Name: EGI2023
Start: 2023-06-19T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-23T16:20:00+02:00
Location: Novotel Poznań Centrum

EGI2023

from Monday, 19 June 2023 (09:00) to Friday, 23 June 2023 (16:20)

Monday, 19 June 2023

09:00 Closed Meeting
Closed Meeting
09:00 - 17:00
Training
Training
09:00 - 17:00
Contributions

09:00 EOSC DIH Bootcamp: Pitch To Win

14:00 Training on Using the EOSC Portal for business and Workshop on User Experience
Training
Training
09:00 - 17:00

14:00 Training
Training
14:00 - 15:30

Training
Training
14:00 - 15:30

Open Science (by OpenAIRE)
Open Science (by OpenAIRE)
14:00 - 15:30
To address questions about researchers’ obligations as a Horizon Europe (HE) grant holder in terms of Open Access to publications and Research Data Management, this workshop will outline those policies. We will present these HE requirements, followed by some time for Q&A. Participants will also be introduced to the main tools and services, including those from OpenAIRE, that provide help to project coordinators and research support staff on the requirements' compliance. In addition, this workshop will guide participants on HE data management plans (DMPs), and how to write these through practical examples, following their requirement set by the EC, and which will be made achievable by a better understanding of HE Open Science policies. Learn about: Mandatory and recommended Open Science requirements in HE. Compliance with the HE Open Access to publications mandate. Managing and sharing Research Data in HE projects. Delivering DMPs and reporting publications and datasets in HE. Tools and services to support HE projects
16:00 Covering all stage of scholarly communication with OpenAIRE services - Giulia Malaguarnera (OpenAIRE)
Covering all stage of scholarly communication with OpenAIRE services
- Giulia Malaguarnera (OpenAIRE)
16:00 - 17:30
Open Science is creating a paradigm shift and is becoming the norm in research. OpenAIRE offers concrete solutions for the implementation of effective Open Science and seamless integration into the European and the global open scholarly communication ecosystem. OpenAIRE Nexus is the latest project of OpenAIRE which offers a catalogue of services in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) covering all stages of scholarly communication including planning, publishing, sharing, discovering, and monitoring publications, data, software, and other research products. The objective of this session is to showcase the services that support successfully embedding Open Science practices within the entirety of the research lifecycle: starting from creating a Data Management Plan with Argos to offering concrete solutions for sharing sensitive data with Amnesia, how end users can onboard data in EOSC via the OpenAIRE Provide service, and monitor the openness of the research outputs with OpenAIRE Monitor. The research lifecycle comprises several steps including planning, discovering and collecting research, processing data, publishing and archiving, and assessment, which are implemented and carried out using different services and tools. The services presented here are organized in different portfolios and they are an integral part of the EOSC, ensuring your compliance and use of EOSC, and are openly available to the global scholarly communication community:  Planning: OpenPlato, Argos  Discovering & Collecting: CONNECT, EXPLORE  Processing: Amnesia  Publishing: Zenodo, EpiSciences  Archiving: PROVIDE  Assessing: MONITOR, OpenAPC    The result of using open and sustainable services that belong to the OpenAIRE infrastructure will not only benefit researchers, but also institutions and Research Infrastructures.
How to evaluate and improve reproducibility? Lessons learnt and good practices with VIP and EGI - Gael Vila (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)) Alexandre Cornier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
How to evaluate and improve reproducibility? Lessons learnt and good practices with VIP and EGI
- Gael Vila (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
- Alexandre Cornier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
16:00 - 17:30
**Duration** 90 minutes. *Constraint: the authors will only be available for giving the tutorial at the beginning of the week (Monday or Tuesday)* --- **Purpose** This tutorial is aimed at all researchers interested in evaluating and improving the reproducibility of their research results. It will be based on practical examples with VIP and EGI. **Context** [VIP][1] is an open web portal for medical simulation and image data analysis. By effectively leveraging the computing and storage resources of the EGI federation, VIP offers its users high-level services enabling them to easily execute medical imaging applications on a large scale computing infrastructure. Within the ReproVIP project, we aim at evaluating and improving the reproducibility of scientific results obtained with VIP. Our final goal is to provide an integrated, end-to-end solution, allowing researchers to launch reproducible executions in a transparent manner. **Content** This tutorial will include a theoretical (approx. 30min) and a practical part (approx 1 hour). During the theoretical part, the audience will learn about several issues in computational reproducibility (across computing environments, libraries, versions) and how they can be handled through technical solutions. The practical part will focus on the tools and services provided by VIP and EGI for evaluating and improving reproducibility (e.g. Jupyter notebooks, Binder instances and the VIP API). - As a first step, participants will carry out reproducibility experiments on a medical imaging application. This will be done through EGI notebooks making calls to the VIP platform, where the application is available as a service. - The same notebooks will be used to perform analyses and visualize the variability of the application outputs between several executions. - Finally, these notebooks will be used to learn how any scientific work can be shared through the EGI-Replay service, by deploying an EGI-Binder instance. **Requirements** Participants will need to bring their own laptops. The tutorial materials will be accessible online through their web browser. [1]: https://vip.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/
Training
Training
16:00 - 17:30

