EGI Conference 2020

Session

Highlights from EGI participants and partners - Part 1

2 Nov 2020, 13:15

Room: http://go.egi.eu/zoom4

Conveners

Highlights from EGI participants and partners - Part 1

• Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.eu)

Description

This session offers a space for EGI Federation Participants and Partners to share the latest strategic and infrastructure developments in their domain.

The first part will focus on three presentations from initiatives in Bulgaria, Italy and Germany.

107. New developments in the Bulgarian National Centre for High Performance and Distributed Computing

Emanouil Atanassov (IICT-BAS)

02/11/2020, 13:15

The Bulgarian National Centre for High Performance and Distributed Computing (NCHDC, http://nchdc.acad.bg/en/) has been established as part of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in 2014 and has continued support in the updated roadmap for 2017-2023. The main resource of the centre is the supercomputer Avitohol, which comprises of 150 servers with dual Intel CPU and dual Intel...

68. INFN-Cloud, an easy to use, distributed, user-centric Cloud infrastructure and solutions toolbox

Doina Cristina Duma (INFN)

02/11/2020, 13:40

Full presentation: long (25 mins.)

Following up on 20 years of successful development and operation of the largest Italian research e-infrastructure through the Grid, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) recently created INFN-Cloud, an integrated and comprehensive cloud-based set of solutions, delivered through distributed and federated infrastructures. INFN-Cloud consists of two main types of resources:...

25. Helmholtz Federated IT and Accessible Compute Resources for Applied AI Research

Dr Uwe Jandt (DESY, on behalf of HIFIS, HAICORE, Helmholtz AI initiatives of the Helmholtz Association)

02/11/2020, 14:05

Full presentation: long (25 mins.)

Research is increasingly driven by close cooperation between teams from multiple institutions and often disciplines, leveraging rich scientific expertise and capacities. This puts pressure on the seamless and highly performant interaction of heterogeneous IT services. Such services include large data transfer, high performance computing, post-processing and analysis pipelines; add to that...