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Dear all
We are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar titled "Reproducible Open Science with EGI Replay," scheduled for April 17th, 2024, at 14:00 CEST.
In this webinar, we will be showcasing EGI Replay, a managed service for the EGI Community based on Binder. EGI Replay empowers users to effortlessly reproduce intricate calculations, simulations, and visualizations by importing Jupyter Notebooks and their respective runtime environments. With just a single link, users can seamlessly share their work with collaborators, making Replay an indispensable tool for workshops, scientific workflows, and team collaboration.
**Highlights**
- Introduction to EGI Replay: A managed service for the EGI Community based on Binder.
- Ease of Reproducibility: Showcase of how EGI Replay enables users to effortlessly reproduce intricate calculations, simulations, and visualizations by importing Jupyter Notebooks and their respective runtime environments.
- Seamless Collaboration: Demonstration of how users can share their work with collaborators using a single link, making Replay an invaluable tool for workshops, scientific workflows, and team collaboration.
** Speaker**
Our esteemed speaker for this event will be Sebastian Luna-Valero, a Cloud Community Support Specialist at the EGI Foundation. Sebastian brings a wealth of experience in research computing and a passion for providing valuable computational support to researchers. He will be sharing insights into the capabilities of EGI Replay and how it facilitates reproducible open science within the EGI Community.
**Webpage**: https://www.egi.eu/event/reproducible-open-science-with-egi-replay/
**Registration** Registration for the webinar is now open! Secure your spot by registering at the following link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CdxIQ3z9RaqsDsOk_0riKw#/registr…
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about EGI Replay and how it can enhance your research endeavors. We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Yin
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Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | Twitter: @yinchen16
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Publication from : Tiziana Ferrari <Tiziana.Ferrari(a)egi.eu>
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Dear Colleagues
I am happy to announce the annual conference of the EGI Federation - EGI2024 - from September 30th until October 4th, 2024:
https://go.egi.eu/EGI2024
The conference is the a venue were you can share your results, insights and trends about innovative technical solutions advancing the field of computing in data-intensive science.
This year, EGI is proud to partner up with CMCC - the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - to host the conference in beautiful Lecce, Italy, a Mediterranean gem in Salento, between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas.
We encourage you to submit an application to the conference and wish to see many of you in person in Lecce!
Thanks in advance for sharing this announcement with your networks.
Best regards,
Tiziana Ferrari
Contribution types:
- Short Talk (max. 10 mins): when accepted, your talk will be added to the agenda of the appropriate session
- Long talk (max 20 mins): when accepted, your talk will be added to the agenda of the appropriate session
- Poster: format A0, will be displayed throughout the conference + dedicated networking during opening reception + 1’ pitch presentation opportunity
- Demonstration (max 30’): demonstrations showing a service, tool, or product + with dedicated networking during opening reception + 1’ pitch presentation opportunity
Topics
(1) Needs and solutions in scientific computing:
- Digital twins: Digital twins for the modelling of complex objects and phenomena
- Artificial Intelligence: Federated learning; Distributed AI/ML analytics; AI-powered services for science; Advancements in the “AI on Demand” platform
- Compute continuum: Hybrid compute infrastructures and the convergent use of HTC, HPC, cloud, container, edge and serverless technologies
- Platforms and gateways: Integrated and scalable online environments for scientific communities
(2) National perspectives on advanced computing:
- Services and approaches: New developments, challenges and opportunities in national e-infrastructures and scientific communities
- Federated operation: Tools, services and approaches for the delivery of computing services in federated environments
- Business models: Novel business models and sustainability approaches for data-intensive science in academia and industry
(3) Data innovations:
- Data spaces: Scalable solutions for data exchange and analysis in highly distributed ecosystems
- Data management and integration: Platforms, tools, services and data lakes for high performance data access and analytics
- Processing of sensitive data: Trusted services and environments for the exchange and analysis of sensitive data
(4) Environmental informatics:
- Green computing: Lowering the environmental impact of digital services, software and data analytics applications
- Climate Change/Environment: Advancing climate change research and addressing environmental challenges with advanced computing
(5) Trust and Security:
- Trusted computing: Solutions and standards for trust and security in distributed and federated environments
- Access control: Effective but non intrusive infrastructure controls
- Interoperability: Novel approaches for ensuring interoperable security across distributed service ecosystems.
