1. EGI-Engage Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons
Project Overview
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EGI-Engage: a project overview

2. Digital Capabilities People Knowledge Provide solutions for
Mission
Provide solutions for
open science, research and innovation
by federating
Digital Capabilities
People
Knowledge
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3. EGI-Engage Open Science Commons 8 M Euro 1169 PMs 42 Beneficiaries
Researchers from all disciplines have easy, integrated and open access to the advanced digital services, scientific instruments, data, knowledge and expertise they need to collaborate to achieve excellence in science, research and innovation.
Scientific Instruments
Data Commons
E-infrastr. Commons
Knowledge Commons
30 Months
8 M Euro
1169 PMs
42 Beneficiaries
EGI-Engage
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4. EGI-Engage: a project overview
Project structure
NA1: Project management
NA2: Policy and communications
JRA1: AAI and operational tools development
JRA2: Data platform, Federated cloud, e-infrastructure integration, GPGPU integration
SA1: Evolve EGI Operations, deploy new platforms
SA2: Competence Centers, enable the RIs use cases in the EGI infrastructure
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5. The shifts of EGI-Engage: user engagement
User-centric approach, 39% of project effort for user-driven developments and integration, community engagement
User-driven co-development of federated HTC and cloud infrastructure with the support of 7 RIs on the ESFRI roadmap
Multiple user groups
long tail ad hoc services and policies
Research Infrastructures
Industry/SMEs
Data as a service
On-demand VREs (data products for information as a service)
Scientific software as a service
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6. The shifts of EGI-Engage: Distributed Competence Centre
BBMRI: data and compute infrastructure that will allow a biobank federation for the storage of big data, parallel data analysis (EGI/EUDAT pilot)
DARIAH: federated cloud storage for high availability of data exploitation, science gateway (grid&cloud), real-time search application
EISCAT_3D: archiving and processing of data (joint EGI/EUDAT pilot)
ELIXIR: enable a federated data analysis infrastructure for representative use cases
EPOS: AAI, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS federated cloud services for data exploitation
Structural biology/INSTRUCT: computation services for big data
LifeWatch: Processing tools for biodiversity data, depositing of citizen scientist data, on demand virtual laboratories in the federated cloud
Disaster Mitigation: Enable applications from this domain on DCIs and facilitate access through gateways
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7. The shifts of EGI-Engage: Services for the federation
Evolution of the AAI infrastructure and security operations infrastructure
Technical evolution of the tools for federation including accounting, monitoring, resource allocation, operations tools
Integration with infrastructure for PID registration and resolution
Extending the current operational tools to evolve the support for cloud resources;
Evolve EGI.eu tools to become able to serve any Research Infrastructure:
Deployment of the tools in other infrastructure during EGI-Engage
Introduce new tools as the EGI.eu Service Catalogue and Marketplace
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8. The shifts of EGI-Engage: From IaaS to PaaS and SaaS
Development of new cloud solutions
From IaaS to community-managed and/or EGI-managed PaaS
Federated secure cloud storage
Data as a service
Scalable access to “active” archives, no more separation between data and computing
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9. The shifts of EGI-Engage: New platforms
Federated services for education (supported by the federated cloud)
Infrastructure for citizen science
Federated GPGPU infrastructure
Virtual appliance library
On-demand VREs
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10. The shifts of EGI-Engage: Business models
From federation of community services to
Pay for use
Free at point of use
SLAs in a federated environment
Cross-border procurement of public services
Big data exploitation in various selected sectors
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11. The shifts of EGI-Engage: Federating knowledge
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12. Outputs: Services and Solutions
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
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13. Outputs: EGI and ESFRI business models
A market of service providers and consumers will be established, the pay-for-use business model and its supporting tools for accounting and billing will be in place, the SLA and contract framework will be implemented and the service providers with the right legal conditions will successfully adopt it;
There will be a better understanding of the opportunities and barriers for cross-border procurements of e-Infrastructure services by RIs
A new EGI governance framework suitable to support new business models will be identified and evaluated by the EGI Council for adoption
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14. Outputs: open data platform
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.
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15. Outputs: AAI evolution
Tight collaboration with the AARC project
Dedicated effort in EGI-Engage to implement the AAI infrastructure designed in AARC
The target is enable distributed collaboration over diverse AuthN/Z technologies
Distributed authentication: IdP Federations integration
Distributed authorization: Attribute Authorities federation
Technology interoperability: token translations
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16. Outputs: Cloud IaaS. PaaS and SaaS
A unified user interface will allow users to migrate their virtual machines among different cloud providers.
The EGI tools will operate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS federated services
Enabling services for 7 European RIs on the ESFRI roadmap
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17. Main impact on the production infrastructure
JRA1
Evolution of the operational tools
See Diego’s presentation
JRA2
Evolution of the federated cloud
Data platform
SA1
Evolution of the security
SA2
Requirements from the CCs
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18. EGI-Engage: a project overview
Collaborations
EUDAT2020  4 pilot activities for the interoperability of technical services
BBMRI
EISCAT-3D
ELIXIR
ICOS
Indigo Datacloud  technology provisioning, user and service provider requirements gathering
AARC  federated IdM adoption (policies, services, requirements)
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EGI-Engage: a project overview