Ludek Matyska will present how the e-INFRA CZ, the Czech national e-infrastructure, plans its future in the context of EOSC implementation in Czechia. We will show how the long involvement in the EGI federation helps define this role and the implications the EOSC implementation could have for e-INFRA CZ and its continued existence within the EGI ecosystem.
How did research communities change the way the EGI Federation is operating over the last 12 years? Who are the scientific communities that EGI supports and what is the contribution to the advancement of scientific computing EGI is making?
You will hear about all of this from Tiziana Ferrari, Director of the EGI Foundation.
the "Association for the Promotion of an Austrian National Research and Education Network (NREN)" – was founded in 1986 as a consortium of Austrian universities. Today, all Austrian public universities, the majority of universities of applied sciences, and some federal universities participate in the ACONET association. It does act as a strategic user advisory board for ACOnet – the Austrian...
Lithuanian Open Access National Computational Center is located in Vilnius university over two faculties:
Faculty of Physics (Saulėtekis) and Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. The supercomputer “VU
HPC” has over 0.5 Pflops infrastructure while its Sauletekis location achieved 0.3 PFlops real HPLinpack
speed up. The most important research communities are from universities, research...
Relying on OpenID Connect (OIDC) for identity and access management can significantly simplify the process of providing access to users, especially for non-web applications such as Secure Shell (SSH) where the management of typically used SSH keys is often laborious and error-prone.
As a counterpart to the server-side components that enable SSH via OIDC [[1]][1], the client-side tools...
Our modern cybersecurity landscape requires that we work collaboratively to effectively defend our community. In this talk we explore activities in this area and ways in which sites, organisations and infrastructures can get involved in our shared response to cyberattacks
To regain European competitiveness in Internet infrastructures, Europe cannot simply try to catch up with current Cloud hyperscalers: a bolder, forward-looking approach is needed.
Both Cloud technologies and IoT technologies have steadily moved towards a technical and business convergence often labelled as Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum, with Edge Computing becoming both the target and the...
Secondary school students learn about astroparticle physics in the scope of Open Science project of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Examples of analyses of open data published by Pierre Auger Observatory are provided on Kaggle platform. We compare this platform with local environment on desktop and with usage of EGI Jupyter notebooks. Effort to gain access, ease of use, stability, performance...
EGI Monitoring is the key service needed to gain insights into the Services that are part of the EGI Infrastructure. It is based on ARGO Monitoring Service that provides a flexible and scalable framework for monitoring status, availability and reliability of a wide range of services and is able to quickly detect, correlate, and analyze data for the detection of errors. Service Providers are...
The H2020 project Blue-Cloud is developing the thematic EOSC for ocean science, through a collaborative virtual environment to enhance FAIR and Open Science.
Blue-Cloud federated leading European marine Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, allowing researchers to combine, reuse, and share quality data across disciplines and countries with their existing MarineID account.
The...
The Virtual Imaging Platform ([VIP][1]) leverages resources available in the EGI biomed Virtual Organisation to offer open services for medical image data analysis to academic researchers worldwide. VIP relies on [Boutiques][2] to facilitate application installation and sharing. Boutiques applications are installed through software containers described in a rich and flexible JSON...
In the framework of the EGI-ACE project, we are deploying the webODV application on EGI infrastructure at https://webodv-egi-ace.cloud.ba.infn.it/ and provide large temperature and salinity datasets from the SeaDataNet (https://www.seadatanet.org/) project and the international Argo (http://www.argo.net/) program. webODV is the online version of the widely used ODV (Ocean Data View,...
Effects of anthropogenic noise on marine species were already recognized as a threat by the United Nations. Therefore, considering the 14th development goal (conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and marine resources), the proper management and reduction of underwater noise is a relevant contribution to the aimed sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems....
Academic infrastructures and institutions continuously develop new computing services to support research and education. These services are traditionally based on HPC batch systems and cloud services. Recently, a new computing paradigm based on containerization of applications has been adopted across the scientific community. Computations executed in containers are becoming increasingly...