(6) EOSC and Open Science
- Reproducible open science: Practices and solutions for FAIR, open and reproducible science
- EOSC: European Open Science Cloud developments and perspectives, in particular contributions of the EGI community to EOSC
Timeline:
Call for Abstracts open: March 21st
Deadline for proposals: April 25th
Confirmation of acceptance: on or before June 7th
Registration is planned to open mid-May
Please note that EGI2024 is intended to be an in-person event. All contributors (or their representatives) are expected to attend the conference on the premises.
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Director | EGI Foundation | M: 0031.6.3037.2691
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research | https://www.egi.eu/
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Dear EGI site and VO admins,
The EGI Foundation and 4 EGI members* are involved in a new Horizon Europe project, called GreenDIGIT and started working on the lowering of the environmental impact of digital infrastructures. GreenDIGIT will benefit the EGI community, 3 other DIGIT infrastructures from ESFRI (SLICES, SoBigData, EBRAINS) and thematic ESFRIs with significant IT capacities.
GreenDIGIT will work with the EGI sites and with reference VOs on a landscape study, on green metrics, on improved energy management and workload management practices.
I'd like to invite you to a zoom meeting where we'll introduce the GreenDIGIT project and will discuss these collaborative activities. Please indicate your availability for this first collaboration meeting in the following doodle: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/enGvEgWa
If your institute/VO has dedicated person(s) for green/environmental aspects of your data centre/applications, then please forward this invitation to them.
* CESNET, CNRS, CSIC, SZTAKI
Thanks and regards,
Gergely Sipos
(Head of Services, Solutions, Support @ EGI Foundation)
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Dear all
Join us for the 2024 EGI Webinar series, where we bring you engaging discussions on hot topics, cutting-edge e-infrastructure technology, new EGI services, and insights from the community's experiences. We're thrilled to present talks by the best speakers from domain experts.
*2024 First Webinar*
**Title**: Introduction to the new generation EGI container execution platform
**Description**:
Discover the evolution of the EGI Cloud Container Compute service into a groundbreaking system – a fully managed Kubernetes clusters platform for end users. Our expert speaker will guide you through building container images, storing and sharing them via the Harbor repository, and running them seamlessly with the Rancher service on fully managed Kubernetes clusters.
**Highlights**
--Cutting-edge insights into the latest technology
--Demo of container image building
--Efficient storage and sharing using the Harbor repository
--Seamless deployment on fully managed Kubernetes clusters with the Rancher service
**Speaker**
Dr Adrián Rošinec, Cloud Engineer, CESNET, CZ
We are thrilled to introduce Adrián, a distinguished professional in informatics and cloud computing. As a Cloud Engineer at CESNET, the Czech National e-infrastructure Center, he specializes in optimizing deployments for scientific applications. Adrián's Ph.D. journey focuses on creating metadata ontologies and semantics for molecular dynamics data, aiming to revolutionize molecular research and protein engineering tools for the scientific community.
Don't miss out on the most cutting-edge and attractive technology of the moment! Stay tuned for more details and secure your spot to stay at the forefront of e-infrastructure advancements.
**Date and Time**: 24th January, Wednesday, 14CET
**Webpage**: https://www.egi.eu/event/webinar-introduction-to-the-container-platform/
**Registration**: https://eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0STcI5qERPSO8TmJ9-sa_g#/registr…
Yin
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Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Dear All,
We would like to announce that GRIF/IJCLAB (ex-LAL) site has started the decommissioning procedure of grid05.lal.in2p3.fr DPM service due to end of life. The services end-points which are provided by node grid05.lal.in2p3.fr will be decommissioned in 7 weeks :
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=3136 (SRM)
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=4474 (XROOTD)
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=9664 (WebDAV)
https://gocdb-preprod.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Service&id=10062 (Accounting)
The detailed timeline is the following:
2023-12-07 creation of the parent ggus ticket -
( https://ggus.eu/index.php?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=164582)
2023-12-07 Broadcast message to supported VOs
2023-12-22 Creation of the downtime: begin the downtime
2024-01-02 : set to "production=N" "monitored=N"
2024-01-25: All the supported VO have to verify the migration of their data.
2024-01-25: stop all services
2024-01-26: remove service end-points entries from GOCDB
with best regards,
On behalf of the GRIF ops team
Vamvakopoulos Emmanouil
P.S. In the case of any question or issue please open a ticket on the GRIF side
with subject "decommission - grid05.lal.in2p3.fr"
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Hi all,
Apologies for bulk releasing a bunch of held messages- this must have
confused you!
