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20 digital research infrastructures,
EGI, EUDAT CDI and INDIGO-DataCloud
jointly offering services, software and data
for advanced, data-driven research & innovation
100
partners
36
months
33
million
Euro
The Hub:
a European contact point
to discover, access, use and reuse
resources for advanced data-driven research
15 Jan 2019
2
The federated infrastructure and supporting initiative
providing
all researchers, innovators, companies and citizens
with seamless access to an open-by-default, efficient and
cross-disciplinary environment
for storing, accessing, reusing data, tools, publications and
other scientific utputs for research, innovation and
educational purposes
About the European Open Science Cloud
PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019
3
EOSC Objectives
EOSC Objectives Actions
Increase the ability to exploit
research data across scientific
disciplines and between the public &
private sector
> Publish, discover, access services and resources for all scientific
disciplines
> Open to national, regional, pan-European providers, and supports
different exploitation models (e.g. free at point of use, commercial)
Increase interoperability,
interconnect the existing and the
new research digital infrastructures
across Europe
> Provide thematic services integrated with European
compute/data platforms for data exploitation
> Single sign on, integrated access and order
Support open science > Services to share and discover research artefacts (publications,
datasets, software, workflows etc.), research artefacts data sources
(publication repositories, publishers, data archives, software
archives, etc.)
PaNOSC Kickoff
EOSC-hub contributions to the EOSC roadmap
EOSC strategic actions 1/3
Architecture Provides a framework (the Hub) to manage
services sourced from a number of service
providers and plays the role of service
integrator.
Data Through data registries, provides a discovery
and access channel to FAIR-accredited datasets
415 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019 5
EOSC-hub contributions to the EOSC roadmap
EOSC strategic actions 2/3
Services Contributes to the definition of a participatory and
lightweight service portfolio management process
in collaboration with the participating service
providers, including RIs
Engages with the demand and supply side of the
EOSC, and will co-develop and operate a
marketplace as one entry point to EOSC.
PaNOSC Kickoff
6
EOSC-hub contributions to the EOSC roadmap
EOSC strategic actions 3/3
Rules of
Participation
Collaborates with partners and external
projects/initiatives to establish and
maintain a corpus of policies that is
attractive and provides value for both
service providers and service users.
15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
7
Service Portfolio
Arts and Humanities
Medical and Health Sciences
Physical Sciences
Earth Sciences
Biological Sciences
Data Lifecycle Management, Compute,
Scientific Applications
Research
Enabling
Services The
Hub
Access
Enabling
Services
15 Jan 2019
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/
PaNOSC Kickoff
EOSC-hub (external) service portfolio  Research enabling
- The set of customer-facing services that are offered by the
EOSC Hub
EOSC-hub internal service portfolio  Access enabling
- The set of supporting services needed to operate the EOSC Hub
8
External and internal services
15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
9
Another view on the services
based on the Research Data Lifecycle
Processing & Analysis
Data Management, Curation &
Preservation
Access, Deposition & Sharing
Federation Services
● B2FIND (data)
● Marketplace (Services)
● Applications on Demand
● Federated HTC & Cloud Compute IaaS &
PaaS
● Processing of sensitive data
● Jupyter Notebook
● Application DB (software & VM)
● B2DROP (data)
● B2Note (data)
● B2SHARE (data)
● DataHub
● Federated AAI. monitoring,
accounting
● SLA and order Management
● Security incident response and
policies
● Technical support & Training
● B2HANDLE
● B2SAFE
● European Certified Trusted
Repository
● Thematic data analytics
● Scientific Workflow Management,
Orchestration (DIRAC, PaaS
Orchestrator)
1
2
3
4
Discover & Reuse
15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
10
Services by area
e-Infra
EGI
Federation
EUDAT CDI
INDIGO-
DataCloud
Humanities
Language
and
literature
(CLARIN)
Arts
(DARIAH)
Engineering
Environmen
tal
engineering
(sea vessels,
LNEC)
Civil
Engineering
(Disaster
Mitigation)
Medical
and Health
Sciences
Biological
Sciences
(ELIXIR)
Structural
biology
(WeNMR)
Natural
sciences
Physical Sciences
• Astronomy (LOFAR)
• Fusion (ITER)
• High Energy Physics
(CMS and VIRGO)
• Space Science
(EISCAT-3D)
Earth Science
• EO Pillar
• GEO
• Climate Research
(ENES)
• Seismology (ORFEUS,
EPOS)
Biological Sciences
• Marine and
freshwater biology
(IFREMER)
• Biodiversity
conservation
(LifeWatch)
• Ecology (ICOS)
15 Jan 2019
11
EOSC-hub Compute Platform: EGI
4.4 Billion CPU core wall time in 2018, 1 M cores, > 730 PB
