Federated Cloud Communities
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This page provides detailed information about the user communities and use cases who are using/integrating the EGI Federated Cloud services.
Current FedCloud Users and Communities
This table provides a summary of the communities that are already collaborating with the EGI Federated Cloud offering use cases, requirements and valuable feedback.
Project or Application | Description | Use Cases | Further information | Contacts |
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Cranfield University | The principal investigator, Mark Stillwell, researches and teaches on issues in distributed computing, particularly cloud and grid computing. He would like to evaluate the EGI Federated Cloud and use it to organise hands-on training for students.
Futhermore, he would like to exploit the EGI Federated Cloud capabilities to study resource allocation and scheduling algorithms for federated cloud systems. |
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FedCloudCranfield |
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DCH-RP | DCH-RP Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation is a coordination action supported by EC FP7 e-Infrastructures Programme, launched to look at best practice for preservation standards in use. The project aim to harmonize data storage and preservation policies in the digital cultural heritage sector; to progress a dialogue and integration among institutions, e-Infrastructures, research and private organisations; to identy models for the governance, maintenance and sustainability of the integrated infrastructure for digital preservation of cultural content. The DCH-RP project is willing to run data preservation services on the EGI Federated Cloud. |
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FedCloudDCHRP |
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DIRAC interware for eScience communities | The DIRAC interware project provides a framework for building ready to use distributed computing systems. It has been proven to be a useful tool for large international scientific collaborations integrating in a single system, their computing activities and distributed computing resources: Grids, Clouds and HTC clusters. In the case of Cloud resources, DIRAC is currently integrated with Amazon EC2, OpenNebula, OpenStack and CloudStack. The work integrates the resources provided by the multiple private clouds of the EGI Federated Cloud and additional WLCG resources, providing high-level scientific services on top of them by using the DIRAC framework. |
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FedCloudDIRAC |
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DRHIM project | Forecasting severe storms and floods is a key topic in HMR. Storms do not respect country boundaries so a pan-European approach to data access and modeling is necessary. The analysis carried out within the FLASH project estimated over 29 billion euros the material damages produced by floods in the Mediterranean region during the 1990-2006 period. The total number of casualties has been estimated over 4,500,
concentrating in the Mediterranean African countries especially. These data challenge our current scientific understanding and call for focused and joint Hydro-Meteorological and ICT research to:
These are the main DRHIM objectives. |
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FedCloudDRIHM |
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ELIXIR | The goal of ELIXIR is to orchestrate the collection, quality control and archiving of large amounts of biological data produced by life science experiments. Some of these datasets are highly specialised and would previously only have been available to researchers within the country in which they were generated. |
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FedCloudELIXIR |
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ENVRI | The ENVRI target is on developing common capabilities including software and services of the environmental and e-infrastructure communities. While the ENVRI infrastructures are very diverse, they face common challenges including data capture from distributed sensors, metadata standardization, management of high volume data, workflow execution and data visualization. The common standards, deployable services and tools developed will be adopted by each infrastructure as it progresses through its construction phase. In the context of the ENVRI project, the EGI Federated Cloud will host data access and dissemination service on the Federated Cloud Storage as a Service and provide computing resources to ENVRI processing services via the EGI Federated Cloud IaaS service. The objective is to offer to the ENVRI partners a reliable, flexible and easy to use system to perform data discovery and dissemination and to support computing services. |
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EGI_ENVRI |
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European Space Agency | In the context of the Helix Nebula initiative, the European Space Agency organized a Proof of Concept using EGI Federated Cloud resources. The objective is to prove the interoperability between commercial (Helix Nebula) and academic (EGI Federated Cloud) cloud providers and to prove the possibility to provide processing services to scientists using the Federated Cloud IaaS system. ESA target is volcano and earthquake monitoring in the context of the SuperSites Exploitation Platform project. |
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FedCloudESAPoC |
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FTK | FTK – Research Institute for Telecommunication and Cooperation – has been a competent partner for the development and realisation of innovative strategies in private economy and public administration since 1991. Interdisciplinary teams create and develop strategies in order to guarantee an efficient implementation of latest ICT systems, and beyond.
FTK consists of a team with broad and profound expertise in various fields such as consulting, research, information, innovation- and project management, event organisation and web development. The institute is located at the TechnologiePark Dortmund. FTK would like to evaluate the EGI Federated Cloud capabilities. |
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FedCloudFTK |
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INERTIA | INERTIA project addresses the "structural inertia" of existing Distribution Grids by introducing more active elements combined with the necessary control and distributed coordination mechanisms. To this end INERTIA will adopt the Internet of Things/Services principles to the Distribution Grid Control Operations. |
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FedCloudINERTIA |
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Jena Adaptable Modelling System (JAMS) | JAMS is an java-based, open-source software platform that has been especially designed to address the demands of a process-based hydrological model development and various aspects of model application (https://appdb.egi.eu/store/software/jams).
