Welcome and framing the workshop

• Matthias Schramm (TU Wien)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) This workshop is about showing practical ways to collaborate with other research organisations – national and international – by jointly using central infrastructure clusters. The first talk will give an overview on Austrian research infrastructures and on strategies to access them. The presenter will show on a practical example, how Austrian research institutes in Graz and Vienna were cooperating to jointly face an increased need of data storage and how this cooperation led to the Austrian EGI membership.

EGI e-infrastructure - Advanced computing services for science

• Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) The EGI Federation is an international e-Infrastructure that was established in 2010, based on the results of several European projects, to provide advanced computing and data analytics services for research and innovation. EGI federates compute, storage resources, scientific datasets and various digital platforms and data analysis and simulation environments from over 300 international institutes, and makes these available for researchers, public authorities, companies and educators in Europe and worldwide. EGI is an open federation and the ACONET Association, representing a consortium of Austrian universities and research organisations, is an EGI member since 2022. This presentation will introduce the EGI federation as an aggregator of national capabilities, and will explain the several ways in which Austrian scientists, scientific projects, IT service providers and other stakeholders can benefit from the EGI technical and support services. The presentation will cover scenarios in cluster, cloud and HPC computing, distributed computing, containers, big data applications, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, disciplinary science web gateways, data federations and spaces, scientific reproducibility with Notebooks and Binder.

ACONET services and activities

• Michael Redinger (ACONET, UIBK)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) ACOnet is the Austrian National Research and Education Network (NREN) for science, research, education, and culture. It is operated by the Vienna University Computer Center, in co-operation with other universities in Austria. ACOnet provides a nation-wide fibre optic backbone with high-performance access to international academic networks via GÉANT, as well as to the Internet. Furthermore, ACOnet offers its members – among others all Austrian universities – various target-group-specific services to support research projects and communities. This talk describes the current infrastructure of the Austrian NREN, advantages for its members to use it and planned next steps.

Distributed Deep Learning with Horovod on EGI and on other cloud resources (REMOTE)

• Krisztián Póra (SZTAKI)
• Attila Farkas (SZTAKI)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) This presentation and demo will focus on the Horovod distributed deep learning (DL) framework and the reference architecture and service(s) built by SZTAKI in Hungary to support the setup of Horovod on cloud infrastructures. The presenter will briefly introduce the theoretics behind distributed DL, then will show ways to efficiently setup Horovod on EGI clouds and other cloud infrastructures to train DL models. The content will be relevant for those who research or apply (distributed) DL at any level, who want to support DL users within their organisations/projects. This is an hybrid session. Remote access is possible via: https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/68727616350?pwd=YW9mam1mZlRrakFyeUx1TUdvdllTZz09

Distributed cloud computing - Hands-on with EGI services

• Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI.eu)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) Attendees will be granted with access to EGI cloud resources, and will run scientific applications in the cloud to perform data transformation and analysis steps.

Reproducible research with TUW and EGI services - Presentation and hands-on exercises

• Josef Taha (TUW)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) This presentation and related hands-on exercises will introduce the concept of 'reproducible science' with Jupyter, Binder and DBRepo technologies, and will show real-life scientific examples on how a scientific dataset and data analysis pipeline can be shared and reproduced with the use of EGI cloud resources.

Q&A Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal)

Earth Observation Data Centre: Austrian cloud infrastructure in the EGI federation (REMOTE)

• Charis Chatzikyriakou (EODC GmbH)
• Christian Briese (EODC GmbH)

Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal) The EODC Earth Observation Data Centre GmbH, a public-private partnership is operating joint IT infrastructure of several Austrian universities and other partners with the goal of more effective collaborations, data sharing, and filling the gap between scientific results and operational services. Thus, the EODC is one of several examples of successful collaborations in Austria. This presentation gives an introduction in the background, existing services and infrastructure, available at the EODC as example for other cloud platforms in Austria. Furthermore, several research projects illustrate the development of services together with the EGI and international EGI partners. This is a hybrid session. Remote access is possible via https://tuwien.zoom.us/j/63422844447?pwd=MVo0bHFPWDhIN0FnOXhvSDcrSFI1Zz09

Discussion - How to benefit from the presented solutions in Austria and way forward for EGI and ACONET Room: A02006 (Faistauer Saal)