Welcome and institutional presentations from EOSC-SB delegates of Spain and Portugal
The Software Quality as a Service (SQAaaS) portal [1] has been developed during the lifespan of the EC-funded EOSC-Synergy project. One of its main contributions is to assess the quality of software projects, including the evaluation of both source code and services, through the Quality Assessment and Awarding (QAA) module. The quality criteria for source code includes static analysis, such as...
The Software Quality as a Service (SQAaaS) portal [1] has been developed during the lifespan of the EC-funded EOSC-Synergy project. One of its main contributions is to assess the quality of software projects, including the evaluation of both source code and services, through the Quality Assessment and Awarding (QAA) module. The quality criteria for source code includes static analysis, such as...
IBERGRID was created under the agreement of Scientific and Technological cooperation initially signed by Spain and Portugal in 2003. This presentation will provide an overview of the IBERGRID infrastructure status and related activities.
The INCD is a digital infrastructure supported by the Portuguese roadmap of research infrastructures of strategic interest (RNIE). INCD aims at the establishment, continuous development and operation of a digital infrastructure, whose object is to provide advanced computing and data-oriented services to the national scientific and academic community.
INCD provides computing and data...
New projects and activities at CESGA
After the entry into force of GDPR in 2018, life-science research communities have had to deal with a brand-new regulatory framework, very restrictive in terms of cybersecurity and privacy measures to be implemented in case personal data (even if pseudonymized) are involved in the studies. In Italy, we have dealt with this new legal scenario creating EPIC Cloud (Enhanced PrIvacy and Compliance...
This presentation aims at describing the experience of a Lattice QCD medium-size research group to develop a research program involving access to large scale HPC systems in Europe: from local clusters, to national resources, and ending with EuroHPC scale.
The presentation intends to be generic enough from the application point of view, but Lattice QCD will be used as a guiding example. We...
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...
The assessment of ozone in the atmosphere is an essential task for Climate and Environment studies. The ozone assessment service (O3as) supports scientists in determining ozone trends and metrics indicating a recovery from ozone loss for different parts of the world. It also aims to aid scientists to prepare the quadrennial Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion. Moreover, it provides...
This presentation gives an overview of Software and Service Quality Assurance Models as developed throughout several EU projects, and in particular EOSC-Synergy.
Quality Assurance is deemed as a way to more reliable and sustainable Software and Services.
The Quality Models outlined here are the "A set of Common Software Quality Assurance Baseline Criteria for Research Projects"...
The EOSC-Synergy project features the Software Quality Assurance as a Service (SQAaaS) platform that provides a toolset to bring over software-development-related mainstream practices close to researchers dealing with source code and IT services. In the present work, we will cover the SQAaaS portal, which aims at fulfilling a twofold objective. On the one hand it streamlines the adoption of...
The Jenkins Pipeline Library (JePL) is one of the core components of the EOSC-Synergy software and services quality assurance as a service platform (SQAaaS) aimed to foster the adoption of EOSC services through a quality based approach. It is a self contained component that facilitates the process of creation and execution of CI/CD pipelines.
The library facilitates the creation of...
In the past couple years, INFN has been working toward a major restructuring of its organization for the provisioning and evolution of its computing services. This process overlapped with the opportunities brought forward by the COVID-19 National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which offered significant funding to build a national infrastructure for science and industry. INFN will have a leading...
RCTS CERT is the incident response team for the Portuguese Research & Education Network, operating since 2000. The talk will describe the current cybersecurity services available to RCTS members, the cooperation at different levels and also the most recently faced challenges.
The purpose of this work is to present a deep learning method to determine the volume of red wine in different types of glass liquid containers from a single-view image, with potential real life applications in diet monitoring and wine consumption studies.
Diet assessment is mainly based on Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQs) that inquire individuals about the frequency at which they...
Dataverse is an open source data repository solution with increased adoption by research organizations and user communities for data sharing and preservation. Datasets stored in Dataverse are cataloged, described with metadata, and can be easily shared and downloaded. However, despite all its features, Dataverse is still missing an architecture that ensures a distributed, fault tolerant,...
The Openeo project, is a free and opensource tool to analyze and process satellite imagery. Openeo provides an API that can be used by the likes of R, python and JavaScript for interaction with the backend. To support this software the INCD infrastructure was prepared to both store and compute the data it will be fed in the context of the C-Scale project.
INCD has deployed a Kubernetes...
The United Nations has already acknowledged anthropogenic noise's harm to marine wildlife. Therefore, the correct control and reduction of underwater noise are relevant to the intended sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems, especially in light of the 14th development goal (conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and marine resources). Creating healthy...
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The digital transformation yields one of the biggest challenges for science, economy, and society at the beginning of the 21st century. The Helmholtz association recognizes the need to address those challenges, especially regarding the value and knowledge chains “from data to knowledge til innovation.” This touches most scientific disciplines and dramatically influences the development of our...
including exploitation discussion
The Portuguese Coastal Monitoring Network (CoastNet) is a research infrastructure (RI) included in the Portuguese Roadmap of Research Infrastructures, designed to improve the understanding of Portuguese coastal ecosystems’ functioning through the development of a remote coastal monitoring system. CoastNet aims at monitoring important coastal ecosystems of the Portuguese coast, through relevant...
This presentation provides an overview of the architecture and implementation of the new artifacts repositories for EGI.
The EGI repositories are developed, maintained and operated by LIP and IFCA/CSIC. The new repositories will host RPMs for (RHEL and compatible distributions), DEBs (for Ubuntu and compatible distributions) and Docker images for container based services and...
udocker enables the execution of docker containers in user space without requiring root privileges for installation or use. Udocker implements the pull, load, import and execution of containers by non-privileged users in Linux systems where docker is not available. It can be used in Linux batch systems and interactive clusters that are managed by other entities, such as grid infrastructures or...