17:30 Training
Training
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 Training
Training
18:30 - 19:30
Tuesday, 20 June 2023

09:00 Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
11:00 EGI-ACE Closing Event
EGI-ACE Closing Event
11:00 - 17:30
Contributions

11:00 Unleashing the Power of Computing in EOSC: Overcoming Challenges with Effective Solutions

13:30 We did it! The innovation impact of EGI-ACE

16:00 The way forward. Computing in EOSC: evolving the role of the EGI Federation
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
19:00
19:00 - 21:00
Contributions

19:20 webODV - Interactive online analysis and visualization of environmental data

19:20 Demo: FedCloud client and FedCloud generic services: Dynamic DNS and Secret management

19:40 Demo: OpenRDM

19:40 Demo: Structural biology in the clouds: The WeNMR portal - Rodrigo Vargas Honorato (Utrecht University)

20:00 Demo:Effortless service deployment on distributed cloud enviroments through the PaaS Orchestrator - Gioacchino Vino

20:00 Demo: ENES Data Space: an EOSC-enabled and cloud-based environment for climate data analytics - Fabrizio Antonio (CMCC Foundation)

20:20 Demo: Using VIP to execute medical imaging applications on EGI infrastructure - Axel Bonnet (CNRS)
19:00 - 21:00
Contributions

19:40 OpenCitations: an open science infrastructure on its way towards sustainability - Chiara Di Giambattista (University of Bologna - OpenCitations)

19:40 C-SCALE Workflow Solutions for Earth system monitoring, modelling, and forecasting

19:40 How to adopt FAIR and Open Science principles in EOSC: supporting the research lifecycle management within Earth Science communities, with the RELIANCE project services

19:40 Towards digital twin oriented Virtual Research Environment

19:40 Building OpenStack Cloud with Kubernetes as Undercloud - Adrian Rosinec (CESNET)

19:40 Computational services in support of Coastal Digital Twins

19:40 AI-based Policy Making Process - Alessandro Amicone (GFT Italy)

19:40 Empowering European researchers with federated Earth Observation data analytics: An overview of the C-SCALE services

19:40 Easy Deployment of Dask and Jupyter Notebooks on Managed Kubernetes? - Adrian Rosinec (CESNET)

19:40 A digital twin engine for extreme weather events analysis on climate projections in the interTwin project

19:40 Green Computing progress and improvements within EGI-ACE - Poster

19:40 FitSM in the age of digital transformation

19:40 The IBiSCo Project - Silvio Pardi (INFN)

19:40 EUreka3D - European Union’s REKonstructed content in 3D

19:40 ELKH Cloud: milestones towards EOSC and ESFRI

19:40 Cloudification of scientific experimental data using Onedata - Tomáš Svoboda (Masaryk University)

19:40 Towards Coastal Digital Twins for bathing waters protection: predicting water quality with OPENCoastS+ - Marta Rodrigues (LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)

19:40 Blue-Cloud 2023 - Dick Schaap (Mariene Informatie Service MARIS BV)

19:40 iMagine - Ilaria Fava (EGI.eu)
Wednesday, 21 June 2023

09:00 Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 EGI & C-SCALE: Notebooks for Earth Observation - Petr Pospisil

10:30 EGI Workload Manager Service: activities in the EGI-ACE project - Gino Marchetti (CNRS / CC-IN2P3)
11:00 Data analytics platforms, tools and VREs for EOSC
Data analytics platforms, tools and VREs for EOSC
11:00 - 13:00
Over the last years the vast amounts of data created by fundamental research domains force us to consider new solutions for capturing, managing and processing of this data. Extracting knowledge or useful insights from this data deluge can be used for smart decision-making in various scientific domains. In the area of data science, a data analytics platform is an ecosystem of services that allow scientific researchers and Virtual Research Environments to perform big data analytics. A data analytics platform is an ecosystem of services that allow scientific researchers and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) to perform big data analytics. In this track we present how Data Analytics platforms, tools and VREs are helping scientific communities to daily work of modern scientific communities, Research Infrastructures, and the central role that EGI services is playing in this regard.

