Description
From Millions to Billions: 20 years of excellence in scientific computing in Europe
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the EGI federation as European landmark infrastructure for scientific computing, an initiative conceived in the 90s that transformed forever the way infrastructures for data-intensive science are funded and operated. The EGI infrastructure of today is the largest federation of research data centres in the world, a hyperscale facility made possible by national and European investments spanning multiple regions of the world to serve more than 84,000 researchers from all scientific disciplines, and supporting a research output of more than 1,000 open access publications each year.
Started from DataGrid, a moonshot project funded by the European Commission and led by CERN with the participation of visionary technical architects from all over Europe, today the EGI Federation delivers cross-border access to the HTC, HPC and Cloud compute capacity of key research centres.
The session opens EGI 2023 and the EGI-ACE track, bringing insights into the state of play of scientific computing in Europe and internationally and its future opportunities and challenges.
EGI-ACE is a project that integrates capacity and data analytics tools from providers of EGI Federated Cloud and scientific communities with the European Open Science Cloud, and delivers the EOSC Compute Platform. The opening plenary and following sessions will feature how the project supported European Commission priorities and the EU Research and Innovation strategy 2020-2024.
Welcome to EGI 2023 by Volker Guelzow, EGI Council Chair
Welcome by Ministry of Education and Science, Marcin Michałowski, Chief Expert, Department for Innovation and Development
Welcome from the local host PSNC by Norbert Meyer, Director of Data Processing Technologies Division at PSNC
Scientific computing impact on open science, Tiziana Ferrari, Director, EGI Foundation
Panel on the opportunities and challenges of scientific computing
Marek Margrys, CYFRONET, speaker 10’ [EGI participant, Poland]
Alexandre Bonvin, Uni Utrecht, WeNMR PI [EGI largest user community]
Dick M.A. Schaap, MARIS B.V. and BlueCloud {EGI-ACE user community and data provider in EOSC]
Oxana Smirnova, Associate Professor at Lund University and NorduGrid Board Member
Magdalena Szwochertowska, Policy and Programme Officer @CNECT Unit C.1 Open Science and Digital Modelling at European Commission
Marcin Michałowski, Chief Expert, Department for Innovation and Development
