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news from the EGI communityISSUE 19APRIL 2015

STORIES

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VIP: medical imaging for the long tail

10 Welcome to Lisbon!

01 EGI joins the Big Datava Value Association

Chipster: NGS tools in the FedCloud

COMPETENCE CENTRE SPECIAL

LifeWatch: a CC for the environment

The EISCAT_3D Competence Centre

The MoBrain Competence Centre

DARIAH meets EGI

In this edition of Inspired, we turn our special attention tothe EGI-Engage project, with an overview by TizianaFerrari and four stories dedicated to ResearchInfrastructures integrated in the project as CompetenceCentres:

> Alexandre Bonvin writes about MoBrain> Jesús Marco introduces LifeWatch> The DARIAH team presents their plans for Arts &

Humanities> Ingemar Häggström focuses on EISCAT_3DWe also have an overview of the upcoming EGI Conference

in Lisbon (18-22 May 2015) and:> Diego Scardaci writes about an open source platform for

data analysis> Tristan Glatard presents the Virtual Imaging Platfirm, a

science gateway for the long tail of science

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1Inspired // Issue #19 April 2015

EGI becomes a member of the Big Data ValueAssociation

On March 29, EGI became amember of the Big Data ValueAssociation (BDVA), a publicprivate partnership created toboost the value of European BigData research.The BDVA is a non–for-profitorganisation with 24 foundingmembers from large and SMEindustry and research andseveral universities acrossEurope.The association is part of theEuropean Commission’s DigitalAgenda plan to generate value(jobs, growth, income) from theresearch data produced inEuropean facilities. As a fullmember, EGI will be involved inthe BDVA’s meetings andworking groups.Yannick Legré, managingdirector of EGI.eu, says: “The

experience accumulated overten years by the NGIs, CERN andEMBL will be of big value to theassociation. Together as EGI, wewill contribute to BDVA’sstrategic research andinnovation agenda.”He adds: “BDVA offers anexcellent opportunity for EGI toput its human and technicalassets at the service ofindustries and SMEs acrossEurope to seize and acceleratethe Big Data value chainmomentum.”In parallel with the BDVAmembership, EGI has recentlyjoined:> The Research Data Alliance> Knowledge 4 Innovation> ERF-AISBL, the Association ofEuropean-level ResearchFacilities

More information

Big Data Value Associationhttp://www.bdva.eu/

The Research Data Alliancehttps://rd-alliance.org/

Knowledge 4 Innovationhttp://www.knowledge4innovation.eu/

Association of European-level Research Facilitieshttp://www.erf-aisbl.eu/


Computing and storage havebecome key to research in avariety of biomedical fields, forexample, to compute numericalsimulations for research inmedical imaging or cancertherapy, or to automate theanalysis of digital images inneurosciences or cardiology. TheVirtual Imaging Platform (VIP) isa web portal for medical simu-lation and image data analysis. Itleverages resources available inthe biomed Virtual Organisationof the European Grid Infrastru-cture to offer an open service toacademic researchers worldwide.

Technical challengesVIP aims to mask the infrastru-cture and enable a userexperience as transparent aspossible. This means that VIPhas to take decisions as auto-matically, quickly, and reliably aspossible regarding infrastructuralchallenges such as:(1) the placement of data files onthe storage sites,(2) the splitting and distributionof applications on the computingsites,(3) the termination ofmisbehaving runs.We heavily rely on the DIRACservice provided by FranceGrilles (the NGI of France) totake such decisions in thechanging environment of EGI. Inaddition, we have developed'non-clairvoyant’ techniques tospecifically address thechallenges of the applicationsprovided in VIP.

The Virtual Imaging Platform for medical simulationand data analysis on EGI

Tristan Glatard describes a new science gateway for the long tail of science

Security mattersSecurity is another challenge inan open platform such as VIP. InVIP, users can only access a setof predefined applications veri-fied by administrators. Access toapplications is controlled bygroup memberships that may beopen or private, for instance tosupport applications with arestrictive license. The VIP portalexposes home directories thatare private to users, and groupdirectories shared among groupmembers. Finally, as we areaware that any system may becompromised regardless of itstechnical quality, VIP monitorsand traces all the operationsperformed by its users, forinstance data transfers andcomputation.

A platform for the long tail ofscienceWith VIP, researchers from allover the world can accessimportant amounts of computingresources and storage with norequired technical skills beyondthe use of a web browser. EGI is

More information

Virtual Imaging Platformhttp://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/vip

Tristan Glatard is a CNRSresearcher based at theUniversity of Lyon.