The BigHPC project is bringing together innovative solutions to improve the monitoring of heterogeneous HPC infrastructures and applications, the deployment of applications and the management of HPC computational and storage resources. It aims as well to alleviate the current storage performance bottleneck of HPC services. In order to keep all development tasks tracking in a common path, some...
For the first time, Quantum Technologies and Quantum Physics are available at an understanding level that anyone can use and interpret. In the early years of the 20th century, Quantum Physics theory became more and more complicated as well as refreshing. This knowledge was only available to theoreticians and people with high-level studies, but now, it is possible to figure out how complex...
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Critical view at project outcomes
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Ideas for future work
In recent years, funding agencies and scientific journals have started
requiring that research data is FAIR: Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable and Reusable. This is not an arbitrary decision. It
reflects the intrinsic value of research data if additional use were
possible; for example, to support new research, as reference data, or
as pedagogical material.
Although some general...
Within the Helmholtz Association‘s federated IT platform HIFIS we have observed a trend towards more collaboration between different research groups and communities, both within Germany and the wider European research environment. These geographically distributed groups must manage their data so that members can access the data as needed. Meanwhile, funding agencies and scientific journals...
Digital Twin integrates continuously, in an interactive, two-way data connection, the real and the virtual assets. They provide a virtual representation of a physical asset enabled through data and models and can be used for multiple applications such as real-time forecast, system optimization, monitoring and controlling, and support enhanced decision making. Recent tools take advantage of the...
Making experiment results FAIR is a known challenge. To cope with this task, we develop a system that provides an easy way to make data produced by specialized devices (such as cryo-em microscopes) available to the scientific community. We focused on making the system as easy as possible for data producers and also for users who use the datasets in their scientific computations. Our solution...
Federated Identities are the basis on which users are identified on scientific infrastructures. Modern Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructures (AAIs) make use of Federated Identities to provide services to users based on the identity provided by their home-organisation and their membership in the community, expressed by Virtual Organisation Membership.
We present a solution to use...
With present computational capabilities and data volumes entering the Exascale Era, digital twins of the Earth system will be able to mimic the different system components (atmosphere, ocean, land, lithosphere) with unrivaled precision, providing analyses, forecasts, and what if scenarios for natural hazards and resources from their genesis phases and across their temporal and spatial scales.
interTwin co-designs and implements the prototype of an interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine (DTE), an open source platform that provides generic and tailored software components for modelling and simulation to integrate application-specific Digital Twins (DTs). Its specifications and implementation are based on a co-designed conceptual model - the DTE blueprint architecture - guided by the...
Agriculture is currently undergoing a rapid digital transformation from mechanization to automation and the use of artificial intelligence or online decision support systems (e.g. in fertilization, integrated pest management). Agriculture 4.0 technologies are currently being introduced - smart farms based on a very high degree of automation and robotization. The concept of Agriculture 4.0 is...
Within the context of EOSC-Synergy project, which aims at expanding the capacity of the European Open Science Cloud in terms of digital infrastructures as well as promoting software and data quality, FAIR EVA (Evaluator, Validator & Advisor) has been developed. It is oriented to be scalable and customizable to adapt to different repository or data systems. This tool connects to the data...
The design and execution of AI applications on Edge-Cloud infrastructures require a set of programming tools to seamlessly design and partition the models and a runtime that properly assigns the different components on the available nodes, also distributing the data.
The design abstractions allow to provide high-level annotations to specify QoS constraints and code dependencies and to...
Coastline monitoring is a significantly demanded task with substantial costs and an inherent need for computational power to process the imagery data. Therefore, LNEC has developed a new service to work with water indexes to determine water extensions in the areas of study.
Water mOnitoRing SentInel Cloud platform (WORSICA) is a new service that detects the coastline, coastal inundation...
The Dynamic DNS service at IISAS provides a unified, federation-wide Dynamic DNS support for virtual machines in EGI Cloud infrastructure. Users can register their chosen meaningful and memorable DNS host names in given domains (e.g. my-server.vo.fedcloud.eu) and assign to public IPs of their servers.
The main features of Dynamic DNS service are as folllows:
- Simple usage: Users...
Applications in EGI Infrastructure may need different secrets (credentials, tokens, passwords, etc.) during deployments and operations. The secrets are often stored as clear texts in configuration files or code repositories that expose security risks. Furthermore, the secrets stored in files are static and difficult to change/rotate. The secret management service for EGI Infrastructure is...
The FedCloud client is a high-level Python package for a command-line client designed for interaction with the OpenStack services in the EGI infrastructure. The client can access various EGI services and can perform many tasks for users including managing access tokens, listing services, and mainly execute commands on OpenStack sites in EGI infrastructure.
The most notable features of...
Mildew is a highly destructive disease of grapevines, it appears in all grape-growing areas of the world where there is spring and summer rainfall at temperatures above 10ºC and highly affects the production.
GRAPEVINE (hiGh peRformAnce comPuting sErvices for preVentIon and coNtrol of pEsts in fruit crops) project has the objective to improve the current processes to detect in advance the...
Serverless is an application development paradigm that uses Cloud-based managed services for automated resource allocation. Functions as a Service (FaaS) is a computing model that executes functions in response to events in the infrastructure to perform highly elastic computations. These are being adopted for scientific computations, to hide the operational procedures of resource allocations...
As the complexity of cloud infrastructures increases, better mechanisms for
easy maintenance and deployment are needed.
Containers offer great potential in this area, promising to simplify deployment and maintenance tasks.
Considering the OpenStack ecosystem, which is the most
widely used cloud solution in EGI/fedcloud, there are several projects focused
in a modular deployment of...