Perun covers all technical and non-technical aspects of an Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI). The technical part is designed in a modular way, so it can be deployed as a standalone solution or can be incorporated into existing infrastructure. Different components provide technical solutions, as well as easy to use functions for dealing with non-technical features, like...
Education is becoming an increasingly important topic to help scientists work on photon and neutron sources. Other relevant areas such as advanced quantum technologies will also play a key role in the future. One of the goals of ExPaNDS (European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Photon and Neutron Data Service) is to train research scientists in order to better understand the issues, methods and...
Many end users of climate change information often need specialized products to perform their research, impact study or data analysis. For example, climate indices, like the standard ones defined by ECA&D and ETCCDI, cover most of the general needs. However, datasets provided on the climate data infrastructure...
Background – VIP (the Virtual Imaging Platform) is a web portal for medical imaging (MI) data analysis (Glatard et al. 2013). By leveraging computational and storage resources from the EGI e-infrastructure, VIP provides MI researchers with end-user services to run MI applications on this large-scale computing infrastructure.
Research Issue – Medical imaging is facing a...
AI4PublicPolicy is a joint effort of policymakers and Cloud/AI experts to unveil AI’s potential for automated, transparent and citizen-centric development of public policies. To this end, the project will deliver a novel Open Cloud platform for automated, scalable, transparent and citizen-centric policy management. The AI4PublicPolicy platform, i.e. the Virtualized Policy Management...
The objective of this poster is to summarize the process of development of the JONAS VRE, which consisted of three main parts:
1. Capitalization requirements
2. Capitalization development
3. Legacy
For developing the capitalization requirements, we started by presenting the definition of VRE and its main characteristics. The four different steps described in the literature for VRE...
Research infrastructures (RIs) are key entities enabling high-level research and fostering innovations in any research area. They provide an access to necessary capacities, innovative technologies, and expert human resources. Numerous research infrastructures have been developed in Europe during the last decades but none of them addressed chemical exposures. EIRENE RI (Research Infrastructure...
Science today is in a full digital transition and producing massive quantity of data and digital outputs. It is facing several challenges that are connected to criteria that do not match such transformation.
Open Science has the potential to increase quality and efficiency of research and innovation, enhance creativity, collaboration and transparency, bringing back the trust in science...
Benjamin Schumacher
Earth Observaton satellites create a growing data archive enabling environmental
monitoring services which advance the knowledge about planet earth significantly. openEO Platform builds upon this data archive and allows users to access and process Earth Observation data for their needs on a federated infrastructure. This approach exhibits several advantages:Firstly, the...
This demonstration will provide tutorials on how MATLAB users can connect to various EGI services with their own licenses to share, collaborate and access data and compute across the European Open Science network.
- MATLAB on EGI JupyterHub: Users will learn how they can use their own MATLAB licenses to access and analyze public datasets from hundreds of data providers via the...
OpenID Connect (OIDC), an authentication protocol that allows users to be authenticated by an external trusted identity provider, is becoming the de-facto standard for modern Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures (AAI). Although typically used for web-based applications, there is an increasing need for integrating shell-based services, such as Secure Shell (SSH), with federated...
In many scientific disciplines, expensive equipment is shared nowadays. The users – scientists, request specific experiments from facilities that perform them on their behalf. The outcome of such an experiment is a dataset, which can be quite huge in many cases. Our introduced system provides an easy way to make data produced by such specialized devices available to the scientific community....
Globus is a widely used platform for research data management among EU institutions. While many institutions have traditionally used Globus primarily for reliable file transfer, the platform has evolved to provide a comprehensive set of data management capabilities.
We will describe and demonstrate the major enhancements made over the past two years, and illustrate how new features and APIs...
MATRYCS is an European Commission co-funded project, started in October 2020, with a duration of 3 years; goal of the project is the design and develop an ICT platform for Big Data management in the building domain. The MATRYCS platform allows the stakeholders to create new business models and business opportunities relying on the value extracted from shared data.
The platform is deployed...
Research data management (RDM) in line with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles is increasingly becoming an important aspect of good scientific practice. In experimental disciplines, FAIR RDM is challenging because every step of the research process needs to be accurately documented, and data needs to be securely stored, backed up, and annotated with...