1170 open access publications, +41 new international projects
31 large scale ESFRI projects/landmarks supported
15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
12
EOSC-hub Data Platform: EUDAT CDI
15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019 13
Marketplace: discover/request/access/support
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/
PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019 14
AAI: AARC Blueprint Architecture - BPA
“Community-first” BPA approach
– Researchers sign in using their institutional
(eduGAIN), social or community-managed IdP
via their Research Community AAI
– Community-specific services are connected to a
single Community AAI
– Generic services (e.g. RCauth.eu Online CA) can
be connected to more than one Community
AAI proxies
– e-Infra services are connected to a single e-
infra SP proxy service gateway, e.g. B2ACCESS,
Check-in, Identity Hub, etc
PaNOSC Kickoff
Credits: AARC project
15 Jan 2019
15
EOSC-hub compliant AAI service offer
• EOSC branded multi-tenant service:
for federated AAI supporting all
standard authentication options
(eduGAIN, social media, ORCID..) and
group membership capabilities
• AAI SaaS: individual components or
AAI platform as a whole): all the
standard authentication options
(eduGAIN, social media, ORCID), plus
community-specific IdPs with
customization
PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019 16
EOSC-hub Community AAI technical solutions
EUDATB2ACCESS
EGICheck-in
GÉANTedutEAMS
INDIGO-IAM
PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019
17
• Jupyter notebooks on
cloud/EGI
• Federated cloud
provisioning/EGI
• Data transfer/EGI
• Data discovery and
archiving/EUDAT
Technical collaboration with PaNOSC
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/egi-cloud-compute
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/egi-notebooks
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/b2find
https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/b2safe
PaNOSC Kickoff
15 Jan 2019 18
EOSC-hub / PaNOSC Collaboration
• Strategic
–EOSC-hub Strategic Board participation
• Technical
–Technical support and service provisioning
• Operational
–Coordinated user support and outreach
PaNOSC Kickoff
eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu
Thank you
for your attention!
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2019 01-15 pa nosc kickoff

  • 1. 20 digital research infrastructures, EGI, EUDAT CDI and INDIGO-DataCloud jointly offering services, software and data for advanced, data-driven research & innovation 100 partners 36 months 33 million Euro The Hub: a European contact point to discover, access, use and reuse resources for advanced data-driven research
  • 2. 15 Jan 2019 2 The federated infrastructure and supporting initiative providing all researchers, innovators, companies and citizens with seamless access to an open-by-default, efficient and cross-disciplinary environment for storing, accessing, reusing data, tools, publications and other scientific utputs for research, innovation and educational purposes About the European Open Science Cloud PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 3. 15 Jan 2019 3 EOSC Objectives EOSC Objectives Actions Increase the ability to exploit research data across scientific disciplines and between the public & private sector > Publish, discover, access services and resources for all scientific disciplines > Open to national, regional, pan-European providers, and supports different exploitation models (e.g. free at point of use, commercial) Increase interoperability, interconnect the existing and the new research digital infrastructures across Europe > Provide thematic services integrated with European compute/data platforms for data exploitation > Single sign on, integrated access and order Support open science > Services to share and discover research artefacts (publications, datasets, software, workflows etc.), research artefacts data sources (publication repositories, publishers, data archives, software archives, etc.) PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 4. EOSC-hub contributions to the EOSC roadmap EOSC strategic actions 1/3 Architecture Provides a framework (the Hub) to manage services sourced from a number of service providers and plays the role of service integrator. Data Through data registries, provides a discovery and access channel to FAIR-accredited datasets 415 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 5. 15 Jan 2019 5 EOSC-hub contributions to the EOSC roadmap EOSC strategic actions 2/3 Services Contributes to the definition of a participatory and lightweight service portfolio management process in collaboration with the participating service providers, including RIs Engages with the demand and supply side of the EOSC, and will co-develop and operate a marketplace as one entry point to EOSC. PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 6. 