This list is the default contact address of EISCAT VO managers for
messages from the EGI systems, so the list server must be set to accept
such messages (rather than the default which is to hold messages from
non-members). Hopefully I've managed to do so now.
Best regards,
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Dr. Carl-Fredrik Enell
Scientific data services developer
EISCAT Scientific Association
PO Box 812
SE-98128 Kiruna, Sweden
Telephone (work): +46 980 790 88
or +46 70 660 86 57
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Dear All,
We would like to inform you that there will be maintenance and expansion work at our datacenter in Crete where most of our services are hosted. The Datacenter will be shut down from 14/07 to 16/07 so all our services will be down for these days.
The Services affected are the following
Monitoring
Messaging
Our backup monitoring engine will continue to collect monitoring data which will be processed when data center is back online .
Sorry for any inconvenience
On Behalf of the Argo team
Kostas Koumantaros
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Dear colleagues
We would like to inform you that during July-December 2023 the EGI Services for Federation (https://www.egi.eu/services/federation/) will continue to be delivered and be operated in maintenance mode, ensuring continuous operation and security system maintenance, but no major technical developments or upgrades.
The following provisioning cycle of EGI Services for Federation will be defined and agreed by the EGI Council in Q4 2023. The new provisioning cycle will be organised accordingly and is provisionally planned to start from January 2024.
For more information please contact: operations(a)egi.eu
Best regards
Matthew Viljoen
Service Delivery and Information Security team lead
EGI Foundation
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Dear all
I trust that your time at the EGI conference was exceptionally productive! In line with the conference's spirit, we are delighted to announce a captivating webinar by I-NERGY, scheduled for Tuesday, July 4th, from 14:00 to 15:00. This insightful session will feature honoured speakers, Sotiris Pelekis and Marija Borisov, both researchers and experts for the I-NERGY community services.
We urge you to register promptly, ensuring you don't miss out on this remarkable opportunity to delve into the realm of advanced approaches and cutting-edge technologies in AI-based service development. Prepare to be captivated as Sotiris Pelekis and Marija Borisov share their expertise, shedding light on the latest innovations in this rapidly evolving field.
Mark your calendars and secure your spot now, as this webinar promises to be an enriching experience that will undoubtedly deepen your understanding and broaden your horizons. Join us as we embark on a journey of knowledge and discovery, embracing the forefront of AI-driven service development.
Title: I-NERGY, European AI-on demand platform
Date & Time: Tuesday, 4th July 2023 |14:00 -15:00 CEST
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mR2gzZ__Qi2YI7zXbbq-3A
Description:
I-NERGY aims to support and develop novel AI-based energy services as part of the enrichment of European AI-on demand platform. This webinar will present the objectives and scope of the project, its requirements in terms of resources and the successful utilisation of EGI infrastructure. The webinar will conclude with a demo of I-NERGY services.
Target audience: Domain scientists and research
Program:
- I-NERGY project and AIOD overview (scope, objectives, services / assets, pilots) - 15' minutes
- I-NERGY needs (related to resources) and..... - I-NERGY architecture and how EGI infrastructure was used and supported us - benefits from this collaboration / impact for the project - 5-10 minutes / slides
- Demo presentation of one or more of I-NERGY services (15 mins)
- Q&A 15 mins
Speaker: Sotiris Pelekis, Researcher, PhD student, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
Sotiris Pelekis is a researcher and holds a Master in Electrical and Computer Engineerιng and a Master in Data Science and Machine Learning at the National Technical University of Athens. He has been involved and assumed responsibilities and technical task coordination in several ICT and cross-cutting applied research projects including ones under the Horizon 2020 programme. He is experienced in the cybersecurity domain where he has worked on penetration testing as well as cyber-risk assessment and network behaviour simulation using machine learning and deep learning methods, in the context of the project “SPHINX A Universal Cyber Security Toolkit for Health-Care Industry”. He is also experienced in the energy sector as he has conducted extensive research on sustainability and climate change issues at Datagrid company and has performed numerous energy audits. He has also contributed to the development and maintenance of easykenak web application for energy audits (www.easykenak.gr). Currently he is working on artificial intelligence, time series analysis and software engineering concepts in the context of the project “I-NERGY: Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Energy”. During his career he has mainly focused on the conceptualization and coordination of pilot use cases alongside the development of statistical models, machine learning and deep learning models, and the deployment of relevant applications. He is fluent at programming languages such as Python, R, C and SQL and frameworks such as Docker, Spark and MLflow, constantly enriching his knowledge and skills with modern practices and frameworks. Several results of his work have been published in book chapters and international conference papers.