National infrastructures for Open Science in EGI and beyond
National infrastructures for Open Science in EGI and beyond
11:00 - 12:30
EGI is an aggregator of national and domain specific capabilities, with its governance based on national e-infrastructures (NGIs) and international scientific communities. The EGI federation brings together compute & storage resources, scientific datasets and various digital platforms and data analysis and simulation environments from over 30 countries, 300 institutes to make these available for Open Science worldwide. This session will zoom into the NGI, the national pillars of EGI, and into similar national providers of the global compute ecosystem. The session will include a series of talks that (1) highlight new services and plans from EGI national stakeholders, and (2) demonstrate alignment pathways for national EGI nodes and the ‘European Open Science Cloud’. Agenda: Robert Lovas (SZTAKI, Hungary): ELKH Cloud - milestones towards EGI, EOSC and ESFRI Giacinto Donvito (INFN, Italy): INFN-Cloud: a national distributed and federated cloud infrastructure supporting scientific communities Jerome Pansanel (CNRS): EGI and Open Science activities and plans in France Matthias Schramm (TU Wien, Austria): Emerging solutions for national and international EGI and EOSC users in Austria Jerry Horgan (Walton Institute, Ireland): Experiences and plans for compute delivery for Irish and EGI communities Eric Yen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): Asian collaboration on disaster mitigation based on deeper understanding approach Sa-kwang Song (KISTI, South Korea): Korea Research Data Commons - Focusing on Research Data and Software
OpenStack: Experience, challenges , solutions to OpenStack operations in the EGI Federation - Tom Clark (EODC GmbH) Adrian Rosinec (CESNET) Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu) Paweł Turkowski (CloudFerro) Gianni Dalla Torre (EGI.eu)
OpenStack: Experience, challenges , solutions to OpenStack operations in the EGI Federation
- Tom Clark (EODC GmbH)
- Adrian Rosinec (CESNET)
- Enol Fernandez (EGI.eu)
- Paweł Turkowski (CloudFerro)
- Gianni Dalla Torre (EGI.eu)
11:00 - 12:30
EGI Cloud federates more than 25 OpenStack cloud providers into a multi-cloud IaaS with Single Sign-On, application and data sharing and common operations for supporting the computing needs of research communities.Each of these providers operates its own OpenStack deployment with complete freedom on the internal architecture and uses its preferred tools for configuration management and monitoring. This session aims to share the challenges and solutions for operating highly-available, large-scale OpenStack deployments from current EGI Cloud providers and commercial providers. Subsessions Integrating EGI Check-in with OpenStack alongside other Open ID Connect providers. 11:05 AM - 11:15 AM Speaker: Tom Clark Beskar Cloud: OpenStack deployment on top of Kubernetes 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM Speaker: Adrián Rošinec CloudFerro. OpenStack and Identity Federation 11:35 AM - 11:45 AM Speaker: Paweł Turkowski Location: Room: Barcelona
11:00 - 12:30

Vision, business model and sustainability of the major European Data initiatives
Vision, business model and sustainability of the major European Data initiatives
11:00 - 12:30
The session aims to bring together leading experts from these initiatives to discuss the critical aspects of governing and sustaining data spaces in the digital age. The event will focus on sharing experiences and best practices for effective governance of data spaces and ensuring their long-term sustainability. Key topics that will be covered during the event include data privacy, data sovereignty, interoperability, and business models for data exchange. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in insightful discussions with experts from different organizations and learn about the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the field. Overall, this session promises to be a valuable platform for sharing knowledge and promoting collaboration among stakeholders involved in data space governance and sustainability. Part 1: EOSC+ AI on Demand + Data Spaces: Vision, business models and sustainability of the major EU initiatives EOSC, Ignacio Blanquer , EOSC Association, 10 min Data Spaces, Daniel Alonso, DSSC, 10 min AIoD, Barry O Sullivan UCC, AI4Europe Coordinator, 10 min (remotely) Presentation of an EDIC in Agricultural DS - Sebastien Picardat, 5min Panel Moderated talk, Marta Gutierrez 30 min Speakers in the stage: Ignacio Blanquer, Daniel Alonso, Gabriel Gonzalez Round table: EDIC, the new buzzword. Is an EDIC an appropriate structure for these initiatives? Other experiences / recommendations in the creation of legal entities ( ERICs, AISBLs, Non for Profit…) What information do you need to collect to sharpen your understanding of the customer segment (including their willingness to pay)? Overlapping or complementarity? Room for collaboration and user navigation between the 3 initiatives How can EGI help? Role of EGI as e-infrastructure and service provider in supporting these initiatives What obstacles would the customer segments face in working with these initiatives?

