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Federated Cloud Communities
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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 does not foresee moving into production. |
| 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 assessed 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 |
Preparatory | FedCloudBILSPConsC2 |
| BILS | Genome Annotation service | 2014.10.31 | Natural sciences
Biological sciences |
Assessed | FedCloudBILSGenomeAnnotation |
| 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 | 2014.03.12 | Support activities
Digital archivies |
Preparatory | FedCloudDCHRP |
| 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 |
| Aix Marseille Universite | RSAT: regulatory sequence analysis tools | 2014.10.08 | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Other |
Preparatory | FedCloudRSAT |
| VERCE | Running a web service on the FedCloud | 2013 | Natural sciences
Earth sciences Seismology |
Preparatory | 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 | 2014.07.08 | Support activities
Digital archivies |
Test & Integration | FedCloudHAPPI |
| DRIHM | Run Hydrology and Hydraulic models on the cloud | 2014.06.18 | Natural sciences
Earth sciences Hydrology |
Test & Integration | FedCloudDRIHM |
| ELIXIR | Access to EGI Cloud Marketplace via EBI IdP | 2014.05.01 | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Bioinformatics |
Test & Integration | FedCloudElixirAppDB |
| IFCA | Hydrodynamic modeling using EGI FedCloud | 2014.09.25 | Natural sciences
Earth sciences Hydrology |
Test & Integration | FedCloudIFCAHydrodynamic |
| IFCA | Water Quality modeling using EGI FedCloud | 2014.11.06 | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Ecology |
Test & Integration | FedCloudIFCAWaterQuality |
| INERTIA | (several use cases) | 2014.09.01 | Engineering and technology
Environmental engineering Energy and fuels |
Test & Integration | FedCloudINERTIA |
| CERN ATLAS | Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud | 2014.10.15 | Natural sciences
Phisical sciences |
Test & Integration | FedCloudAtlasVCycle |
| CERN LHCb | Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud | 2014.11.19 | Natural sciences
Phisical sciences |
Test & Integration | FedCloudLHCbVCycle |
| IFCA | CMS Open Data Portal | 2014.11.20 | Natural sciences
Physical sciences High energy physics |
Test & Integration | FedCloudIFCACMSOpenDataPortal |
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 | Humanities
Languages and literature Linguistics |
FedCloudBNCweb | |
| Cranfield University | Exploit the FedCloud capabilities to study resource allocation and scheduling algorithms for federated cloud systems | Natural sciences
Computer sciences Distributed computing |
FedCloudCranfield | |
| ENVRI | Data access, catalog and dissemination (EISCAT 3D) | Natural sciences
Phisical sciences Space science |
EGI_ENVRI | |
| ESA | SSEP Data processing | Natural sciences | FedCloudESAPoC | |
| Jena University | JAMS (Jena Adaptable Modelling System): run JAMS in the FedCloud | Natural sciences
Earth sciences Hydrology |
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 | Natural sciences
Biological sciences Structural biology |
FedCloudWeNMR |
High level tools
Note: High level tools in production status phase
| Community | Description | Registration date | Status | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catania Science Gateway Framework | Exploit SaaS model | Production | CSGF App. Broker HowTo | |
| DIRAC | VMDIRAC portal as VM scheduler with 3rd party broker (with WeNMR) | Production | FedCloudDIRAC | |
| SCI-BUS | Test/debug new releases of WS-PGRADE | Test & Integration | FedCloudWSPGRADE |