the opportunity to go through three discussion groups. At the end of the session, the key points emerged within the discussion groups will be summarised.
Target audience: all EGI stakeholders
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management provides training in the fundamentals of service management and an approach to professional service delivery based on process orientation and delivery of value to customers. See www.fitsm.eu/fitsm-foundation-level for more details. The training is carried out across most of one day, culminating in an exam the following morning. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Lightweight Service Management, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2015 standard (see www.fitsm.eu for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000 but is intended to be a lightweight approach that is easier to implement in providers new to ITSM, SMEs and startups, federated scenarios, the research sector and other situations where ITSM is not heavily adopted. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session must be reserved, send a message via www.fitsm.eu/trainingrequest to express interest.
This session presents the requirements for the realization of distributed "research data cloud" that brings cloud and grid computing close to data for scalable access, use and reuse of research data.
In this session the state of the art and the requirements for a Open Data platform that will enrich the current EGI federated cloud capabilities, will be discussed.
The Open Data platform will allow the integration of various data repositories available in EGI and of those externally provided.
The session will show case a number of open data use cases and requirements
from different data providers and research disciplines, including fishery and marine sciences, agriculture, biodiversity and life science.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- research communities facing the problem of scalable access to distributed integrated data sets
- technology providers interested in contributing to a Open Data platform solution for an international science cloud
- data providers interest in fostering the access and reuse of research data
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
The EGI Conference Business Track comprises 5 sessions over Thursday and Friday and is designed to bring business, academia and policy makers together to better understand the concrete examples currently available for immediate benefit, and investigate future opportunities through joint collaborations.
Presentations will provide participants with various aspects of innovation value chains, high-level/European initiatives supporting research and SME engagement, commercial organisations as both providers and consumers of services through use cases and collaborations, as well as examples of fostering reuse of open data and open services.
Over the last months, we have developed a new EGI strategy for 2020 in consultation with members of the EGI Executive Board and the EGI Council. The goal of this workshop is to disseminate the content of the new strategy, to explain the key decisions, and to give you an opportunity to express your feedback.
The workshop is structured in two sessions of 90’. Each session is self-contained, therefore you can attend only one of them if you have commitments on other sessions.
After a brief introduction, we will create small discussion groups on specific topics that are facilitated by a moderator. During the session, you will have the opportunity to go through three discussion groups. At the end of the session, the key points emerged within the discussion groups will be summarised.
Target audience: all EGI stakeholders
This foundation training course in federated IT Service Management provides training in the fundamentals of service management and an approach to professional service delivery based on process orientation and delivery of value to customers. See www.fitsm.eu/fitsm-foundation-level for more details. The training is carried out across most of one day, culminating in an exam the following morning. Successfully passing the exam will grant participants a Foundation Certificate in Lightweight Service Management, provided by the internationally recognised standards organisation TÜV SÜD.
The course is structured around the FitSM-1:2015 standard (see www.fitsm.eu for details), which is compatible with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000 but is intended to be a lightweight approach that is easier to implement in providers new to ITSM, SMEs and startups, federated scenarios, the research sector and other situations where ITSM is not heavily adopted. The FitSM standard and the training course are produced and run by the FedSM project, which is funded by the EC to bring improved service management to several infrastructures, including EGI.
Places for this session must be reserved, send a message via www.fitsm.eu/trainingrequest to express interest.
This session presents the requirements for the realization of distributed "research data cloud" that brings cloud and grid computing close to data for scalable access, use and reuse of research data.
In this session the state of the art and the requirements for a Open Data platform that will enrich the current EGI federated cloud capabilities, will be discussed.
The Open Data platform will allow the integration of various data repositories available in EGI and of those externally provided.
The session will show case a number of open data use cases and requirements
from different data providers and research disciplines, including fishery and marine sciences, agriculture, biodiversity and life science.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- research communities facing the problem of scalable access to distributed integrated data sets
- technology providers interested in contributing to a Open Data platform solution for an international science cloud
- data providers interest in fostering the access and reuse of research data
The aim of the Human Brain Project (HBP) is to accelerate our understanding of the human brain by integrating global neuroscience knowledge and data into supercomputer-based models and simulations. This will be achieved, in part, by engaging the European and global research communities using six collaborative ICT platforms: Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Computing, Medical Informatics, High Performance Computing, Neuromorphic Computing and Neurorobotics.
The cloud and high throughput computing requirements will be discussed with a focus on the use case for remote interactive multiresolution visualization of large volumetric datasets. Large amounts of image stacks or volumetric data are produced daily at brain research sites around the world. This includes human brain imaging data in clinics, connectome data in research studies, whole brain imaging with light-sheet microscopy and tissue clearing methods or micro-optical sectioning techniques, two-photon imaging, array tomography, and electron beam microscopy.