12:30 Dataspaces and AI/ML services in the agricultural domain
Dataspaces and AI/ML services in the agricultural domain
12:30 - 13:30
In this session we will present several ongoing initiatives that are related with creation of the Agriculture dataspaces. We will present as well the selected AI/ML focused projects that will contribute to the Dataspaces Introduction to the dataspaces in Agriculture - AgriDataSpace project (Raul Palma - PSNC) Building the Agriculture data Space in Poland - eDWIN and Datamite project (Maciej Zacharczuk - WODR) Building the AI Testing Experimental Facilities in agriculture and contribution to agriculture dataspaces - AgriFoodTEF project (Łukasz Łowiński - PIT) Agriculture AI based use cases in the ICOS and AI4EOSC projects(Marcin Plociennik - PSNC) Platform for yield and cost prediction of agricultural production - PRAGMATIC (Tomasz Wojciechowski - PULS)
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Contributions

13:00 pDNSSOC, deploying SOC capabilities in under 1 minute - Pau Cutrina Vilalta

13:00 DigiTwin 3D – a data-driven 3D interactive view on wind farms in the North Sea - Tjerk Krijger (MARIS)

13:20 Recommender Metrics Framework (RMF): Measuring the success of a Recommender System - Nikolaos Triantafyllis (National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET))

13:20 Step-Up Authentication in the Perun Identity and Access Management System
14:00 Advanced Cloud Services for Research
Advanced Cloud Services for Research
14:00 - 16:00
This session showcases several initiatives that deliver and expand cloud services for research communities: new providers, tools for improved access to federated providers, access to new computing paradigms and platforms for reproducibility and large-scale analytics.

Emerging Architectural Directions for Federated Digital Infrastructures
Emerging Architectural Directions for Federated Digital Infrastructures
14:00 - 15:40
Recognizing ongoing work on innovative architectures for federated digital infrastructures, this session will present key architectural directions in GAIA-X, Data Spaces Business Alliance, W3C, CERN and EOSC. Objectives To find potential areas of alignment or common architectural components, what is successful, what does not work. To find gaps or challenges that still need to be addressed by architectures to solve complex challenges supporting big data for AI/ML, complex research environments, IoT etc… Will standardisation help in the road to convergence ? Do particular deployment models favour federations in any particular way ? Blockchain, centralised, decentralised, wallets, pods etc … Session talks: presentations of major architectural families (60') Technical Convergence efforts of the Data Spaces Business Alliance 12’ Daniel Alonso GAIA-X architectural evolution 12’ Pierre Gronlier (remote) Foundational Elements for Federated Digital Infrastructure from the W3C 12’, Rigo Wenning (remote) Sharing applications and data between institutions with Open Cloud Mesh Hugo Gonzalez Labrador 12’ To EOSC and Beyond: Future Directions of the European Open Science Cloud, Diego Scardaci 12’ Discussion & Panellist: moderated by Mark Dietrich (30') Daniel Alonso BDVA Rigo Wenning, W3C Pierre Gronlier, GAIA-X Hugo Gonzalez Labrador & Giuseppe Lo Presti CERN Diego Scardaci EGI

Green Computing
Green Computing
14:00 - 15:00
This session will host presentations and discussions about recent activities and achievements on lowering the environmental impact of computing and analysis of Big Data within EGI Federation. It will include findings of the EGI-ACE Green Computing Task Force - good practice and knowledge dissemination undertaken by project partners, also will showcase the solutions taken to reduce the environmental impact of a Cloud site part of EGI Federated Cloud. Last but not the least, based on results and achieved experience, a potential roadmap to go further ‘green’ will be recommended to be implemented across data centres within the Federation, including how data centres can be influenced to support the adoption of ‘Green IT’ across their estate.

Shaping services for the EOSC: the experience of EOSC Future and the infraEOSC 07 projects
Shaping services for the EOSC: the experience of EOSC Future and the infraEOSC 07 projects
14:00 - 17:00
Over the past two and half years, EOSC Future and five other H2020 projects, C-SCALE, DICE, EGI-ACE, OpenAIRE Nexus, and Reliance, have been working and collaborating to enrich EOSC with new services and resources from different national, regional and institutional infrastructures across Europe. As the projects are approaching their final mile, it is time to gather to reflect on the enhanced EOSC-Exchange capabilities and their benefits to scientific communities. This session is divided into two parts which are open to all but have slightly different angles. First, we will hear presentations on the services developed in these projects, which might be especially interesting for other current or potential EOSC service providers. The latter part of the session focuses on real-life use cases of these services. This panel discussion might be especially interesting for anyone interested in using EOSC services in the future.

