28–30 Oct 2024
Porto
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Session

IBERGRID

28 Oct 2024, 10:30
Centro de Investigação Médica (CIM-FMUP)

Centro de Investigação Médica (CIM-FMUP)

Conveners

IBERGRID: Digital Twins for GEOphysical extremes

  • Isabel Campos (CSIC)

IBERGRID: Special Topics

  • Jorge Gomes (LIP)

IBERGRID: Contributions

  • Mário David (LIP)

IBERGRID: Special Topics

  • Ignacio Blanquer Espert (Universitat Politècnica de València)

IBERGRID: Contributions

  • João Pina (LIP)

IBERGRID: Contributions

  • Javier Cacheiro (CESGA)

IBERGRID: Contributions

  • Germán Moltó (Universitat Politècnica de València)

IBERGRID: Special Topics

  • Davide Salomoni (Fondazione ICSC)

IBERGRID: Datacenters and Infrastructures

  • Zacarias Benta (LIP - Minho)

IBERGRID: Closing

  • There are no conveners in this block

IBERGRID: Conference Opening

  • There are no conveners in this block

Presentation materials

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  1. Arnau Folch (Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC))
    28/10/2024, 10:30
    Design and implementation of Digital Twins

    The DT-GEO project (2022-2025), funded under the Horizon Europe topic call INFRA-2021-TECH-01-01, is implementing an interdisciplinary digital twin for modelling and simulating geophysical extremes at the service of research infrastructures and related communities. The digital twin consists of interrelated Digital Twin Components (DTCs) dealing with geohazards from earthquakes to volcanoes to...

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  2. Daniele Lezzi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Dr Raul Sirvent (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
    28/10/2024, 11:00
    Design and implementation of Digital Twins

    The today's computational capabilities and the availability of large data volumes is allowing to develop Digital Twins able to provide unrivaled precision. Geophysics is one field that benefits from the ability to simulate the evolution of multi-physics natural system across a wide spatio-temporal scale range. This is also possible thanks to the access to HPC systems and programming frameworks...

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  3. Iván Palomo Llavona (IFCA)
    28/10/2024, 11:30
    Quality of software, services and data

    FAIRness is an important quality of all kinds of data and metadata with each of the principles FAIR standing for the different criteria: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusabilty.

    FAIR-EVA is a tool that reports the FAIRrness level of digital objects from different repositories or data portals implemented via different plugins, allowing the user to improve the maturity...

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  4. Jorge Gomes (LIP), Mário David (LIP)
    28/10/2024, 11:45
    Design and implementation of Digital Twins

    DT-GEO aims to provide digital twins of the earth system to mimic different system components and provide analysis, forecasts and what-if scenarios for geophysical extremes, enabling a deeper insight into these events. Addressing the complexity of mimicking the earth system, as well as the multitude of software codes required to realise the DT-GEO vision, demands a modular architecture, where...

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  5. Pablo Orviz Fernández (IFCA-CSIC)
    28/10/2024, 12:00
    Design and implementation of Digital Twins

    The data management team in the DT-GEO project is following a novel approach for the characterization of the Digital Twins for geophysical extremes being developed in the project. The approach relies on the use of rich metadata to describe the components of Digital Twins (DTCs): (i) the digital assets (DAs) --namely datasets, software-services, workflows and steps within those workflows--,...

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  6. Alejandro González del Pino (UMA)
    28/10/2024, 12:15
    Design and implementation of Digital Twins
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    Portugal and Spain share a common history when suffering from natural hazards. In 1755, we experienced the largest natural hazard ever happened in Europe in historical times. This event included an earthquake and the second most deadly tsunami in our records, just behind the Sumatra catastrophe in 2004. DT-GEO project (A Digital Twin for GEOphysical extremes) aims at analysing and forecasting...

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  7. Isabel Campos (CSIC)
    28/10/2024, 14:30
    Cooperation between Iberian research communities

    We will make a summary of the infrastructure status and the summary of research and development activities taking place under the umbrella of IBERGRID.

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  8. Francisco Santos (FCT), João Ferreira (FCT-FCCN)
    28/10/2024, 15:00
  9. Andrea Manzi (EGI Foundation)
    28/10/2024, 15:25
    Cooperation between Iberian research communities

    This presentation will provide a summary and details about the history of IBERGID in the EGI Federation, showing the complex provider, user and innovator relationships that exist between Spain, Portugal and the rest of EGI. The talk aims to socialise and promote the benefits and achievements of the IBERGRID - EGI partnership.

    Spain and Portugal have been significant contributors to the EGI...