Marija Borisov, Solutions Developer, Engineenering, Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
Marija holds a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, department: Computer Science. She is enrolled in PhD studies, from 2020 - present, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Computing and Control Engineering. She has been working in ENG for more than five years. She has worked on several EU H2020 projects, such as WiseGRID, Waste4Think, Matrycs, FoodRUS, I-NERGY. She has experience working in the energy sector and field of sustainable economies, developing solutions in various technologies.
We look forward to your presence at this remarkable event!
Yin
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Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
W: www.egi.eu | E: yin.chen(a)egi.eu | M: +31 (0)6 3037 3096 | Skype: yin.chen.egi | Twitter: @yinchen16
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Dear all
We are please to announce a new webinar talk by EISCAT on 28th Jun. EISCAT is an advanced science community with rich experiences of using EGI services. Dr Maria Mihalikova from EISCAT science association will introduce the EISCAT tools developed by integrating EGI services. Please register and don't miss the opportunity to meet the experts and asking their experiences!
Title: Access to the EISCAT tools with help of EGI checkin
Date & Time: Wednesday, 28th June 2023 |14:00 -15:00 CEST
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B9DvncZGRd-3Dd7cQrsfsg#/registr…
Description
The present era of rapid technological advances creates a challenge for data providers and scientists to create and maintain FAIR data and services not just for future operations but also for historical data gathered and analysed with technologies that are slowly phasing out of their usage. GUISDAP is an open-source software package, written in MATLAB, C and Fortran and provided and maintained by EISCAT, for analysis and visualisation of its incoherent scatter radar data as well as for some other radars in the world. One way how to preserve GUISDAP operability and accessibility by the user community is to make it accessible through a Jupyter notebook docker deployment through EISCAT resources and in the frame of an EOSC project. This will help to ensure the FAIRness of EISCAT data by providing tools for reanalysis and visualisation that will be accessible by any potential EISCAT user with the help of EGI check-in technology.
Target audience: e-Infrastructure platform /technology providers
Program:
-- 20 min presentation
-- 20 min demo
-- 20min Q&A
Speaker: Dr Maria Mihalikova, Staff scientist, EISCAT Science association
Dr. Maria Mihalikova is a staff scientist joining the EISCAT team at Headquarters in Kiruna. Maria comes from Slovakia and grew up in Ivanka pri Dunaji near Bratislava. She has a master’s degree in physics with a focus on meteorology and climatology from Comenius University in Bratislava and a PhD in Space Technology from the Luleå Technical University.
After working for a number of years as an aviation meteorologist at the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Maria started her doctoral studies in the Polar Atmospheric Research Program at IRF in Kiruna in 2009. In 2013 Maria got her Phd.
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Training Sessions during EGI2023
#EGI2023 takes place in Poznań, Poland, from June 19th until June 23rd 2023.
Especially on Monday and Friday, you have the possibility to attend several training sessions to improve or refresh your skills on the EGI solutions, or connect with high-qualified specialists in a variety of fields and sectors.
In particular, I would like to bring to your attention the Security Workshop on Friday (23/06) organized by CSIRT.
During this training session, several aspect of operational security will be explored, including the sharing of appropriate intelligence and the conceptual design of a Services Operations Centre (SOC) environment appropriate for cloud infrastructures.
Special rate are also offered for you to attend multiple training sessions.
How does it work?
- Take a look at the programme and define which trainings are of interest for you.
- Through the EGI2023 main registration page, select the suitable 'Single Training Day' ticket.
- In the question form, indicate what trainings you would like to attend. Two weeks before the conference starts you will be asked to confirm/change your selection in case you changed your mind, or anything interesting gets added to the programme.
I have my ticket, what now?
- Sit back and relax! Your trainer will reach out to you before the training about the programme and any useful additional information (prior knowledge, equipment to bring, ...).
- Make sure to indicate yourself as 'attending' in the Whova event app [4] - this is a quick way to receive updates from the organisers (for example if there is a room change).
We're looking forward to seeing you soon!
Yin
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Community Support Officer
EGI Foundation (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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