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Call for expression of interest for the eInfrastructure Proposers Day on 19/01/2017

Stephanie MATT

6 December 2016 - updated 4 years ago
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An eInfrastructure Proposers' Day will take place in Amsterdam on the 19th of January 2017 from 09:00 to 18:00. Should you wish to participate to the event, please send us an email to CNECT-RI-EVENTS@ec.europa.eu. The deadline for registration is Friday 13th of January 2017.

The objective of the event is to facilitate the collaboration and integration of major e-infrastructure projects while supporting new potential beneficiaries to cooperate with larger initiatives and become service providers in the context of the upcoming EINFRA 12 projects. The agenda offers a combination of presentations and interactive sessions that will allow participants to address important horizontal issues.

We are hereby launching a call for expression of interest to identify the consortia that would be willing to present their proposal concept during the event. In their presentations, interested organisations should address the following points:

Current service offering of consortium members
Target service offering at the end of the project
Sketch of the integration approach
Involvement of user communities
Gaps that could be filled by new partners

Please reply by posting a comment under this discussion.

In addition, we are asking you to suggest topics for the afternoon interactive discussion sessions which aim to clarify important issues that proposers might have to address when preparing their projects. An indicative list of topics has been compiled and we ask you to propose additional ones according to your needs and interests by posting a comment under this link.

Participants will be asked to fill in a questionnaire after the event.

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Tony Ross-Hellauer,

09/01/2017 11:12

Presenter: Natalia Manola

Abstract: OpenAIRE2020, the latest project phase of the OpenAIRE initiative, ends in mid-2018. Yet OpenAIRE will live on as a sustainable legal entity (to be founded in 2017) and continue to shape the conversation on Open Science implementation in Europe and beyond. The OpenAIRE consortium intends to submit a proposal to part B of the EINFRA-12-2017 call (“Access and preservation platforms for scientific information”).

This presentation will briefly present OpenAIRE's current services and achievements since its beginning in 2009, and lay out our future priorities for Open Science, including: continued expansion of services from Open Access to Open Science and from Publications to all research artefacts; services for research data management at all levels from local to global; Open Science monitoring and research analytics; engaging researchers and research infrastructures with personalisable services. The OpenAIRE consortium is extraordinarily diverse, currently encompassing 50 partners (libraries, data centres, and IT, legal and science domain experts) from across Europe. In this discussion we will provide a sketch of the integration approach with other e-Infrastructures towards the vision of the EOSC, our approach to involve user communities, where these may come from research infrastructures or smaller research communities, and our engagement plans for new ideas and innovative services that involve both the public and the private sector.

Tiziana Ferrari,

23/12/2016 23:46

EGI, EUDAT and INDIGO-DataCloud are joining forces to address the current fragmentation of the data and computing e-Infrastructure landscape and are looking for private and public partners developing and/or providing thematic services that support open science research workflows. Thematic services are expected to serve the needs of specific science domains and/or of multidisciplinary research.

These services will be technically and operationally integrated with generic compute, storage, data management and security, to provide a richer set of digital capabilities to the European and international research collaborations. Service management, training and technical support will be also in scope in the project.

Selected partners will be invited to join an EGI-EUDAT-INDIGO led consortium preparing a proposal to be submitted as part of H2020 e-Infra-12-2017 topic, Data & Distributed Computing e-Infrastructures for Open Science, subtopic a) Secure and agile data and distributed computing e-infrastructures.

The project will offer researchers from all disciplines seamless, open access to the advanced digital capabilities, resources and expertise they need to collaborate and to carry out data- and computing-intensive science. Secure and trustworthy, the project engages researchers in managing and preserving resources for everyone’s benefit, leveraging two decades of public and private investment in e- infrastructures for the benefit of scientific research and innovation. The project integrates, procures, operates, delivers and supports a catalogue of services provided through a partnership of public and commercial organizations and initiatives of pan-European and international relevance. The project is an open, service-driven endeavor, inclusive of all stakeholders, and it will link users to the production services of the European Open Science Cloud initiative.

For more information about the EGI, EUDAT and INDIGO-DataCloud service catalogues see:
Links to catalogues:
- EGI https://www.egi.eu/services/
- EUDAT https://eudat.eu/services-support
- INDIGO-DataCloud https://www.indigo-datacloud.eu/service-component

Partners who are interested in submitted their expression of interest are invited to download and read the related documentation available at:

https://b2drop.eudat.eu/s/v6sPmWGDjVqx9qz

The documentation provides information about requirements and selection criteria. A template is provided to submit your input.

Expressions of interest need to be submitted to
editorial-board@mailman.egi.eu
by January 27 2017, 24:00 CET

For more information please do not hesitate to contact us:

Tiziana Ferrari, EGI Technical Director, tiziana.ferrari@egi.eu
Damien Lecarpentier, EUDAT2020 Project Director, damien.lecarpentier@csc.fi
Davide Salomoni, INDIGO-DataCloud Project Coordinator, davide.salomoni@cnaf.infn.it

Juan Bicarregui,

16/12/2016 12:18

(I am posting this expression of interest from STFC on behalf of David Corney, Director of Scientific Computing, STFC – Juan.)

Dear all,

Thank you to Augusto for organising this event. I look forward to a very productive day.

To be clear from the start, this is not a statement representing a consortium, but from STFC alone.