A key challenge in make such data available is to make it accessible without moving large amounts of data. Typical dataset sizes can reach in the terabyte range, while a researcher may want to only view or access a small subset of the entire dataset.
WHOM SHOULD ATTEND?
* NGIs cloud providers interested in how HBP can benefit from cloud provisioning for its big data integration needs and willing to support HBP
* technology providers interested in offering solutions and participating to tests
* members of the Federated Data Virtual Team
This session will bring together those EGI members who are active in the 'Engagement with new user communities' area and will offer them a forum to review and discuss EGI's Engagement Strategy, related recent experiences, and future directions to establish collaborations with potential new users. The EGI Engagement Strategy is described at http://go.egi.eu/engagementstrategy.
This session also serve as the first meeting of the 'EGI Engagement Board' since the start of the EGI-Engage project (1st of March). The meeting is open for everyone. Presence of the EGI Engagement board members are expected and is necessary for a successful session:
- NGI International Liaisons
- User Community Board members
- Representatives of Competence Centres
- Providers of user/community-facing tools
- EGI.eu members active in user engagement and support
Agenda points:
1. EGI Engagement Strategy - Overview and recent updates by Gergely Sipos
Updated EGI Champion programme by Sara Coelho
Community presentations (by VTs, NILs, Champions, UCB members, CC representatives)
Afonso Duarte: Reaching out to life science users
Discussion topics
Regular engagement teleconference meetings
AOB
Recap of technical possibilities and pending issues
Summary on data management
Prioritization of work in the next months
New challenges and ideas
EGI is serving many user communities, distributed collaborations, international virtual organizations, providing them a portfolio of federated services. Federated authentication and authorization is a critical capability that is needed to be productive in such a diverse landscape of use cases and service providers. The challenge of the AAI implementation is to fulfill the security and traceability requirements of the users and the service providers, and at the same time do not create barriers that prevent users to be quickly productive in the e-infrastructures.
The sessions will host presentations on the current state of the art of the e-infrastructures, in terms of AAI solutions, and the roadmaps for the evolution. In particular the EGI roadmap for AAI and roadmap of the AARC project will be extensively presented and discussed. The sessions will also host the contributions of many EGI user communities representatives.
Attending this session, the EGI and other e-infrastructures service providers representatives will learn the requirements of the users and the solutions that can help them to support their users' use cases. The service providers can then contribute in the definition of the roadmap with their requirements and experience. Also representatives from the user communities and the competence centres should attend the sessions, to bring their requirements and help to define a common set of requirements.
The goal of this session is to discuss the EGI roadmap for AAI developments, as well as the roadmap of the AARC project, developing sinergies between the projects, the e-infrastructure and the users. In particular for the EGI roadmap the aim is to reach a general consensus about the plans proposed, and to initiate the process of prioritization of a set of common requirements from the user communities to be included in the EGI plans.
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
The EGI Conference Business Track comprises 5 sessions over Thursday and Friday and is designed to bring business, academia and policy makers together to better understand the concrete examples currently available for immediate benefit, and investigate future opportunities through joint collaborations.
Presentations will provide participants with various aspects of innovation value chains, high-level/European initiatives supporting research and SME engagement, commercial organisations as both providers and consumers of services through use cases and collaborations, as well as examples of fostering reuse of open data and open services.
Education, together with research and innovation, is one of the priorities of EU investments to boost jobs and growth. Its importance is particularly relevant in complex scientific contexts which have an important impact on societal and economical strategies. Education in such interdisciplinary scenario is usually performed in university courses and through focussed training events and workshops. These are organised by scientific institutes and address scientists at various stages of their careers.
This session will address the requirements of educators and scholars operating in scientific domains strongly characterised by the usage of complex data analysis, mining, and modelling techniques. In particular, it will discuss how the Open Science Commons vision and supporting solutions may contribute to the introduction of innovative and powerful environments supporting education and practical uptake of scientific knowledge.
This session is a continuation of the training on Thursday (details at http://indico.egi.eu/indico/sessionDisplay.py?sessionId=41&confId=2452#20150521) and is only for those attending the training on both days.
This final session covers the final processes, exam preparation and the exam itself, leading to certification in IT Service Management according to FitSM.