Trust, Security and Identity:
Trust, Security and Identity:
14:00 - 18:00
Solutions and use cases for federated trust and identity management aiming at trusted environments to exchange and analyse sensitive data

WLCG Community Meeting (Grid Deployment Board - GDB)
WLCG Community Meeting (Grid Deployment Board - GDB)
14:00 - 18:30
The Grid Deployment Board (GDB) is part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Collaboration (WLCG) and meets every month. Normally those meetings are held at CERN, exceptionally in other places.This session will host the June GDB meeting. The topics under discussion concerns operational aspects affecting the WLCG community and the EGI Infrastructure. The agenda can be consulted in: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1225113/ The Zoom connection details are shown in the indico page (if logged in) 14:00 → 14:10: Introduction (J. Flix) 14:10 → 14:45: Tier-1 deployment at NCBJ (H. Giemza) 14:45 → 15:10: UMD update plans (J. Pina) 15:10 → 15:30: Status report on sites migrating away from DPM (A. Paolini) 15:30 → 16:00: EOS Workshop summary (O. Keeble) 16:00 → 16:30: Coffee break 16:30 → 17:00: Using EGI Check-in tokens (V. Ardizzone) 17:00 → 17:30: Status of the new Helpdesk (P. Weber) 17:30 → 18:00: ARC update and future outlook (M. Pedersen) 18:00 → 18:30: Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing (CS3) 2023 summary (O. Keeble)
15:30
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Infrastructure Manager (IM): TOSCA deployment and orchestration in the Cloud Continuum - Miguel Caballer (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)

15:30 VISA at DESY - scientific analysis tools from your browser - Tim Wetzel
15:40 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Lightning Talks
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Lightning Talks
15:40 - 16:20
This lighting talk session will provide a glimpse into the innovative ways Artificial Intelligent and Machine Learning technologies, from cloud to edge, are being used to address real-world challenges in different fields, from smart cities to biology.

16:30 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in distributed/federated environments
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in distributed/federated environments
16:30 - 18:30
Jointly organised by AI4EOSC, AI4Europe and iMagine This session will feature several projects working on Artificial Intelligent and Machine Learning and contributing to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and AI-on-Demand (AIoD) platform. It will begin with an overview of these projects, providing insights into their architecture, services, and applications. Then, in the second part of the session, the focus will shift towards interoperability and integration among the projects, with an open discussion around technical and architectural issues, identifying common interest areas and sharing experiences, to foster a collaborative environment aimed at advancing the development and implementation of the AI platforms and services. In the workshop part of this session we will cover the major initiatives around the development and implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning services in the European Open Science Cloud. We will discuss technical and architectural issues, identifying common interest areas and sharing experiences. Relevant use cases will also be invited, in order to showcase their experiences and expectations.

17:00 Towards a sustainable funding for EOSC
Towards a sustainable funding for EOSC
17:00 - 18:00
This session will briefly present the results of the consultation survey of the EOSC Association Financial Sustainability Task Force which collected the EOSC community’s views on proposals for the financial sustainability of EOSC. Key members of the EGI community will discuss the results’ relevance to and alignment with business models for EGI. The session will discuss topics including the EOSC Core, EOSC Exchange and the federation of data in EOSC. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in discussion about EGI's business models and their alignment with potential EOSC business models, consequences for EGI of choices made for EOSC business models, and consequences for EOSC of EGI's business models. The survey was developed to ask the EOSC community about their views on the proposals for the financial sustainability of the main components of EOSC - EOSC Core, EOSC Exchange and Data Federation in EOSC - described in the Financial Sustainability Task Force’s interim progress report Towards Sustainable Funding Models for the European Open Science Cloud, published in November 2022.

19:00

19:00 - 23:00
Thursday, 22 June 2023

09:00

09:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 AI Models as a Service with OSCAR: Integration with dCache and EGI Notebooks - Caterina Alarcon Marin (Universitat Politècnica de València) German Molto (Universitat Politècnica de València)

10:30 Demo: openEO Platform - federated computational infrastructure for Earth Observation Data
11:00 EGI Digital Innovation Hub - Delivering value to the private sector
EGI Digital Innovation Hub - Delivering value to the private sector
11:00 - 12:00
EGI DIH is the Digital Innovation Hub created by EGI in 2022 to stimulate the collaboration of EGI with the private sector, formalising years of experiences supporting companies in innovation activities.The EGI DIH offers companies the possibility to join its community via different levels of engagement and where valuable services at technical, networking, training and funding level will be facilitated as part of the value proposition of the EGI DIH. The session will present the EGI DIH to the audience, with the participation of one of the success stories where we will learn the experience of the Finish company Binare IO working with the EGI DIH. Later Aruba, an active collaborator of EGI, will participate as an invited speaker presenting its commercial cloud service to the community.