As coordinators of the EOSCpilot project (INFRADEV-4) we are not looking to lead a bid to EINFRA-12 but we thought it would promote open discussion if we provided a short description of what STFC can offer to any consortia that are bidding into this line.

We hope that this is helpful and that other organisations might follow this initiative so that we can have a full and open discussion on the 19th January.

Current Activities and Service Offerings

STFC are involved in many consortia in H2020. Some current projects of relevance to this call are:

• EOSCpilot (INFRADEV-4-2016) (Coordinator)
• EGI-ENGAGE (EINFRA-1-2014)
• EUDAT2020 (EINFRA-1-2014)
• INDIGO-DataCloud (EINFRA-1-2014)
• AARC (EINFRA-7-2014)
• AARC2 (EINFRA-22-2016)
• RDA Europe 3 (EINFRA-3-2014)
• Westlife (EINFRA-9-2015) (Coordinator)
• ESiWACE (EINFRA-5-2015)
• E-CAM (EINFRA-5-2015)
• PRACE-4IP (EINFRA-4-2014) (through University of Edinburgh)
• PRACE-5IP (EINFRA-11-2016) (through University of Edinburgh)
• NFFA-Europe (INFRAIA-1-2014-2015)
• SeaDataCloud (INFRAIA-01-2016-2017)
• STR-ESFRI (INFRASUPP-5-2014) (Coordinator)
• AENEAS (INFRASUPP-03-2016)
• VINEYARD (ICT-04-2015)
• mF2C (ICT-06-2016)
• HNSciCloud (ICT-08-2015)
• SAGE (FETHPC-1-2014)

In these projects, and directly to our communities, we are currently operate the following services:

• UK Tier1 - a large-scale high throughput computing facility for UK particle physics experiments. (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/infrastructure/the-uk-tier-1-centre/).

• JASMIN - a Petascale storage and cloud computing for big data challenges in environmental science (http://www.jasmin.ac.uk/).

• ICAT – a metadata catalogue( https://icatproject.org/) for Data from the UK national Facilites (links to ISIS and Diamond ICATs?) with pointers to actual data through DOIs (http://search.datacite.org/data-centers/bl.stfc).

• GOCDB - a central registry to record information about the topology of an e-Infrastructure (https://github.com/GOCDB).

• APEL - an accounting tool that collects accounting data from sites participating in e-infrastructures (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/APEL). APEL is the accounting repository for worldwide WLCG & EGI VOs.

• EMERALD - a Nvidia GPU-accelerated cluster run for the Science and Engineering South Consortium of universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton, King’s College London, UCL and Imperial College. http://www.ses.ac.uk/high-performance-computing/emerald/

• Collaborative Computational Projects - bring together leading UK expertise in key fields of computational research to tackle large-scale scientific software development, maintenance and distribution (http://www.ccp.ac.uk/about.html)

• ePubs – an open archive of over 40,000 records of STFC’s research publications (https://epubs.stfc.ac.uk/index)

Involvement of User Communities

We offer these services to the following communities:

• Particle Physics
• Astronomy
• Environmental Sciences
• Earth Observation
• Chemistry and Materials sciences
• Biological sciences

We also offer collaborative research, innovation and development services that accelerate the application of high performance computing, big data analytics and cognitive computing technologies to the business sector through the Hartree Centre (http://www.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/hartree/)

Target Service Offering and Integration Approach
In the coming years we would like to develop them within the EOSC as follows:

• Service Catalogue – building on GOCDB we propose to make a significant contribution to the EOSC service catalogue referred to the HLEG report.

• Rules of Engagement - the governance model for EOSC will be developed the EOSCpilot project. We propose to contribute to the implementation of this in the services in EINFRA-12

• Federating the gems – building on our existing production infrastructure and services to our communities, we propose to offer some core services in the EOSC. For example, Scalable data storage (including object storage), Policy driven preservation, resource accounting, Software distribution services such as CernVM-FS, and APIs for data service interoperation.
• AAA and Security– building on AARC and APEL we propose to contribute to definition of AAA in the EOSC, incident response, etc.

• Data and Metadata Services - building on ICAT to provide linking of different types of digital objects.

We propose to integrate these services into the EOSC through disciplinary, national and international Research Infrastructures, where STFC is active at many levels, as identified in the use cases in the EOSCpilot project.

Gaps that could be filled by others

We are looking to collaborate with others to achieve these aims.

Best wishes to all,

David Corney, Director Scientific Computing, STFC.

Augusto Burgueñ...,

15/12/2016 09:02

In order to evaluate how effectively this event will have supported your potential participation in the EINFRA-12-2017 call, we have prepared a questionnaire that we expect all participants to fill in.

It would be good if you could have a look to it before attending the event.

It may give you a better idea about the event. It is here: https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/questionnaire-einfrastructure-proposers-day-19012017

I hope to see you all there!
Augusto.

Iyad Alshabani,

13/12/2016 15:26

Hello,
I'm looking forward to submit expertise in order to join a consortium for the e-infrastructure call, is it the right place?
Best regards

Iyad Alshabani
R&D Projects Manager
ActiveEon

Stephanie MATT,

14/12/2016 11:39

Dear Iyad,

Should you wish to participate to the eInfrastructure Proposers Day 2017 and possibly meet consortia, please send an email to to CNECT-RI-EVENTS@ec.europa.eu.

I also invite you to post your idea here addressing the following points:

Thank you.

Stéphanie

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