VIP referenceT. Glatard et al. 2013. A VirtualImaging Platform for multi-modality medical imagesimulation, IEEE Transactionson Medical Imaging, vol. 32,no. 1, pp. 110-118.

essential to the success of VIPbecause it provides an openinfrastructure relievingresearchers from the burden ofnegotiating resource allocationswith computing centres. Such anopen policy enables the supplyof services to the long tail ofscience, i.e. to the large numberof groups and projects ofmodest size such an individualmasters or PhD project, proof-of-concept studies, and so on.

VIP in numbers

> Number of users: 754 (registered as of April 2015)> Active users in 2014: 324> Available applications: ~15> Jobs executed in 2014: 1.7 million> CPU time consumed in 2014: 326 years> Publications by VIP users since 2013:

10 articles in journals, 12 articles in conferences> Most used VIP applications:

GATE -- Freesurfer -- FSL> Case study: Finding biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis

http://go.egi.eu/MSbiomarker


The EGI-Engage project wassubmitted as a proposal to theEINFRA-1-2014 call led by EGI.euand involving 43 beneficiariesfrom across Europe, the USAand six countries in the Asia-Pacific region.The project's mission is toaccelerate the implementationof the Open Science Commons(OSC) vision, where researchersfrom all disciplines have easyand open access to theinnovative digital services, data,knowledge and expertise theyneed for collaborative andexcellent research.The OSC is grounded on threepillars:> the e-Infrastructure Commons,an ecosystem of services thatconstitute the foundation layerof distributed infrastructures;> the Open Data Commons,where observations, results andapplications are increasinglyavailable for scientific researchand for anyone to use andreuse; and> the Knowledge Commons, inwhich communities have sharedownership of knowledge,participate in the co-development of software andare technically supported toexploit state-of-the-art digitalservices.EGI-Engage will expand the

The EGI-Engage project

Tiziana Ferrari introduces the goals and plans of EGI-Engage

capabilities offered to scientists(e.g. improved cloud or dataservices) and the spectrum of itsuser base by engaging with largeResearch Infrastructures (RIs),the long tail of science andindustry/SMEs.The main engagementinstrument will be a network ofeight Competence Centres,where Research Infrastructureswill join forces with NationalGrid Initiatives (NGIs),technology and serviceproviders will join forces tocollect requirements, integratecommunity-specific applicationsinto state-of-the-art services,foster interoperability across e-Infrastructures, and evolveservices through a user-centricdevelopment model. The projectwill also coordinate the NGIefforts to support the long tail ofscience by developing ad hocaccess policies and by providingservices and resources that willlower barriers and learningcurves.

The Competence Centres(CCs)

The eight CCs were set up tosupport high-impactResearch Infrastructures andcommunities by jointdevelopment of customisedservices for these based oncore EGI capabilities, by userengagement and training.

They are:> ELIXIRhttp://www.elixir-europe.org/> BBMRIhttp://bbmri-eric.eu/> MoBrainhttp://www.wenmr.eu> LifeWatchhttp://www.lifewatch.eu/> DARIAHhttp://dariah.eu/en.html> EISCAT_3Dhttps://www.eiscat3d.org/> EPOShttp://www.epos-eu.org/> Disaster Mitigation

EGI-Engage - Fact Sheet

Full name: Engaging the Research Community towards an OpenScience CommonsWebsite: http://go.egi.eu/engStart & end dates: March 2015 – August 2017Open Science Commons: http://go.egi.eu/osce

EGI-Engage is co-funded by the Horizon 2020 FrameworkProgramme of the European Union under grant number654142.

The mission: Accelerate the implementation of the OpenScience Commons by expanding the capabilities of a Europeanbackbone of federated services for compute, storage, data,communication, knowledge and expertise, complementingcommunity-specific capabilities.


EGI-Engage objectives

1: Ensure the continued coordination of the EGI Community instrategy and policy development, engagement, technical usersupport and operations of the federated infrastructure inEurope and worldwide.2: Evolve the EGI Solutions, related business models and accesspolicies for different target groups aiming at an increasedsustainability of these outside of project funding. The solutionswill be offered to large and medium size RIs, small researchcommunities, the long tail of science, education, industry andSMEs.3: Offer and expand an e-Infrastructure Commons solution4: Prototype an open data platform and contribute to theimplementation of the European Big Data Value.5: Promote the adoption of the current EGI services and extendthem with new capabilities through user co-development

EGI-Engage timeline

September 2014 – Theproject was submitted as aproposal to the EINFRA-1-2014 call led by EGI.eu andinvolving 43 beneficiariesfrom across Europe, the USAand six countries in the Asia-Pacific region.January 2015 – EGI-Engage issuccessfully reviewed by theEuropean Commission with ascore of 15/15.March 2015 – Start of theproject.April 2015 – Grantagreement signed (#654142)18 May 2015 – Kick-offmeeting at the EGIConference in Lisbon