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  10. Miguel Viana (LIP Minho)
    28/10/2024, 15:40
    Developments oriented to foster the Compute Continuum
    Lightning Talk (8' + 2' for questions)

    Kubernetes (K8s) is the industry-leading container orchestration platform, offering organizations enhanced reliability, availability, and resilience for its services compared to monolithic architectures. Also, by adopting a declarative paradigm, K8s simplifies the management of multiple complex environments. When integrated with tools such as ArgoCD and Gitlab CI pipelines, K8s also makes it...

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  11. Ignacio Blanquer Espert (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    28/10/2024, 16:30
    Enabling and fostering Open Science adoption
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    The third National Tripartite Event (NTE) organised by Spain took place on 24 September 2024. The event covered three blocks: the EOSC governance, new INFRAEOSC projects with Spanish partners, and updates on the EOSC Federation.

    The event covered the last updates on the EOSC governance, including the new task forces, the consultation processes on the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda...

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  12. Ignacio Blanquer Espert (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    28/10/2024, 16:50
    Research applications in advanced Digital Infrastructures
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    In the context of the CHAIMELEON project (https://chaimeleon.eu/) we have developed a secure processing environment to manage medical imaging data and their associated clinical data enabling researchers to share, publish, process and trace datasets in virtual environments, powered by intensive computing resources.

    The environment is built on top of a Kubernetes cluster and leverages native...

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  13. Ms Cecilia Grela Llerena (CESGA), Mr Pablo Prieto Rúa (CESGA), Dr Javier Cacheiro López (CESGA)
    28/10/2024, 17:10
    Development of innovative software and services

    Over the last two years, the Galician Marine Sciences Program (CCMM) has developed a Data Lake to support the collection and analysis of data related to Galicia’s marine ecosystem. The Data Lake architecture facilitates processing both structured and unstructured data, already integrating diverse datasets such as ocean currents velocity maps, species distribution data, upwelling indices,...

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  14. Germán Moltó (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    28/10/2024, 17:30
    Development of innovative software and services
    Lightning Talk (8' + 2' for questions)

    OSCAR is an open-source framework built on Kubernetes (K8s) for event-driven data processing of serverless applications packaged as Docker containers. The execution of these applications can be triggered both by detecting events from object-storage systems, such as MinIO or dCache (asynchronous calls) or by directly invoking them (synchronous calls). OSCAR is being used in several research...

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  15. Dante Domizzi Sanchez Gallegos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Dr Jose Luis Gonzalez-Compean (Cinvestav Tamaulipas)
    28/10/2024, 17:50
    Developments oriented to foster the Compute Continuum
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    Recently, the computing continuum has emerged as an extension of existing cloud services. Existing cloud services enable users to access almost unlimited resources for the processing, storage, and sharing of data. Nevertheless, the increasing volume of data, as well as their constant production, have motivated the distribution of both data and computation through existing computational nodes....

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  16. Dr Lilit Axner (EuroHPC JU)
    29/10/2024, 09:00
    Research applications in advanced Digital Infrastructures

    The presentation will discuss the point of view and opportunities offered by the EuroHPC JU to support the computing needs of SMEs and large industries. This will be a remote presentation.

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  17. Manuel Aurelio Rodríguez López (HPCNOW)
    29/10/2024, 09:20
    R&D for computing services, networking, and data-driven science

    HPCNow! provides its customers with solutions and technologies for dealing with the most complex problems in High Performance Computing (HPC). Installing and managing a HPC cluster and deploying user applications involves a wide range of software packages. A cluster manager provides a unified way to install all the nodes, manage them, and synchronize configurations across the entire cluster. A...

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  18. Xavier Salazar Forn (EGI Foundation)
    29/10/2024, 09:40
    Developments oriented to foster the Compute Continuum

    The amount of data gathered, shared, and processed in frontier research is set to increase steeply in the coming decade, leading to unprecedented data processing, simulation, and analysis needs. In particular, high-energy physics and radio astronomy are gearing up for groundbreaking instruments, necessitating infrastructures many times larger than current capabilities. In this context, the...

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  19. Dr Davide Salomoni (ICSC)
    29/10/2024, 10:00

    Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (NRRP), Italy has funded the constitution of an unprecedented national infrastructure targeting digital resources and services for science and industry. Specifically, the National Center on HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (“ICSC”) is an initiative funded with €320M to evolve existing public state-of-the-art network, data, and compute...

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  20. Tatiana F. Vieira (LAQV@REQUIMTE)
    29/10/2024, 11:00
    R&D for computing services, networking, and data-driven science
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    With the increase in microbial resistance to therapeutics, there is a higher demand for finding new pathways or molecular targets to treat bacterial infections. The Pseudomonas quinolone system (PQS) is a part of the quorum sensing (QS) communication system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which controls the production of biofilms and several other virulence factors. Inhibiting quorum sensing does...