Public Authorities: EOSC Support, Engagement and Exploitation of Services
Public Authorities: EOSC Support, Engagement and Exploitation of Services
11:00 - 13:00

11:00 - 18:00

Trusted Environments for the Processing of Sensitive Data
Trusted Environments for the Processing of Sensitive Data
11:00 - 12:00
Trusted Research Environments (TREs) enable researchers to have access to data and resources in a safe way. These environments contain various requirements even if there are also a number of similarities because of the nature of the sensitive data. Main motivation within this session is to explore different solutions and architectures within service providers. Additionally, the session focuses on EGI services and also discusses possibilities to create predefined cross border TRE service within the EGI community for project purposes. Program: Introduction A Secure Data Infrastructure that Supports Data Visiting; Martin Weise, Andreas Rauber (TU Wien) Lightning Talks on technical solutions and architectures of TREs Secure Processing Environments and Secure Data Archives in the Nordics and DICE-EOSC, Abdulrahman Azab (University of Oslo) In-situ processing of sensitive medical imaging data - The CHAIMELEON repository; Lozano Lloret Pau, Andy S. Alic, Sergio López Huguet, José Damián Segrelles Quilis, Ignacio Blanquer LETHE architecture solutions and lessons to learn; Ville Tenhunen Wrap-up
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Contributions

13:00 A Reference Architecture for Data Analytics for Autonomous Systems - Márk Benjamin Emődi (SZTAKI)

13:00 Improving UX of the Account Linking Process

13:35 HEP Benchmark Suite: the centralized future of WLCG benchmarking

13:35 Demo: Onedata - workflow processing, distributed datasets and archives - Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET)
13:00 - 18:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 EOSC Platform - Highlighting EGI contribution to EOSC Future
EOSC Platform - Highlighting EGI contribution to EOSC Future
15:00 - 16:30

EuroScienceGateway: an open infrastructure for data-driven research
EuroScienceGateway: an open infrastructure for data-driven research
15:00 - 16:30
The EuroScienceGateway (ESG) project, in collaboration with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and Galaxy, aims to provide a user-friendly scientific workflow and data integration platform. This initiative is focused on creating an open infrastructure for data-driven research that is robust, scalable, and integrated, allowing for federated computational infrastructures and democratization of research data analysis. The ESG project involves 17 European partners who are working towards integrating metadata and knowledge from EOSC services like Zenodo and Workflowhub.eu, to enhance the FAIRification of data analysis. In our session, we will provide an introduction to Galaxy, a platform that is increasingly being used by scientific communities. Specifically, we will take a closer look at usegalaxy.eu, the largest European instance, and discuss how it is administered and continuously developed. Our discussion will cover recent data developments such as object stores and distributed computing, which are relevant to a variety of research communities. We will explore principles and solutions related to open data initiatives like iRODS or Rucio and highlight challenges faced by new communities such as material sciences and astrophysics that are exploring Galaxy as part of ESG. Additionally, we will focus on the development of Pulsar (our distributed compute network), a core component of ESG, and our efforts to mature it to TLR-9, enabling the efficient utilization of resources across Europe.

15:15 Data Spaces: governance consultation
Data Spaces: governance consultation
15:15 - 16:45
Data Spaces, as called by the European Strategy for Data, present a multi-stakeholder governance challenge. The GREAT project is defining the governance framework underlying the Green Deal Data Space. The defition process involves co-design with the community, validation and endorsement to ensure a successful implementation. This session will present the Governance framework and gather feedback and suggestions for improvements from the community in an interactive way. An example of some of the complexities surrounding the governance of data spaces includes data monetisation. The Datamite project will present an overview of the challenges and solutions ahead in this area.

Federation management solutions - Latest achievements and technical roadmaps
Federation management solutions - Latest achievements and technical roadmaps
15:15 - 16:45
This session will present the status and technical roadmaps of the ‘Federation management solutions’ that the EGI federation relies on to integrate distributed resources and services into a Pan-European and Global infrastructure. The session will include short talks that present the recently added new functionalities of these solutions, and their future development plans for the coming years. The portfolio of EGI ‘Federation management solutions’ include: Accounting Repository and Accounting portal to collect HTC, Cloud, and Storage records and display them with different types of aggregation A Configuration Database (GOCDB) storing the EGI Infrastructure topology information A Messaging Service powered by ARGO Messaging Service (AMS), a real-time messaging service that allows users to send and receive messages between independent applications. A Monitoring Service, based on ARGO, to check the status of the EGI Infrastructure and create performance reports An Helpdesk Service based on GGUS to record incidents and service requests and to perform support activity to users and providers An Operations Portal for supporting the operations and coordination of the EGI Infrastructure. A Software Provisioning Infrastructure providing quality verified middleware to the EGI federated providers. A Security Coordination service managing and carrying on activities concerning EGI Infrastructure policies, Software Vulnerabilities, and security incidents handling.