JAMS is a framework to build up complex models out of simple components. Several hydrological models were implemented within JAMS (e.g. J2000, J2000g). Usually those models are applied to simulate hydrological dynamics in catchments with a size of 1km² to 100,000 km² in a temporal time step of hours to months. Typically, the computing time of a single model run is in the range from minutes to hours (on a single workstation). However, those models have many parameters, which must be estimated indirectly during a calibration process. For model calibration an evolutionary optimization algorithms was adopted, which evaulate the model several thousand times. Therefore this calibration process takes days to weeks on a single workstation. To speed up this process, we implemented a thread-based parallelization in JAMS. This thread-based parallelization is used for example to evaluated several parameter combinations in parallel during optimization. The model calibration is carried out frequently. Sometimes more than 10 times a week. |
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FedCloudJAMSPoC |
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Peachnote | Peachnote.com is a music score search engine and analysis platform. The system is the first of its kind and can be thought as an analog of Google Books Ngram Viewer and Google Books search for music scores. Peachnote provides visitors and researchers access to a massive amount of symbolic music data. |
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FedCloudPeachnote |
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Physiome project | Project of web application to compute, store and provide values of parameters of physiological models via lightweight API. The current version support model calibration. Further development will focus on storing the calibrated model parameters along with the data of real experiments and simulations and metadata of models. See slides presented at the EGI CF 2014 for more info. |
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FedCloudPhysiome |
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READemption - A RNA-Seq Analysis Pipeline | RNA-sequencing analysis of data has performed to understand different biological features and behaviour. The research team generated a workflow based on a pipeline built to satisfy many experiments using Python 3.4, third party-libraries (numpy, pysam, matplotlib) and some external tools as segemehl and R. The running time heavily depends on the size and type of data. Usually takes some hour to some day. The workflow will be published as open source tool soon. Indeed, it’s a very common approach. |
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FedCloudRNASeq |
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TRUFA - Transcriptomes User-Friendly Analysis | TRUFA (Transcriptomes User-Friendly Analysis) is a free webserver designed to help researchers in genomics to perform de novo RNA-seq analysis. TRUFA aims to be a public service targeting a broad audience, namely comparative biology, biomedicine, bioinformatics and others. Sequencing methods are becoming cheaper and thus it is foreseeable that researchers studying models as well as non-models organisms could make use of this service. Having such pipeline ready for use will allow any biologist to perform RNA-seq analysis in a user-friendly way. |
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FedCloudTRUFA |
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VERCE | Earthquake and seismology research addresses fundamental problems in understanding the Earth's internal wave sources and properties, thereby aiding society in the management of natural hazards, energy resources, environmental changes, and national security. VERCE is supporting this effort by developing a data-intensive e-science environment to enable innovative data analysis and data modelling methods that fully exploit the increasing wealth of open data generated by the observational and monitoring systems of the global seismology community. |
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FedCloudVERCE |
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WeNMR | The objective of WeNMR is to optimize and extend the use of the NMR and SAXS research infrastructures through the implementation of an e-infrastructure in order to provide the user community with a platform integrating and streamlining the computational approaches necessary for NMR and SAXS data analysis and structural modelling. |
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FedCloudWeNMR |
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WS-PGRADE | WS-PGRADE is a portal environment for the development, execution and monitoring of workflows and workflow based parameter studies on different Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI). |
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FedCloudWSPGRADE |
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Ongoing Use Cases (work in progress)
Project or Application | Description | Further information |
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BioVeL | The BioVel project provides workflows for the processing of data in major areas of biodiversity research: ecological niche modelling, ecosystem functioning, and taxonomy. The community wants to explore how critical assets such as the BioVeL Portal, and web-services like OpenModeller, BioSTIF and OpenRefine can be sustained in the EGI Federated Cloud. | |
BSIM2 | BSIM2’s mission is to boost the discovery and optimisation of new drug candidates, led by efficient computational methodologies and workflows. This startup company is exploring a set of Proof's of Concept on the EGI Federated Cloud: molecular dynamics simulations, chemoinformatics applications & workflows, and 3rd party licensed software for windows/linux are the key topics. | FedCloudBSIM2 |
Chipster | Chipster is a user-friendly analysis software for high-throughput data. It contains over 300 analysis tools for next generation sequencing (NGS), microarray, proteomics and sequence data. The goal is to deploy Chipster on the Cloud Federation. | FedCloudChipster |
Implemented Use Cases (work in progress)
Project or Application | Description | Further information |
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Catania Science Gateway Framework | The Catania Science Gateway Framework (CSGF) provides application developers with a tool to create Science Gateways. CSGF is able to manage AuthN/AuthZ and to interact with different DCIs (grid, cloud, HPC, local, etc.). The CSGF use case exploits EGI Cloud capabilities through via a SaaS service model. Furthermore, the CSGF can orchestrate the cloud services through their OCCI-compliant and rOCCI-enabled interfaces acting as infrastructure broker. | |
BNCWeb | BNCWeb is an interface to the British National Corpus, being a key reference work in English studies, linguistics and language teaching and is widely used in a wide variety of computational linguistic applications. The use case aims to offer BNCWeb services via EGI FedCloud. | FedCloudBNCweb |
European Space Agency | In the context of the Helix Nebula initiative, the European Space Agency organized a Proof of Concept using EGI Federated Cloud resources. The objective is to prove the interoperability between commercial (Helix Nebula) and academic (EGI Federated Cloud) cloud providers and to prove the possibility to provide processing services to scientists using the Federated Cloud IaaS system. ESA target is volcano and earthquake monitoring in the context of the SuperSites Exploitation Platform project. | FedCloudESAPoC |
WeNMR | The objective of WeNMR is to optimize and extend the use of the NMR and SAXS research infrastructures through the implementation of an e-infrastructure in order to provide the user community with a platform integrating and streamlining the computational approaches necessary for NMR and SAXS data analysis and structural modelling. | FedCloudWeNMR |
Peachnote | Peachnote.com is a music score search engine and analysis platform. The system is the first of its kind and can be thought as an analog of Google Books Ngram Viewer and Google Books search for music scores. Peachnote provides visitors and researchers access to a massive amount of symbolic music data. | FedCloudPeachnote |