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  21. Fábio G. Martins (LAQV/REQUIMTE,BioSIM Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, Porto, Portugal)
    29/10/2024, 11:20
    Research applications in advanced Digital Infrastructures

    The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has led to a global health crisis, triggering an urgent need for effective therapeutic interventions to mitigate its impact. The virus primarily infects human cells by binding its spike protein (S-RDB) to the ACE2 receptor, making this interaction a key target for drug discovery. In response, this study aimed to identify novel compounds...

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  22. Khadijeh Alibabaei (KIT)
    29/10/2024, 11:40
    Development of innovative software and services
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    The AI4EOSC and iMagine projects are closely related initiatives under the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), both designed to support research communities in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI).
    The AI4EOSC project is dedicated to provide researchers with easy access to a comprehensive range of AI development services and tools. It focuses on enabling the development and deployment of...

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  23. Germán Moltó (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    29/10/2024, 12:00
    Developments oriented to foster the Compute Continuum
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    AI models require extensive computing power to perform scalable inferences on distributed computing platforms to cope with increased workloads. This contribution summarises the work done in the AI4EOSC and iMagine projects to support AI model inference execution with OSCAR and AI4Compose. AI4EOSC delivers and enhanced set of services to create and manage the lifecycle of AI models (develop,...

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  24. Giang Nguyen (FIIT STU + IISAS)
    29/10/2024, 12:20
    R&D for computing services, networking, and data-driven science
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    Machine Learning (ML) is one of the most widely used technologies in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As ML applications become increasingly ubiquitous, concerns about data privacy and security have also grown. The presentation is about applied ML landscape concerning the evolution of ML/DL from various aspects including data quality, data privacy awareness and federated learning. It...

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  25. Zacarias Benta (LIP - Minho)
    29/10/2024, 12:40
    Enabling and fostering Open Science adoption
    Lightning Talk (8' + 2' for questions)

    Dataverse is an open source data repository solution being
    increasingly adopted 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. In the context of
    the development of a pilot catchall data repository for the
    Portuguese research community we...

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  26. Andrea Manzi (EGI Foundation)
    29/10/2024, 14:00
    Design and implementation of Digital Twins
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    The Horizon Europe interTwin project is developing a highly generic yet powerful Digital Twin Engine (DTE) to support interdisciplinary Digital Twins (DT). Comprising thirty-one high-profile scientific partner institutions, the project brings together infrastructure providers, technology providers, and DT use cases from Climate Research and Environmental Monitoring, High Energy and...

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  27. Estíbaliz Parcero (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    29/10/2024, 14:20
    Development of innovative software and services
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    InterTwin co-designs and implements a prototype of an interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine (DTE) - an open source platform based on open standards that offers the capability to integrate with application-specific Digital Twins (DTs).

    While there are many components that are part of the DTE, this contribution focuses on OSCAR and DCNiOS and how they are being used in InterTwin to support...

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  28. Dijana Vrbanec (DESY)
    29/10/2024, 14:40
    Development, implementation and operation of Data Lakes
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    The Horizon Europe interTwin project is developing a highly generic Digital Twin Engine (DTE) to support interdisciplinary Digital Twins(DT). The project brings together infrastructure providers, technology providers and DT use cases from High Energy and AstroParticle Physics, Radio Astronomy, Climate Research and Environmental Monitoring. This group of experts enables the co-design of both...

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  29. Pablo Orviz Fernández (IFCA-CSIC)
    29/10/2024, 15:00
    Quality of software, services and data
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    In this presentation we will outline the role of the SQAaaS platform as the architectural building block for quality assurance (QA) within two ongoing EC-funded projects that are prototyping Digital Twins in diverse scientific domains: DT-GEO and Intertwin.

    The individual requirements of each project have shaped the SQAaaS platform to be a flexible engine that is able to evaluate both the...

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  30. João Pina (LIP)
    29/10/2024, 15:20
    Development of innovative software and services

    This presentation provides an overview of the architecture and implementation of the new artefacts 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...

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  31. Tim Wetzel (DESY IT (Research and Innovation in Scientific Computing))
    29/10/2024, 16:10
    Enabling and fostering Open Science adoption
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    DESY, one of Europe's leading synchrotron facilities, is active in various scientific fields, including High Energy and Astro particle Physics, Dark matter research, Physics with Photons, and Structural Biology. These fields generate large amounts of data, which are managed according to specific policies that respect restrictions on ownership, licenses, and embargo periods. Currently there is...

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  32. Mr Gaurav Ray (IFCA-CSIC)
    29/10/2024, 16:30
    Development, implementation and operation of Data Lakes
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    In the current era of Big Data data management practices are an increasingly important consideration when doing scientific research. The Scientific community's aspiration for FAIR data depends on good data management practices and policies, and interTwin's DataLake has been designed with these goals in mind. I will present the status of an application of the DataLake to the particular field of...

