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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: it is a browser-based interface that contains everything necessary to run users' workflow without user having to install anything on their own computer.	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	biomed	PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET	Wiki page
BioVeL	OpenRefine: it is a powerful tool for working with messy data, cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases.	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	biomed	PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET	Wiki page
BioVeL	OpenModeller: The Ecological Niche Modelling (ENM) Workflow takes as input a file containing species occurrence points to create a model with the openModeller Web Service.	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	biomed	CESNET	Wiki page
BioVeL	BioSTIF: it is a web map application designed for the interactive visualisation of spatio-temporal data.	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	biomed	PRISMA-INFN-BARI, BIFI, CESNET	Wiki page
Peachnote	OCR analysis in music scores	Humanities Arts Musicology	peachnote.com	CESNET-MetaCloud, FZJ	Wiki page
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	Wiki page

Use Cases under development

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

Community	Description	Registration date	Scientific discipline	Status	Further information
Aix Marseille Universite	RSAT (Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools): it provides a series of modular computer programs specifically designed for the detection of regulatory signals in non-coding sequences.	2014.10.08	Natural sciences Biological sciences Other	Preparatory	Wiki page
BILS	BILS portal	2014.10.31	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	Wiki page
BILS	PConsC2	2014.10.31	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Preparatory	Wiki page
BILS	Genome Annotation service	2014.10.31	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	Wiki page
BioVeL	EDIT: it is a portal to access/visualize Catalogue of Life taxonomy data	2013	Natural sciences Biological sciences Biodiversity conservation	Assessed	Wiki page
BSIM2	Proof of Concept and optimization of data workflow (several use cases)	2014.04.12	Natural sciences Biological sciences	Assessed	Wiki page
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	Wiki page
CERN ATLAS	Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud	2014.10.15	Natural sciences Phisical sciences High energy physics	Test & Integration	Wiki page
CERN LHCb	Running Vac/VCycle on the EGI FedCloud	2014.11.19	Natural sciences Phisical sciences High energy physics	Test & Integration	Wiki page
CHAIN-REDS	WRF: weather research forecast	2013	Natural sciences Earth sciences Atmospheric science	Pre-production	Wiki page
CHAIN-REDS	R: language and environment for statistical computing and graphics	2013	Natural sciences Mathematics Statistics and probability	Pre-production	Wiki page
CHAIN-REDS	Octave	2013	Natural sciences Mathematics Applied mathematics	Pre-production	Wiki page
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	Wiki page
CSC / ELIXIR	Chipster: it 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	2014.08.01	Natural sciences Biological sciences Bioinformatics	Test & Integration	Wiki page
DCH-RP	Deploy HAPPI sw in the FedCloud	2014.07.08	Support activities Digital archivies	Test & Integration	Wiki page
DCH-RP	Long term preservation in the cloud	2014.03.12	Support activities Digital archivies	Preparatory	Wiki page
DRIHM	Run Hydrology and Hydraulic models on the cloud	2014.06.18	Natural sciences Earth sciences Hydrology	Test & Integration	Wiki page
ELIXIR	Access to EGI Cloud Marketplace via EBI IdP	2014.05.01	Natural sciences Biological sciences Bioinformatics	Test & Integration	Wiki page
HARNESS	The HARNESS project is developing a new generation of cloud computing platforms that integrate heterogeneous hardware resources to provide vastly increased performance with reduced energy consumption and lower cost. HARNESS would like to organise training events using FedCloud resources	2014.10.06	Natural sciences Computer sciences Distributed Computing	Assessed	Wiki page
HARNESS	The HARNESS project developed a PaaS to better exploit cloud resources. Aim of this use case is deploying the HARNESS PaaS on the EGI Federated Cloud to make it available for EGI users.	2014.10.06	Natural sciences Computer sciences Distributed Computing	Assessed	Wiki page
IFCA	Hydrodynamic modeling using EGI FedCloud	2014.09.25	Natural sciences Earth sciences Hydrology	Test & Integration	Wiki page
IFCA	Water Quality modeling using EGI FedCloud	2014.11.06	Natural sciences Biological sciences Ecology	Test & Integration	Wiki page
IFCA	CMS Open Data Portal	2014.11.20	Natural sciences Physical sciences High energy physics	Test & Integration	Wiki page
IFCA	TRUFA (Transcriptomes User-Friendly Analysis): it is a free webserver designed to help you perform RNA-seq analysis.	2014.08.01	Natural sciences Biological sciences Evolutionary biology	Assessed	Wiki page
INERTIA	(several use cases)	2014.09.01	Engineering and technology Environmental engineering Energy and fuels	Test & Integration	Wiki page
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	Wiki page
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	Wiki page
VERCE	Running a web service on the FedCloud	2013	Natural sciences Earth sciences Seismology	Preparatory	Wiki page

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