Opportunities will be given to learn, provide and test implementations of open standards using testbeds made available to participants for this purpose. Standards to be highlighted at this event include the OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), and opportunities will be available for experts or community members interested in other standards, such as OASIS-Open TOSCA, DMTF CIMI, etc. to bring implementations and inform the community of their ongoing activities. This event is open to all participants. Remote participation is also possible - see http://cloudplugfest.org
EGI is serving many user communities, distributed collaborations, international virtual organizations, providing them a portfolio of federated services. Federated authentication and authorization is a critical capability that is needed to be productive in such a diverse landscape of use cases and service providers. The challenge of the AAI implementation is to fulfill the security and traceability requirements of the users and the service providers, and at the same time do not create barriers that prevent users to be quickly productive in the e-infrastructures.
The sessions will host presentations on the current state of the art of the e-infrastructures, in terms of AAI solutions, and the roadmaps for the evolution. In particular the EGI roadmap for AAI and roadmap of the AARC project will be extensively presented and discussed. The sessions will also host the contributions of many EGI user communities representatives.
Attending this session, the EGI and other e-infrastructures service providers representatives will learn the requirements of the users and the solutions that can help them to support their users' use cases. The service providers can then contribute in the definition of the roadmap with their requirements and experience. Also representatives from the user communities and the competence centres should attend the sessions, to bring their requirements and help to define a common set of requirements.
The goal of this session is to discuss the EGI roadmap for AAI developments, as well as the roadmap of the AARC project, developing sinergies between the projects, the e-infrastructure and the users. In particular for the EGI roadmap the aim is to reach a general consensus about the plans proposed, and to initiate the process of prioritization of a set of common requirements from the user communities to be included in the EGI plans.
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
The EGI Conference Business Track comprises 5 sessions over Thursday and Friday and is designed to bring business, academia and policy makers together to better understand the concrete examples currently available for immediate benefit, and investigate future opportunities through joint collaborations.
Presentations will provide participants with various aspects of innovation value chains, high-level/European initiatives supporting research and SME engagement, commercial organisations as both providers and consumers of services through use cases and collaborations, as well as examples of fostering reuse of open data and open services.
Education, together with research and innovation, is one of the priorities of EU investments to boost jobs and growth. Its importance is particularly relevant in complex scientific contexts which have an important impact on societal and economical strategies. Education in such interdisciplinary scenario is usually performed in university courses and through focussed training events and workshops. These are organised by scientific institutes and address scientists at various stages of their careers.
This session will address the requirements of educators and scholars operating in scientific domains strongly characterised by the usage of complex data analysis, mining, and modelling techniques. In particular, it will discuss how the Open Science Commons vision and supporting solutions may contribute to the introduction of innovative and powerful environments supporting education and practical uptake of scientific knowledge.
Opportunities will be given to learn, provide and test implementations of open standards using testbeds made available to participants for this purpose. Standards to be highlighted at this event include the OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), and opportunities will be available for experts or community members interested in other standards, such as OASIS-Open TOSCA, DMTF CIMI, etc. to bring implementations and inform the community of their ongoing activities. This event is open to all participants. Remote participation is also possible - see http://cloudplugfest.org
EGI is serving many user communities, distributed collaborations, international virtual organizations, providing them a portfolio of federated services. Federated authentication and authorization is a critical capability that is needed to be productive in such a diverse landscape of use cases and service providers. The challenge of the AAI implementation is to fulfill the security and traceability requirements of the users and the service providers, and at the same time do not create barriers that prevent users to be quickly productive in the e-infrastructures.
The sessions will host presentations on the current state of the art of the e-infrastructures, in terms of AAI solutions, and the roadmaps for the evolution. In particular the EGI roadmap for AAI and roadmap of the AARC project will be extensively presented and discussed. The sessions will also host the contributions of many EGI user communities representatives.
Attending this session, the EGI and other e-infrastructures service providers representatives will learn the requirements of the users and the solutions that can help them to support their users' use cases. The service providers can then contribute in the definition of the roadmap with their requirements and experience. Also representatives from the user communities and the competence centres should attend the sessions, to bring their requirements and help to define a common set of requirements.
The goal of this session is to discuss the EGI roadmap for AAI developments, as well as the roadmap of the AARC project, developing sinergies between the projects, the e-infrastructure and the users. In particular for the EGI roadmap the aim is to reach a general consensus about the plans proposed, and to initiate the process of prioritization of a set of common requirements from the user communities to be included in the EGI plans.
Opportunities will be given to learn, provide and test implementations of open standards using testbeds made available to participants for this purpose. Standards to be highlighted at this event include the OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), and opportunities will be available for experts or community members interested in other standards, such as OASIS-Open TOSCA, DMTF CIMI, etc. to bring implementations and inform the community of their ongoing activities. This event is open to all participants. Remote participation is also possible - see http://cloudplugfest.org