EGI Conference 2021 Outcomes Summary
The EGI Conference 2021 focused on advanced computing for research, discussing topics such as community engagement, service innovation, service delivery, business development, and EOSC. The conference highlighted the importance of community support, training programs, service innovation in cloud computing, and integration of HPC systems. Funding from the European Commission under H2020 supported the work of the EGI Foundation, aiming to advance computing capabilities for various research domains. The event covered updates on EGI-ACE portfolio expansion, user experiences, external services, and future directions related to EOSC.
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EGI Conference 2021 EGI: Advanced Computing for Research www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra EGI Federation looking forward: a summary of the Conference outcomes The work of the EGI Foundation is partly funded by the European Commission under H2020 Framework Programme
Topics 5 each Community engagement and support (Gergely Sipos) Service innovation (Diego Scardaci) Service delivery (Matthew Viljoen) Business development (Sy Holsinger) EOSC (Owen Appleton) www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 2 10/10/2021
Community engagement and support Community engagement Thematic Services (related session on the 19th + Keynotes + many other) o LOFAR Science Data repository will complete the EGI-ACE Portfolio in EOSC o Status update about OPENCoastS+ and WeNMR o First external service that builds on the EGI-ACE portfolio: AiiDAlab Report on EGI-ACE user experiences (talk on the 19th) o 20 applications received via the EGI-ACE open call o Dominantly from H2020 projects Strengthen marketing towards RIs in 2022 HEP: IceCube Earth Observation: ESA, JRC, C-SCALE Health and Medicine: BBMRI, ELIXIR Agricultural: Food Nutrition Security Cloud (FNS Cloud), MetroFood EOSC-related: Science cases in EOSC Future will start in 2022 (EOSC session) www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 3 10/10/2021
Community engagement and support Training Remote training with webinars continues (3 webinars in the pipeline) o https://www.egi.eu/webinars/ F2f training restarts in 2022: o EGI-ACE training workshop/bootcamps Support external users/communities setup and operate Data Spaces Learning Management System for EGI o Setup a Moodle instance by end of Dec o Improve training content and coherence across EGI and partner services www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 4 10/10/2021
Service Innovation Compute (Cloud/HTC/HPC): European Cloud Computing Hub4Cloud (continuation of H-Cloud) Open Source as a way to promote standardization HPC integration in EGI infrastructure ssh-oidc as a viable solution for integrating HPC systems with Check-in udocker: running containers in HPC environments without admin privileges 3 HPC pilots: HEP (support for HEP workloads), ENES (ECAS on top of EGI-ACE HPC resources of), HPC @ INFN (CINECA, CNAF and ReCaS-Bari). SODALITE project (TOSCA framework) and SQAaaS from Synergy Jupyter/Notebooks: EGI Notebooks as a demo platform for EOSC interoperability Lab Plugins for ESCAPE DataLake as a service, ScienceMesh EXPANDS Testing framework to ensure reproducibility www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 5 10/10/2021
Service Innovation Data Management: Data Transfer Updates from technology providers: o Globus: Globus Connect server V5 & iRODS support o FTS: enhanced stability, Swift protocol and token support CS3MESH4EOSC project data transfer solution for their File Sync & Share Science Mesh (Rucio+FTS, RCLONE) EUHubs4data pilot integrating EGI-DataHub with IDS ecosystem HIFIS transfer service setup, using WebFTS + OIDC + HTTP TPC Sensitive data storing, sharing and processing Piloting a new EGI service in LETHE project Phase I of the pilot: o Encrypted storage in the EGI Fedcloud managed by EGI Datahub o EGI Check-In to provide secure and federated access o EGI Cloud Compute service to provide various VMs for storage, datasets merging, ML tasks (incl. GPU) o EGI Notebooks available for specific tasks www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 6 10/10/2021
Service Innovation AAI/Check-in: Keycloak as new technology Service Registration and Configuration management dashboard (Federation Registry) Support to AEGIS guidelines for Interoperability MyToken from KIT solutions for easy to use, long lived, functionality limited tokens www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 7 10/10/2021
Business Development Tuesday Innovation Management Discussion on the innovation management framework for EGI Foundation as organization, EGI Federation and also in collaborative projects. Breaking down definitions and clarifying practical meanings Interfaces and role within EGI BMI and EGI DIH identified. Call for other innovation managers interested in working together EGI Digital Innovation Hub Presentation of the EGI DIH: objectives, service offer, interest for EGI members, partnership model. Presentation of business experiences working with EGI, as direct partners or direct collaborations through other projects/initiatives (EUH4D, EGI-ACE, EGI DIH). The value of working with EGI is clear. Companies close to academia potential target to explore. emGORA presented as a workspace focused on Manufacturing and Engineering, with similar roadmap to the EGI DIH and with potential for collaboration. Wednesday Mathworks/Matlab Demo Showcased integration with EGI Notebooks using a BYOL model Nice user story with researcher quickly using licence to get access to EGI compute via Cyfronet reducing computation time by 80%. Additional opportunities with existing Matlab licence holders within EGI Federation Members www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 8 10/10/2021
Business Development Wednesday (con t) AI session AI project developing new solutions on number of architecture levels Sensitive data phase I (see slide 7) New approaches to service discoverability, eHealth applications, support for data driven decision making, etc. Also has funding mechanisms for developers and projects Thursday Service Portfolio evolution workshop Strategic Landscape for EGI services and evolving the EGI service portfolios Community Services from EGI-ACE and integration of them into the service catalogue Intro to Strategic Objectives with breakout discussions on each i.e. Compute Continuum; Data spaces; AI/ML; Sensitive data Business Model Innovation Program Explore EGI Federation business models to increase the opportunities to provide services for research and innovation Design and validate with real-world use cases Several examples presented e.g. procurement, DIH partnership, AAI as a service, Globus Diversify funding streams, increasing EGI sustainability Develop new services or improve existing service functionality and delivery www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 9 10/10/2021
Service Delivery Relevant tracks: Delivering Services and Solutions track - 8 sessions Widespread applications across the e-Infrastructure/federation/users Demonstrations 9 across 9 days EOSCPortal, Infrastructure automation, FedCloudClient, DynamicDNS, MATLAB on EGI, ENVRI-KMS, Notebooks-as-a-VRE, OSCAR platform for cloud serverless computing All available in https://go.egi.eu/EGI2021_Demo Security topics (in Collaboration Across Boundaries and Innovating Services Together tracks as well) www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 10 10/10/2021
EOSC Working with EOSC projects EOSC Synergy o Workshop on managing quality (software, service, etc), use case with Expands o EOSC-Performance: benchmarking computing resources ( EOSC Test Suite cloud benchmarking (HNSciCLoud/OCRE/ARCHIVER) demo C-SCALE: o Bringing Copernicus big data analytics into EOSC o Digital transformation in EO New Services Pushing thematic community services from the EGI Community to EOSC o OpenCOASTS+, AiiDALab, LOFAR, WeNMR etc o Relate to strategic direction of pushing higher level services, moving up the stack Horizonatalising community services, e.g. ESCAPE Data Lake www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 11 10/10/2021
EOSC DIH and better commercial relationships Business model Innovation program Responding to changing funding models in EOSC and elsewhere EOSC Future Project Introduction High Level Architecture and roadmap EOSC Core development EGI delivering many of the components needed to provide EOSC core capabilities Onboarding to EOSC Demo: How to Onboard to EOSC Onboarding Via EGI or directly Encouraging Integration to benefit from EOSC Core www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 12 10/10/2021
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra Thank you for your attention. This work by the EGI Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The work of the EGI Foundation is partly funded by the European Commission under H2020 Framework Programme