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  33. Goncalo Jesus (LNEC)
    29/10/2024, 16:50
    Research applications in advanced Digital Infrastructures
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    Effective water resources management depends on accurate river flow forecasts, which affect hydroelectric power generation, flood control, and agriculture, among other sectors. Achieving consistent projections is challenging, though, because the complex characteristics defining the river flow—which are influenced by factors including precipitation, reservoir management, and changes in land...

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  34. Robert Nica (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    29/10/2024, 17:10
    R&D for computing services, networking, and data-driven science
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    Workflow languages have become indispensable for defining reproducible and scalable data analysis pipelines across various scientific domains, including bioinformatics, medical imaging, astronomy, high-energy physics, and machine learning. In recent years, languages such as the Common Workflow Language (CWL), Workflow Description Language (WDL), and Nextflow have gained significant traction...

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  35. Fermín Serrano Sanz (Fundación Ibercivis)
    29/10/2024, 17:30
    Cooperation between Iberian research communities
    Lightning Talk (8' + 2' for questions)

    Citizen Science (CS) is evolving rapidly, driven by digital technologies that make data collection and public participation more accessible. However, these technologies also introduce challenges such as complexity and fragmentation. Many projects addressing similar research questions use inconsistent methodologies, making it difficult to compare and integrate results. Fragmentation is worsened...

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  36. Sergio F. Sousa (LAQV@REQUIMTE, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto)
    30/10/2024, 09:30
    Research applications in advanced Digital Infrastructures
    Special Topic Presentation (25' + 5' for questions)

    Biomolecular simulations have long been an important part of the drug discovery and development process, with techniques such as docking, virtual screening, molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics being routinely used in the study of the interaction and selection of small molecular drugs with their target proteins or enzymes.
    More recently, the application of these techniques in aptamer...

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  37. Germán Moltó (Universitat Politècnica de València)
    30/10/2024, 10:00
    Developments oriented to foster the Compute Continuum
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    The Infrastructure Manager (IM) is an open-source production-ready (TRL 8) service used for the dynamic deployment of customized virtual infrastructures across multiple Cloud back-ends. It has evolved in the last decade through several European projects to support the needs of multiple scientific communities. It features a CLI, a REST API and a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), called...

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  38. Mário David (LIP)
    30/10/2024, 10:20
    Developments oriented to foster the Compute Continuum
    Presentation (15' + 5' for questions)

    A new INCD data centre has recently become operational located at UTAD (Universidade Trás os Montes e Alto Douro in Vila Real). It offers Cloud and HPC computing, as well as Data management services and repositories.
    In this work we describe the architecture, deployment and configuration of the cloud IaaS infrastructure based on Openstack. We describe as well, the Ceph storage architecture...

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  39. Samuel Bernardo (LIP)
    30/10/2024, 10:40
    R&D for computing services, networking, and data-driven science
    Lightning Talk (8' + 2' for questions)

    The demand for computing resources is growing everyday making the capability of expanding capacity to address user needs increasingly important. For research organisations, the Open Clouds for Research Environment (OCRE) provides an opportunity to exploit the extension of existing computing and platform resources to commercial providers under better conditions. This reality brings a challenge...

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  40. Tim Wetzel (DESY IT (Research and Innovation in Scientific Computing))
    30/10/2024, 11:30
  41. Viet Tran (Institute of Informatics SAS Slovakia)
    30/10/2024, 11:45
  42. Andrea Cierici (INFN)
    30/10/2024, 12:00

    The new INFN datacenter.

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  43. João Machado (INCD)
    30/10/2024, 12:15
    Datacenter and digital infrastructures development and status reporting
    Lightning Talk (8' + 2' for questions)

    In this presentation we will discuss our experience of migrating the
    INCD Helpdesk ticketing system from Request Tracker (RT) to Zammad. We
    will highlight the most relevant INCD requirements and Zammad features
    that led to the choice of this platform. We will also describe the
    required steps that were taken during the migration process, including
    data extraction from RT and the import...

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  44. Carlos Fernandez Sanchez (CESGA), Javier Cacheiro (CESGA)
    30/10/2024, 12:30
  45. Jorge Gomes (LIP)
    30/10/2024, 12:45
    Datacenter and digital infrastructures development and status reporting
    Presentation (13' + 2' for questions)

    INCD (www.incd.pt) provides computing and data services to the Portuguese scientific and academic community for research and innovation in all domains. The infrastructure is oriented to provide scientific computing and data oriented services, supporting researchers and their participation in national and international projects.

    INCD operates an integrated infrastructure with services being...

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  46. João Ferreira (FCT-FCCN)
    Datacenter and digital infrastructures development and status reporting
    Presentation (13' + 2' for questions)

    In this presentation we will share the experience of FCT-FCCN in setting up and managing datacenters.

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