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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
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 discipline	VO	Sites	Further information
BioVeL	BioVeL Portal	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	biomed	PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET	FedCloudBiovelPortal
BioVeL	OpenRefine	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	biomed	PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET	FedCloudOpenRefine
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	Humanities Arts Musicology	peachnote.com	CESNET-MetaCloud, FZJ	FedCloudPeachnote
CUSM, Würzburg University	READemption: RNA-seq. analysis of data to understand different biological features and behaviour	Natural sciences Biological sciences Bioinformatics	highthroughputseq.egi.eu	GoeGrid	FedCloudRNASeq

Use Cases under development

Note: use cases from pre-assessment to pre-production status phases

Community	Description	Registration date	Scientific discipline	Status	Further information
BioVeL	EDIT: portal to access/visualize Catalogue of Life taxonomy data	2013	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	Assessed	FedCloudEdit
BSIM2	Proof of Concept and optimization of data workflow (several use cases)	2014.04.12	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	FedCloudBSIM2
CSC / ELIXIR	Chipster	2014.08.01	Natural sciences Biological sciences Bioinformatics	Assessed	FedCloudChipster
HARNESS	Organise training events using FedCloud resources	2014.10.06	Natural sciences Computer sciences Distributed Computing	Assessed	FedCloudHarnessTraining
HARNESS	Running Harness PaaS on the EGI FedCloud	2014.10.06	Natural sciences Computer sciences Distributed Computing	Assessed	FedCloudHarnessPaaS
IFCA	TRUFA	2014.08.01	Natural sciences Biological sciences Evolutionary biology	Assessed	FedCloudTRUFA
BILS	BILS portal	2014.10.31	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	FedCloudBILSPortal
BILS	PConsC2	2014.10.31	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	FedCloudBILSPConsC2
BILS	Genome Annotation service	2014.10.31	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	FedCloudBILSGenomeAnnotation
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	2014.07.28		Pre-assessment	FedCloudCarelliance
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	2013	Natural sciences Earth sciences Atmospheric science	Pre-production	FedCloudChainWRF
CHAIN-REDS	R: language and environment for statistical computing and graphics	2013	Natural sciences Mathematics Statistics and probability	Pre-production	FedCloudChainR
CHAIN-REDS	Octave	2013	Natural sciences Mathematics Applied mathematics	Pre-production	FedCloudChainOctave
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía	Calibration, Analysis and Modelling of Radio-Astronomy Data: Data Development of a calibration pipeline for LOFAR data	2014.10.06	Natural sciences Phisical sciences Astronomy	Assessed	FedCloudLOFAR
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía	Calibration, Analysis and Modelling of Radio-Astronomy Data: Modelling of the kinematic of galaxies (GIPSY)	2014.10.06	Natural sciences Phisical sciences Astronomy	Assessed	FedCloudGIPSY
DCH-RP	Long term preservation in the cloud			Preparatory
Charles University in Prague - First Faculty of Medicine	Physiome project: run on the FedCloud a system to support modelling of physiological systems.	2014.05.29	Medical and Health Sciences Basic medicine Physiology	Assessed	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.	2013	Natural sciences Phisical sciences Accelerator physics	Test & Integration	FedCloudAtlasSlipstream
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
CERN ATLAS	Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud	2014.10.15	Natural sciences Phisical sciences High energy physics	Test & Integration	FedCloudAtlasVCycle
CERN LHCb	Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud	2014.11.19	Natural sciences Phisical sciences High energy physics	Test & Integration	FedCloudLHCbVCycle

Closed Use Cases

Note: use cases that reached the Closed status phase

Community	Description	Scientific discipline	Outcome	Further information
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
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