16:30 Polish Data repositories for EOSC
Polish Data repositories for EOSC
16:30 - 17:45
Presents use cases of European and national data repositories which use the research infrastructure of National Data Storage (NDS) in Poland, among others biology, digital humanities, astrophysics data. NDS provides a platform for open science repositories supporting the EOSC approach in Europe. The session will include 4 presentations of application use cases from different science disciplines and presentation of the data services provided via NDS platform.
Friday, 23 June 2023

09:00 Bringing your AI models to EOSC
Bringing your AI models to EOSC
09:00 - 10:30
Tutorials: Introduction to the AI4EOSC platform (ca.10’) Build AI application /service based on existing AI modules using the AI4EOSC platform (ca.25’) Develop a new AI application / service with the AI4EOSC platform (ca.25’) Please, follow Preparation Steps BEFORE the session! Deploy your AI-based service for inference using the AI4EOSC platform (ca.25’) Speakers: Ignacio Heredia (CSIC), Khadijeh Alibabaei (KIT), Amanda Calatrava (UPV) (maybe: Valentin Kozlov (KIT)) Description: The AI4EOSC delivers an enhanced set of advanced services for the development and serving of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models and applications in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The project builds its technology based on the results of the DEEP-Hybrid-DataCloud project and other previous ICT projects, where the partners have developed new innovative services to support machine learning over the cloud. In AI4EOSC, we evolve those services to better support the new challenges ahead when building distributed AI applications and improve scalability and performance for large-scale AI applications..In the hands-on workshop, the AI practitioners and all interested people will learn how the AI4EOSC/DEEP AI platform supports typical scenarios for AI-based applications and services: re-use of existing AI modules on the marketplace, AI model development from scratch and training, and model serving. Acknowledgment: AI4EOSC receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe 2022 research and innovation programme under agreement 101058593 Relevant links: AI4EOSC project: https://ai4eosc.eu AI4EOSC/DEEP platform documentation: https://docs.deep-hybrid-datacloud.eu OSCAR framework for FaaS: https://docs.oscar.grycap.net/ Jupyter notebook repository (for the "Develop AI application" part): https://git.scc.kit.edu/m-team/ai/ai4eosc-egi23-tutorial
ENES Data Space: an EOSC-enabled and cloud-based environment for climate data analytics - Fabrizio Antonio (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC))
ENES Data Space: an EOSC-enabled and cloud-based environment for climate data analytics
- Fabrizio Antonio (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC))
09:00 - 10:30
The exponential increase in data volumes and complexities is causing a radical change in the scientific discovery process in several domains, including climate science. This affects the different stages of the data lifecycle, thus posing significant data management challenges in terms of data archiving, access, analysis, visualization, and sharing. In the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative launched by the European Commission, the ENES Data Space represents a domain-specific implementation of the data space concept, a digital ecosystem supporting the climate community towards a more sustainable, effective, and FAIR use of data. The service, developed in the context of the EGI-ACE project, aims to provide an open, scalable, cloud-enabled data science environment for climate data analysis on top of the EOSC Compute Platform. It includes both ready-to-use variable-centric CMIP collections from the ESGF federated data archive and compute resources, as well as a rich ecosystem of open source modules and tools, all made available through the user-friendly Jupyter interface. The data space infrastructure has been recently enhanced with a multi-GPU node to provide accelerated computing resources, thus supporting more advanced scientific use cases, such as those based on machine learning. The service is accessible in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) through the EOSC Catalogue and Marketplace (https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/enes-data-space). It also provides a web portal (https://enesdataspace.vm.fedcloud.eu) including information, tutorials and training materials on how to get started with its main features. This tutorial will showcase how scientific users can benefit from the ENES data space to perform data analytics and visualization applied to climate and weather domains. More specifically, the training will cover topics from simple analytics tasks to real application examples (e.g., computation of climate indices, machine learning training and inference, etc.) using open source tools, libraries and frameworks from the Python ecosystem.
Get experience with computing on Kubernetes
Get experience with computing on Kubernetes
09:00 - 10:30
Containers are becoming more widespread in the IT industry, they offer the advantage of having the entire software and runtime environment packaged together in a single package. The deployment of the containerized application might be tricky, it requires to have a container orchestrator installed - therefore the user has to usually manage the entire virtual machine with all required system services just to run the container. In recent years, it has been shown how the adoption of the popular container orchestrator - Kubernetes has made the work of developers and system administrators more efficient. The developers or users of computing resources do not have to debug the operating system, secure it and take care of individual system services just to run, for example, a web application or a database. Join our workshop and gain hands-on experience with computing on Kubernetes, and how it might help you with your research activities. Together, we will discuss the benefits and limitations of managed Kubernetes service. Then we will get our hands dirty going through the deploying of the secure application and exposure to the Internet.
Onedata hands-on workshop: Workflow Processing, Dataset Management and Archiving - Lukasz Opiola (CYFRONET)
Onedata hands-on workshop: Workflow Processing, Dataset Management and Archiving
- Lukasz Opiola (CYFRONET)
09:00 - 10:30
Onedata [1] is a high-performance data management system with a distributed, global infrastructure that enables users to access storage resources worldwide. It supports various use cases ranging from personal data management to data-intensive scientific computations. Onedata has a fully distributed architecture that facilitates the creation of a hybrid-cloud infrastructure with private and commercial cloud resources. Users can collaborate, share, and publish data, as well as perform high-performance computations on distributed data using POSIX-compliant data access applications. The latest Onedata release introduces the integration of a powerful workflow execution engine, which is powered by OpenFaas [2]. This integration enables the creation of complex data processing pipelines that can leverage transparent access to organizationally distributed data. In addition, the new software version offers several new features and improvements that enhance its capabilities in managing distributed datasets throughout their lifecycle. This hands-on workshop will focus on the latest Onedata release version, 21.02.1. Participants will explore its features through interactive exercises, with a special focus on data processing using automation workflows, distributed dataset management, and archive preservation. Other covered topics will include directory size statistics and the Space Marketplace. The training materials will correspond to the scenarios from the Onedata demonstration, presented during another session. The workshop will be conducted on the Onedata services at EGI DataHub, with the intention of easy reproducibility by EGI users. Keywords: workflows, distributed dataset, data lifecycle, data access, distributed systems, file sharing. Acknowledgments: This work was supported in part by 2018-2020’s research funds in the scope of the co-financed international projects framework (project no. 5145/H2020/2020/2). [1] Onedata project website. https://onedata.org. [2] OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple. https://www.openfaas.com/.
09:00 - 16:00