A.H. Weerts, Jaap Langemeijer, Pieter Hazenberg
Water reservoirs play an important role in relation to water security, flood risk, agriculture
production, hydropower, hydropower potential, and environmental flows. However, long-
term daily information on reservoir volume, inflow and outflow dynamics are not publicly
available. To enable deriving long-term reservoir dynamics for many...
D. Elia1, F. Antonio1, C. Palazzo1, A. D’Anca1, S. Fiore2 and G. Aloisio1,3
1 Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) Foundation, Lecce, Italy
2 University of Trento, Trento, Italy
3 University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
The Big Data revolution started at the beginning of this century has been propelled also by the advent of cloud computing solutions, which provided an...
OSCAR is an open-source platform that supports serverless computing for event-driven data-processing applications. It abstracts away the deployment and management of computing resources through elastic Kubernetes clusters. Thanks to its integration with the Infrastructure Manager (IM), deployed as part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), users can self-deploy these clusters on public...
The secondary use for research purposes of health data originated in health systems imposes a series of challenges: it has legal and organisational access constraints due to is high sensitivity; as its primary purpose is the caregiving, there is a lack of semantic and syntactic interoperability, i.e., the use of common data models and codifications, making hard to combine and exploit the...
In this work we present a web service that allows users to execute the full workflow that enables a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)-based drug discovery pipeline. NMR spectroscopy has been widely used in the early steps of drug discovery. It is especially suited to the structure-based approach in lead design and is the most powerful method for studies of structure, dynamics, and the...
Epidemiological, biological and virological characteristics of many viruses, including their potential ability to cross species barriers and become zoonoses, suggest that livestock species living close to humans should be considered as part of a global control in a renewed One Health concept. In this context, it is important to comprehensively evaluate if animals could represent risk factors...
Due to the continuous development of Internet of Things (IoT), the volume of the data these devices generate are expected to grow dramatically in the future. As a result, managing and processing such massive data amounts at the edge becomes a vital issue. Edge computing moves data and computation closer to the client enabling latency- and bandwidth-sensitive applications, that would not be...
Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, High-Performance Computing are three different fields with the same underlying idea, namely the processing and storing of data. Grid is standardized, Cloud is one step toward standardization, and HPC is an ongoing project around the world with a lot of in-house possibilities. At the National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular...
EGI Federated Cloud consisted of many different OpenStack sites from different organizations. In the past, users are often advised to access the IaaS services via the official endpoints of the sites. It is desired to have a universal client tool that can operate with all sites in the federation.
The FedCloud client is a high-level Python package for a command-line client designed for...
DPM storage support is gradually declining and will be discontinued in the coming years. Computing sites with this grid storage must decide what to use as their future storage technology and each migration strategy comes with different requirements for site administrator expertise, operational effort and expected downtime. We will describe the migration to dCache, which relies on tools...
Nowadays, more and more services are dynamically deployed in Cloud environments. Usually, the services hosted on virtual machines in Cloud are accessible only via IP addresses or pre-configured hostnames given by the target Cloud providers, making it difficult to provide them with meaningful domain names. The Dynamic DNS service for EGI Infrastructure is developed for solving the...
HPC federation is an important topic for the Tier-2 centres here in the Netherlands. Therefore, SURF (Dutch Cooperative for Education & Research) has put an effort to understand what federation might mean for the SURF member institutes and the SURF organization as a whole.
Our vision is to enable researchers to conduct their research using a federated HPC ecosystem in which they can easily...
Catherine Jones leads the UK based Energy Data Centre, a capability of the UK Energy Research Centre. The EDC holds a variety of research outputs relevant to energy research, some of which have a long-term preservation remit. The EDC undertook a short project in 2021 to understand the impact of preservation and collection management policies on EDC procedures and whether energy used for...
The management of data center in French public research institutes is subject to a regulatory framework that defines and sets out several policies, such as equipment purchasing procedures, the supply of fluids, etc.
This presentation will briefly detail this framework and how a policy to improve the environmental footprint of a data center can be conducted in France.
