WP2: Definition os Support to Research Communities

Objectives

The objectives of this workpackage are to define the support required by Research Communities and to test and validate the state-of-the-art services developed by INDIGO to ensure that they will result in an increased use of production e-infrastructures in Europe, and in particular through the enhancement of services to share, manage and process research data. Research Communities covering a wide and significant spectrum of areas and expertise are represented through the participation of relevant institutions associated to ESFRIs or EIROs:

• Biological and Medical Sciences: EuroBioImaging –BBMRI (UPV), ELIXIR (CNR), INSTRUCT (U.Utrecht, CIRMMP)

• Social Sciences and Humanities: DARIAH (RBI), DCH-RP (ICCU)

• Environmental and Earth Sciences: LifeWatch (CSIC), EMSO (INGV), ENES (CMCC)

• Physical Sciences: LBT, CTA (INAF) [+conduit to WLCG+HEP from CERN]

One of the challenges of the project from the point of view of the Research Communities is to assure that the resulting frameworks will have a reasonable learning curve, and in particular that usual integrated tools (like Matlab/Octave, R-Studio, ROOT, etc) will keep the current interface, while benefiting from the access to powerful, on computing and storage, e-infrastructures resources.

A clear indicator of success for the project is associated to this workpackage: the number of users in these Research Communities using INDIGO to access production e-Infrastructures (EGI, PRACE) and the volume of the resources, data storage and computing hours, employed to produce first class research results. Through this workpackage, INDIGO will also have a direct interaction with proposals from the complementary call E-INFRADEV, to assure the collaboration where required, and promoting a larger impact.

Task 2.1

• Analyse the use cases proposed by the communities participating to the consortium. Capture the requirements for efficiently running the applications and workflows on Cloud, Grid or HPC infrastructures.
• Capture requirements generated by user communities not part of the project (such as the EGI Federated Cloud users), which are relevant for the outputs of the project
• Liaise with the INFRADEV-4 projects to enable synergies between the projects, and interoperability between the INDIGO outputs and the VRE to be deployed by the E-INFRA-9 projects.
• Produce an integrated document with the requirements captured, prioritized and grouped by technical areas, for example: Cloud, HPC, Grid and Data management.

Task 2.2

Task 2.3

Task 2.4

Task 2.5

Meetings

Kick-off Meeting - WP2