6 EOSC-hub contributions to the EOSC roadmap EOSC strategic actions 3/3 Rules of Participation Collaborates with partners and external projects/initiatives to establish and maintain a corpus of policies that is attractive and provides value for both service providers and service users. 15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 7. 7 Service Portfolio Arts and Humanities Medical and Health Sciences Physical Sciences Earth Sciences Biological Sciences Data Lifecycle Management, Compute, Scientific Applications Research Enabling Services The Hub Access Enabling Services 15 Jan 2019 https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/ PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 8. EOSC-hub (external) service portfolio  Research enabling - The set of customer-facing services that are offered by the EOSC Hub EOSC-hub internal service portfolio  Access enabling - The set of supporting services needed to operate the EOSC Hub 8 External and internal services 15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 9. 9 Another view on the services based on the Research Data Lifecycle Processing & Analysis Data Management, Curation & Preservation Access, Deposition & Sharing Federation Services ● B2FIND (data) ● Marketplace (Services) ● Applications on Demand ● Federated HTC & Cloud Compute IaaS & PaaS ● Processing of sensitive data ● Jupyter Notebook ● Application DB (software & VM) ● B2DROP (data) ● B2Note (data) ● B2SHARE (data) ● DataHub ● Federated AAI. monitoring, accounting ● SLA and order Management ● Security incident response and policies ● Technical support & Training ● B2HANDLE ● B2SAFE ● European Certified Trusted Repository ● Thematic data analytics ● Scientific Workflow Management, Orchestration (DIRAC, PaaS Orchestrator) 1 2 3 4 Discover & Reuse 15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 10. 10 Services by area e-Infra EGI Federation EUDAT CDI INDIGO- DataCloud Humanities Language and literature (CLARIN) Arts (DARIAH) Engineering Environmen tal engineering (sea vessels, LNEC) Civil Engineering (Disaster Mitigation) Medical and Health Sciences Biological Sciences (ELIXIR) Structural biology (WeNMR) Natural sciences Physical Sciences • Astronomy (LOFAR) • Fusion (ITER) • High Energy Physics (CMS and VIRGO) • Space Science (EISCAT-3D) Earth Science • EO Pillar • GEO • Climate Research (ENES) • Seismology (ORFEUS, EPOS) Biological Sciences • Marine and freshwater biology (IFREMER) • Biodiversity conservation (LifeWatch) • Ecology (ICOS) 15 Jan 2019
  • 11. 11 EOSC-hub Compute Platform: EGI 4.4 Billion CPU core wall time in 2018, 1 M cores, > 730 PB 1170 open access publications, +41 new international projects 31 large scale ESFRI projects/landmarks supported 15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 12. 12 EOSC-hub Data Platform: EUDAT CDI 15 Jan 2019 PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 13. 15 Jan 2019 13 Marketplace: discover/request/access/support https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/ PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 14. 15 Jan 2019 14 AAI: AARC Blueprint Architecture - BPA “Community-first” BPA approach – Researchers sign in using their institutional (eduGAIN), social or community-managed IdP via their Research Community AAI – Community-specific services are connected to a single Community AAI – Generic services (e.g. RCauth.eu Online CA) can be connected to more than one Community AAI proxies – e-Infra services are connected to a single e- infra SP proxy service gateway, e.g. B2ACCESS, Check-in, Identity Hub, etc PaNOSC Kickoff Credits: AARC project
  • 15. 15 Jan 2019 15 EOSC-hub compliant AAI service offer • EOSC branded multi-tenant service: for federated AAI supporting all standard authentication options (eduGAIN, social media, ORCID..) and group membership capabilities • AAI SaaS: individual components or AAI platform as a whole): all the standard authentication options (eduGAIN, social media, ORCID), plus community-specific IdPs with customization PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 16. 15 Jan 2019 16 EOSC-hub Community AAI technical solutions EUDATB2ACCESS EGICheck-in GÉANTedutEAMS INDIGO-IAM PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 17. 15 Jan 2019 17 • Jupyter notebooks on cloud/EGI • Federated cloud provisioning/EGI • Data transfer/EGI • Data discovery and archiving/EUDAT Technical collaboration with PaNOSC https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/egi-cloud-compute https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/egi-notebooks https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/b2find https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/b2safe PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 18. 15 Jan 2019 18 EOSC-hub / PaNOSC Collaboration • Strategic –EOSC-hub Strategic Board participation • Technical –Technical support and service provisioning • Operational –Coordinated user support and outreach PaNOSC Kickoff
  • 19. eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu Thank you for your attention! Questions?