This session will be moderated by a panel of experts:
- Catherine Jones (UKRI-STFC)
- Sagar Dolas (SURF)
- Shaun de Witt (UKAEA)
The C-SCALE project is leveraging cross-disciplinary open-source technologies available through the European Open Science Cloud to develop an open federation of compute and data providers to provide homogenous access to resources, thereby enabling its users to generate meaningful results quickly and easily.
To facilitate community co-design of the open compute and data federation, its...
OPENCoastS+ (https://opencoasts.a.incd.pt/) is an online service that assembles on-demand coastal dynamics forecast systems for selected areas and keeps them running operationally for a period defined by the user. This service provides a tool that targets the needs of different users, from researchers to coastal managers, anticipating natural disasters and contamination events from...
PITHIA-NRF (Plasmasphere Ionosphere Thermosphere Integrated Research Environment and Access services: a Network of Research Facilities) is a project funded by the European Commission’s H2020 Programme to build a distributed network of observing facilities, data processing tools and prediction models dedicated to ionosphere, thermosphere and plasmasphere research. One of the core components of...
Activities on Quantum computing are increasing thanks to the push of large investments promoted by Governments, Industries, and international actors of research. This environment stimulates the creation and integration of tools and components to design and simulate quantum circuits.
At the current state of the art, there are several different languages and frameworks for programming quantum...
The scientific discovery process has been deeply influenced by the data deluge started at the beginning of this century. This has caused a profound transformation in several scientific domains which are now moving towards much more open and collaborative approaches.
In the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative launched by the European Commission (EC), the ENES Data...
In this demo we would like to present a scalable, cloud-agnostic and fault-tolerant data analytics platform for state-of-the-art autonomous systems that is built from open-source, reusable building blocks. As a baseline for further new reference architectures [2,3] it represents an architecture blueprint for processing, enriching and analyzing various feeds and streams of structured and...
Scientific services are becoming increasingly data intensive, not only in terms of computationally intensive tasks but also in terms of storage resources. In this scenario, Earth observation applications handle huge amounts of data, mainly large satellite imagery, to perform a wide variety of studies: from the monitorization of different land and water variables to the prediction of the...
We can say that EOSC has a vision of delivering a Seamlessly Accessible Cloud for Research. An obvious approach, then, is to start with existing systems, and ensure that science users can use them as a joined-up offering, without problems of accessibility, interoperability or eligibility. Two of the best established systems in the pan-european domain are EGI's cloud compute service, and...
Climate change, both natural and anthropogenic, is a pressing issue of today, for which data-based models and decision support techniques offer a more comprehensive understanding of its complexity. The understanding of climate change is critical for supporting the needs of an ever broadening spectrum of society's decision-makers, as they strive to deal with the influences of Earth’s climate at...
The Blue-Cloud project makes substantial progress providing a collaborative cyber platform with smart federation of an unprecedented wealth of multidisciplinary data, analytical tools, and computing facilities to explore and demonstrate the potential of cloud-based Open Science and address ocean sustainability. Blue-Cloud is undertaken within the "Future of Seas and Oceans Flagship Initiative"...
EOSC-Performance is a platform available on the EOSC Marketplace to search and compare multiple computing sites, including those available to the EOSC community. Users can visually compare benchmarks results from a wide range of computing resources, covering cloud and HPC. Users and service providers can contribute to the platform by adding new benchmarks or uploading results for the computing...
Citizen Science data is being split across very many different portals, each portal operated by a small community with different APIs for fetching the data programmatically and returning data in a specific structure. Several efforts are done to integrate these disparate projects into useful open datasets. An example in biodiversity is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility dataset that...
As the projects ExPaNDS and PaNOSC are reaching the end of their terms, the PaN facilities are acquiring FAIR principles enabling the PaN community and scientists in general access and reuse of a wealth of data for multidisciplinary use cases.
The two projects have established firm foundations for the deployment and adoption of federated services to allow facilities and scientists to...
