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Introduction
This wiki page provides information about the user communities and use cases who are exploiting the EGI Federated Cloud infrastructure and its services. These use cases and communities collaborated (or collaborate in the past) with the EGI Federated Cloud to enable scientific applications, simulations or tools in virtualised environments. The evolution of the Federated Cloud infrastructure is driven by the requirements of these use cases and the needs of the broader scientific community and industry in the European Research Area.
The EGI Federated Cloud User Support (FCUS) team during the porting and integration work of the use cases into the Federated Cloud, follows a well defined process described bellow. The various phases are described as well, and will be used in the next coming tables to list the ongoing, production and closed use cases.
Status | Description |
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Pre-assessment | FCUS members identified a potential use case that can profit from the EGI Federated Cloud services |
Assessed | The use case requirements are assessed with relevant information added to a dedicated wiki page, to manage the full porting & integration process |
Preparatory | The user & FCUS team setup the environment to execute tests on the FedCloud (configuration of client environment, identify resource providers, upload vm images, ...) |
Test & Integration | Users are accessing the FedCloud through the fedcloud.egi.eu VO to execute tests while integrate their applications to the infrastructure |
Pre-production | Test & integration phases were successfully completed. Create a production Virtual Organization (VO) or join an already existing VO |
Production | Use case is being used in production. The use case completed all tests and is regularly making use of the Federated Cloud using a production level VO |
Closed | Test & integration successfully completed. Use case either does not foresee moving into production or production phase ended |
Cancelled | Test & integration did not successfully completed. User cancelled the use case. |
Production Use Cases
Note: use cases in production status phase
Community | Description | Scientific domain | VO | Sites | Further information |
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BioVeL | BioVeL Portal | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation |
biomed | PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET | |
BioVeL | OpenRefine | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation |
biomed | PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET | |
BioVeL | openModeller | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation |
biomed | CESNET | FedCloudOPENMODELLER |
BioVeL | BioSTIF | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation |
biomed | PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET | FedCloudBIOSTIF |
Peachnote | OCR analysis in music scores | peachnote.com | CESNET-MetaCloud, FZJ | FedCloudPeachnote | |
CUSM, Würzburg University | READemption: RNA-seq. analysis of data to understand different biological features and behaviour | highthroughputseq.egi.eu | GoeGrid | FedCloudRNASeq |
Use Cases under development
Note: use cases from pre-assessment to pre-production status phases
Community | Description | Registration date | Status | Further information |
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BioVeL | EDIT: portal to access/visualize Catalogue of Life taxonomy data | Assessed | ||
BSIM2 | Proof of Concept and optimization of data workflow (several use cases) | Assessed | FedCloudBSIM2 | |
CSC / ELIXIR | Chipster | 2014.08.01 | Assessed | FedCloudChipster |
HARNESS | Organise training events using FedCloud resources | 2014.10.06 | Assessed | |
HARNESS | Running Harness PaaS on the EGI FedCloud | 2014.10.06 | Assessed | |
IFCA | TRUFA | 2014.08.01 | Assessed | FedCloudTRUFA |
BILS | (being assessed) | 2014.10.31 | Pre-assessment | |
Carelliance | Carelliance is offering a managed service using Arvados platform to healthcare and bioinformatics customers in the Netherlands. They wants to run this service in the FedCloud | Pre-assessment | ||
Ciops/Terradue | Analyse datasets on VM | Pre-assessment | ||
LifeWatch | eLaboratory for Biodiversity based on VMI | Pre-assessment | ||
VERCE | Submitting VERCE Jobs through DCI-Bridge of gUse/SCI-BUS | Pre-assessment | FedCloudVERCE | |
CHAIN-REDS | WRF: weather research forecast | Pre-production | ||
CHAIN-REDS | R: language and environment for statistical computing and graphics | Pre-production | ||
CHAIN-REDS | Octave | Pre-production | ||
Data Development of a calibration pipeline for LOFAR data | 2014.10.06 | Preparatory | ||
Modelling of the kinematic of galaxies (GIPSY) | 2014.10.06 | Preparatory | ||
DCH-RP | Long term preservation in the cloud | Preparatory | ||
[http://www.physiovalues.org/ Physiovalues}: run on the FedCloud a system to support modelling of physiological systems. | Preparatory | FedCloudPhysiome | ||
RSAT | RSAT: regulatory sequence analysis tools | 2014.10.08 | Preparatory | |
VERCE | Running a web service on the FedCloud | FedCloudVERCE | ||
CERN ATLAS | Run a cluster on-demand on the cloud to absorb peaks from ATLAS grid. | Test & Integration | ||
DCH-RP | Deploy HAPPI sw in the FedCloud | Test & Integration | ||
DRHIM | Run Hydrology and Hydraulic models on the cloud | Test & Integration | FedCloudDRIHM | |
ELIXIR | Access to EGI Cloud Marketplace via EBI IdP | 2014.05.01 | Test & Integration | |
ENVRI | Data access, catalog and dissemination (EISCAT 3D) | Test & Integration | EGI_ENVRI | |
IFCA | Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Modeling using EGI FedCloud | 2014.09.25 | Test & Integration | |
IFCA | Water Quality | 2014.11.06 | Test & Integration | |
INERTIA | (several use cases) | 2014.09.01 | Test & Integration | FedCloudINERTIA |
SCI-BUS | Test/debug new releases of WS-PGRADE | Test & Integration | FedCloudWSPGRADE | |
Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud | 2014.10.15 | Test & Integration |
Closed Use Cases
Note: use cases that reached the Closed status phase
Community | Description | Outcome | Further information |
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CLARIN | BNCWeb: scalable ‘British National Corpus’ service | FedCloudBNCweb | |
Cranfield University | Exploit the FedCloud capabilities to study resource allocation and scheduling algorithms for federated cloud systems | FedCloudCranfield | |
ESA | SSEP Data processing | FedCloudESAPoC | |
Jena University | JAMS (Jena Adaptable Modelling System): run JAMS in the FedCloud | PoC was successful, but to operate it they would need a fixed SLA and a pay-per-use model, to be sure to get the required resources when needed. | FedCloudJAMSPoC |
WeNMR | Validating and improving biomolecular NMR structures | FedCloudWeNMR |
High level tools
Note: High level tools in production status phase
Community | Description | VO | Sites | Further information |
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Catania Science Gateway Framework | Exploit SaaS model | N.A. | CSGF App. Broker HowTo | |
DIRAC | VMDIRAC portal as VM scheduler with 3rd party broker (with WeNMR) | N.A. | FedCloudDIRAC |