1. EGI.eu Technical Director EGI-Engage Technical Coordinator
Achievements
Tiziana Ferrari
EGI.eu Technical Director
EGI-Engage Technical Coordinator

2. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Outline
Outcomes and impacts
Achievements and ambition
EGI-Engage contribution to the DSM
EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements

3. EGI-Engage contribution to the challenges of the H2020 work programme
Outcomes and Impacts
EGI-Engage contribution to the challenges of the H2020 work programme

4. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Increased availability of scientific data for scientific communities
Optimisation of the use of IT equipment
Avoiding lock-in to particular hardware or software
Scientific communities embrace storage and computing infrastructures
Expected impacts
EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements

5. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Increased availability of scientific data for scientific communities
Impact 1
Data dissemination and exploitation
Earth Observation (ESA TEP), Biodiversity, Fishery and marine sciences data sector
Data sharing policies and legal framework
HBP Active repositories
EGI Data Hub Service definition
Data accounting design
EGI-EUDAT baseline interoperability for data exploitation and preservation
Open Data Platform requirements and design
Business engagement programme
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6. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Optimisation of the use of IT equipment
Impact 2
15 Integrated infrastructures (e-Infrastructures and RIs)
650,000 federated cores (+23.6%)
Increased usage (+26.4%)
21 federated cloud providers
Virtual access to GPGPU clusters
Updated service policies and procedures and improved security for the EGI cloud federation
Security risk threat assessment, 17 policies, 5 security procedures, 23 operational procedures
Federated service management
8 UMD software releases with support of Ubuntu and CentOS
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7. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Avoiding lock-in to particular hardware or software
Impact 3
Contribution to the definition of OGF standard OCCI v1.2
Library of portable software and virtual appliances
EGI Marketplace design
Updated EGI service portfolio and SSB
Open Science Commons vision and endorsement by the European Council, 2015
European Open Science Cloud principles, Nov 2015
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8. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Scientific communities embrace storage and computing infrastructures
Impact 4
3 SLAs for DRIHM/hydro-meteorology, MoBrain/structural biology , BILS/bioinformatics
In progress: Terradue, HBP, Nanotechnology, Life sciences, EXTraS
9 RIs in production INSTRUCT, BBMRI.NL, IceCube, CTA, KM3NeT, LOFAR, LSST, Virgo, LifeWatch
7 RIs in preparatory stage: DARIAH, EISCAT-3D, ELIXIR, ELI, EMSO, EPOS, SKA
46,000 estimated users
38 Engaged user groups/RIs
36 Business cases
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9. Advancement in the project activity roadmap and next steps
Outcomes
Advancement in
the project activity roadmap and next steps

10. EGI Service and Solution Portfolio
Outcome
Status
The full EGI Service portfolio will provide a detailed cost model, the solutions will be improved and adapted to specific target groups according to new requirements (e.g. long tail, SMEs).
A service marketplace prototype will be provided for billing and on-demand pay-for-use provisioning.
Advanced
PY2
Further development of new services under definition/implementation
Marketplace prototype and Terms of Reference
Long tail of science solution in place
Extended set of solutions including thematic ones
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11. EGI Strategy and Execution
Outcome
Status
The Open Science Commons vision will be fully developed and disseminated. The performance management framework will be implemented, the impact of EGI will be measured with quantitative and qualitative indicators, The implementation of the Open Science Commons will be advanced.
Advanced
PY2
Performance management based on new strategy
Continual strategy revision and implementation
Contribution to the European Open Science Cloud roadmap
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12. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
EGI Governance
Outcome
Status
A new EGI governance framework suitable to support new business models will be identified and evaluated by the EGI Council for adoption.
Advanced
PY2
Affiliation programme
Assessment and evolution
EGI.eu brokering function
EGI.eu as lead procurer
EOSC Governance
Contribution to the European Open Science Cloud roadmap
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13. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Competence Centres
Outcome
Status
A network of seven international CCs with the participation of user communities, technology providers and NGIs, as well as by partners from US and the Asia-Pacific region will be established.
Completed
PY2
New unfunded CCs
Ongoing co-design and co-development
EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements

14. Prototype Open Data Solution
Outcome
Status
Federated services supporting the whole data-cycle will be prototyped to provide a solution for open data publishing, use and reuse of data. The solution will integrate data and computing services into one offer.
Advanced
PY2
EGI Data Hub definition
Open Data Platform development
Continue/extend piloting
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15. Evolve the EGI security framework
Outcome
Status
The EGI security framework will meet the requirements of new trust models, new technologies and new usage scenarios. CSIRT will collaborate with the other e-Infrastructures to evolve the security activities as part of the e-Infrastructure Commons .
Advanced
LTOS usage scenario completed
WISE initiative of collaborating e-Infrastructures
PY2
Improve EGI cloud security requirements and complete the definition of the cloud security model
From AAI pilots to new operational services
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16. EGI-Engage contribution to the DSM
The Open Cloud Initiative
The European Open Science Cloud

17. European Cloud Initiative
Addresses the third pillar of the Digital Single Market
Maximize growth potential of European digital economy
Comprises
European Open Science Cloud  store, share, reuse data and knowledge
European Data Infrastructure  big data analytics, high-capacity cloud cloud solutions, advanced computing
Research, government, industry, society
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18. European Cloud Initiative and EGI-Engage
Publicly funded research data is not open
Objective 4: Open data platform and and implementation of the European Big Data Value
Lack of interoperability
Objective 3: Cloud open standards, Single Sign On, legal interoperability of research data
Fragmentation
Objective 3/5: Data Commons, Knowledge Commons, RI and eInfra co-development, the EGI Data Hub (data/computing/software/tools)
Increasing demand for HPC computing capacity
Objective 4: On demand advanced computing and distributed access to HPC, pan-European federation of storage, advanced computing, software and applications
Need for data privacy and security
Objective 5: management of sensitive data on hybrid clouds (BBMRI, ELIXIR)
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19. European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
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20. Input to HLEG. Challenge 1
Bridge data preservation infrastructures and computing
Via a federation of service hubs, offering storage, computing, software, thematic tools, geo-replication of research data, with sustained national and European public co-funding
EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements

21. Input to HLEG. Challenge 2
Open Science platforms: sharing of open tools, applications, scientific software, research data
Community platforms can be discovered, offered, supported, shared and accessed through grants
EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements

22. Input to HLEG. Challenge 3
From “services” to “solutions” involving multiple providers
(e-Infras, RIs, research communities, data providers, commercial service providers…)
Co-design, harmonized access policies, federated service management processes, support, training, service discoverability
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23. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
EOSC principles
EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements

24. EOSC Research Objects Hub
Thematic services (data products, pipelines, software, virtual appliances..)
Research outputs
Hub-specific service management processes, business processes, policies
Cloud compute
Cloud container compute
HTC and HPC
Storage/data management
EOSC Research Objects Hub
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25. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
A worldwide OSC
EOSC Hub
EOSC Hub
EOSC Hub
OSC Hub
EOSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
OSC Hub
Private cloud
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26. Business relationships
B2C Relationships
Public &
private research/
Educators/
Citizen science/
E-gov/
Innovators
EOSC
Research
Community services
Composite service providers
E-Infras
Data providers
RIs …
B2B Relationships …
B2B Relationships
Service providers (publicly funded/commercial)
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27. EGI-Engage PY1 Review - Achievements
Summary
EGI-Engage advanced in addressing the expected impacts
EGI-Engage addresses various challenges of the European Cloud Initiative
EGI-Engage outputs and human networks will contribute to the EOSC implementation
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28. Acknowledgements
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