In the EOSC-Future project, ENVRI-FAIR partners are involved in developing two Science Projects (SPs), one about Invasive Species, and one about a Dashboard of the State of the Environment. The Dashboard should provide easy means to users to determine the state of the environment and follow trends of our Earth system for a selected number of parameters within the Earth components of...
Hermann Heßling, Michael Kramer, Stefan Wagner:
At the heart of future computing centers: research on algorithms
Future research facilities like the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) are confronted with zetta-scale computing: only a tiny fraction of the data collected by the thousands of telescopes and antennas can be archived in the long term. Consequently, the relevant...
The PROMINENCE platform, originally developed in the Fusion Science Demonstrator in EOSCpilot and extended in the Fusion Competence Centre in EOSC-Hub, was designed to allow users to transparently run batch workloads on clouds. All infrastructure provisioning and failure handling is fully automated and is totally invisible to users. Any number of clouds can be used simultaneously and...
Under the WeNMR banner various scientific web services are provided to the community such as DisVis, HADDOCK, PDBTools-Web, Prodigy, Whiscy, proABC-2 and Prodigy, all operating under the Utrecht University WeNMR portal - wenmr.science.uu.nl. Over the years, our aim has been, next to the now standard practice of simply providing the community with the source code for such tools, to also...
The federated science cloud of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, ELKH Cloud is one of the award-winner research infrastructures in Hungary. Members of the scientific community are not only using but are also developing and operating the cloud services: the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics provide the computing and data services...
EOSC is a pan-European initiative that offers access to resources and services that foster scientific research. It involves various stakeholders, from researchers, providers, facilitators, up to commercial users. As a result, EOSC provides variety of resources for an open science market in Europe. Currently, it provides access to diverse and large data sources, comprising research papers,...
The ["Distributed Deep Learning by Horovod" EOSC service][1] provides the infrastructure, resources and libraries to its users in order to perform effective distributed training of deep neural networks. Access to a ready-to-use Horovod cluster is provided through Jupyterlab. The talk will give a short introduction of the service developed and recently onboarded by the [Neanias EU project][2]...
The AI4EOSC (Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud) delivers an enhanced set of advanced services for the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models and applications in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). These services are bundled together into a comprehensive platform providing advanced features such as...
iMagine is a new EU HORIZON project, coordinated by EGI, which aims to deploy, operate, validate, and promote a dedicated iMagine AI framework and platform, connected to EOSC and AI4EU, giving researchers in aquatic sciences open access to a diverse portfolio of AI based image analysis services and image repositories from multiple RIs, working on and of relevance to the overarching theme of...
In this introductory session we will discuss the needed basis for security operations and how to use the results of risk management for the security architecture.
Authors: Eden MAMUT, Andreea PRESURĂ
Black Sea Universities Network, International Permanent Secretariat, https://bsun.org/
Abstract
The Black Sea Open Science Cloud (BSOSC) has been initiated as an activity included in the
implementation plan of the project BS CONNECT. The development of the concept of the
BSOSC started during the process of drafting the Strategic Research and...
As a follow-up to the [e-IRG online workshop][1], e-IRG plans to issue its next topic of the White Paper as part of its 2022 version. The title is "Realisation and enhancement of coordination and collaboration in the e-Infrastructure landscape covering the full spectrum of e-Infrastructures (networking, computing, data) and related services". The aim of this forward-looking topic is to address...
- Chiara Ferrari, Director of SKA-France and European SKA Forum Chair
- Tiziana Ferrari, Director, EGI Foundation
- Maria Girone, CTO, CERN OpenLAB
- Natalia Manola, CEO, OpenAIRE AMKE
- Antti Pursula, Head of Secretariat, EUDAT CDI
- Paul Rouse, Chief Community Relations Officer, GÉANT
- Matthias Schramm, Big Earth Observation Data for Environment, Vienna University of Technology
-...
Two new NGIs joined the EGI Council in 2022: ACOnet and University of Vilnius. In this session we will meet the Council representatives of our two new participants. We will hear about their national initiatives in support to scientific computing and open science and discuss how the EGI Federation can leverage such initiatives to improve its support to international user communities.
ACOnet...