09:00 - 13:00
11:00 Getting started with the EGI Workload Manager Service - Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CNRS) Vanessa Hamar (CNRS)
Getting started with the EGI Workload Manager Service
- Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CNRS)
- Vanessa Hamar (CNRS)
11:00 - 12:30
The DIRAC interware is a complete software solution for communities of users that need to exploit distributed, heterogeneous compute resources for big data processing. DIRAC forms a layer between the user community and the compute resources to allow optimized, transparent and reliable usage. DIRAC can connect various types of compute (Grids, Clouds, HPCs and Batch systems), storage, data catalogue resources. DIRAC is used by several of the most compute intensive research infrastructures. The EGI installation of DIRAC is used by diverse communities, such as WeNMR (Structural Biology), VIP (Medical imaging), Pierre Auger Observatory (astrophysics). In this session we will demonstrate the service functionalities with some basic examples running user applications and managing user data. The expected result of this training is that the users are able to start working with the EGI Workload Manager service.
Processing Data from EOSC on EGI Compute resources training
Processing Data from EOSC on EGI Compute resources training
11:00 - 12:30
Over the past decade, the scientific research had been revolutionized by the infrastructure of distributed computing and the concept of open data. Compute-intensive research has once been a barrier for many researchers, but today the cloud and distributed computing infrastructure can provide researchers immediate access to an unlimited amount of computing power and allows them to ask questions that may not have been possible. Attendees will be guided through the necessary steps to find datasets in the EOSC Marketplace, gain access to EGI cloud resources to stage there the datasets they are interested in, and run scientific applications in the cloud to perform data transformation and analysis steps.

openEO Platform: Enabling analysis of large-scale Earth Observation data repositories
openEO Platform: Enabling analysis of large-scale Earth Observation data repositories
11:00 - 12:30
openEO offers a unique opportunity to experience a hands-on training session of the cloud computing platform and API to access and analyse Earth Observation (EO) data. Through its client libraries in R, Python and Javascript, JupterLab environment and Web Editor, users can develop processing workflows interactively. Three federated backends provide a scalable analysis of EO data from pixel to continental scale, offering a unified and reproducible solution. D This training session will be an interactive and engaging experience, allowing participants to explore the openEO platform capabilities and its use cases. Through the session, participants are expected to gain hands-on experience in using the platform and its client libraries, developing processing workflows, and analysing large-scale EO data. The training session will also be a great opportunity for participants to ask questions and interact with the openEO team.