EGI-Engage will broaden theadoption of a federated identitymanagement, will extendaccounting to include newservices and types of resources,and will provide tools for ServiceLevel Agreements (SLA), servicediscovery and allocation in afederated environment. The EGIFederated Cloud and itsoperations will evolve to provideIaaS, PaaS and SaaS, and theHPC capacity and capabilities willbe expanded by federating theaccess to distributed acceleratedcomputing co-processors.Publication, use and reuse ofopen data will be facilitated.EGI-Engage will evolve solutionsand their related businessmodels with approachestargeted at each user group forimproved sustainability andintegration with other infrastru-ctures in Europe and worldwide.The project will develop businessrelationships with industry andSMEs and provide an innovationspace where general purposecompute and data services canbe offered to develop big datatechnologies, applications andfoster reuse of research data.The technical input to standards,policy and proceduredevelopments, software andservice innovation, businessmodel innovation and know-howproduced by the project will beoffered to user groups, ResearchInfrastructures, industry/SMEs,service providers, fundingagencies and decision/policymakers.

In summary, what we puttogether is an ambitiousproject that will push ustowards new grounds. EGI-Engage will strategicallyadvance EGI in key areas:> user engagement with theprivate sector and ResearchInfrastructures on the ESFRIroadmap,> technical capabilities,> business development,> and cooperation with e-Infrastructures of Europeandimension.By the time the project ends inAugust 2017, we will have anexpanded set of capabilities tosupport a European backboneof federated e-Infrastructureservices for research. And theresults will be a huge steptowards the implementation ofthe Open Science Commons.


Chipster is a user-friendlyanalysis software for high-throughput data developed byCSC, the Finnish IT Center forScience and ELIXIR node.Chipster contains over 340analysis tools for next generationsequencing (NGS), microarray,proteomics and sequence data.Users can save and shareautomatic analysis workflows,and visualize data interactivelyusing a built-in genome browserand many other visualizations.Chipster's client software usesJava Web Start to install itselfautomatically and it connects tocomputing servers for the actualanalysis. Chipster is open sourceand the server environment isavailable as a virtual machineimage.Collaboration between theChipster team and EGI started in2014 in the context of GenomeAnalysis and Protein Foldingvirtual team led by AfonsoDuarte (ITQB-UNL, Portugal).One of the objectives of this VTwas to identify interesting toolsand scientific applications notyet supported by EGI and to seewhat is needed to make themavailable. Considering itsfeatures and its potential toattract new communities to EGI,Chipster was one of the selectedapplications. The EGI UserSupport Team started to work incollaboration with the Chipsterteam to deploy and integrate thetool in the EGI Federated Cloud.I talked to Eija Korpelainen,Chipster Product Manager atCSC, and she said:

Chipster: tools for Next Generation Sequencing in theEGI Federated Cloud

Diego Scardaci writes about an open source platform for data analysis

“Life scientists face three majorrequirements when analysingnext generation sequencingdata:> Installation of a large numberof software and reference data,which need to be kept up todate.> Unix and programming skills> Computing platform withsufficient CPU and memory.The Chipster virtual machineprovides a comprehensivecollection of up-to-date analysistools and Ensembl-basedreference data in a ready-to-useformat. The data and the toolscan be used either on commandline, or via an intuitive graphicuser interface, which alsoprovides powerful visualizations,workflow functionality, andanalysis metadata tracking.While Chipster has become verypopular, many users andinstitutes in Europe are stillstruggling to set up their ownserver as they lack a suitablecomputing platform. Ability tolaunch Chipster easily in theFedCloud holds great promise tosolve this problem.”Porting activities started in theautumn of 2014. The INFN Baricloud provider offered itsresources for this prototypingphase and actively participatedto the support activities throughits team of cloud experts.We completed the integration inearly 2015, exploiting differentfeatures offered by the FedCloud:> the Virtual Appliancemarketplace: to store a

More information

About Chipsterhttp://chipster.csc.fi/index.shtml

Instructions to get started:http://chipster.csc.fi/access.shtml

FedCloud compliant Chipster VMimage> contextualisation: we exploitedthis feature to properly configurethe Chipster service on the flyduring the VM starting time> the OCCI interface: to managethe Chipster VMs:> the block storage: to store theChipster datasets in the EGIFedCloud and share them withdifferent running Chipster VMsthrough a NFS

In productionChipster moved to productionafter successful conclusion ofthe prototyping phase. TheINFN-Bari site committed tosupport Chipster also during theproduction phase, furthermoreother two cloud providers,CESNET and GRNET, offeredtheir resources for Chipster andthey will be able to support itshortly.Now that Chipster is ready, it istime to spread the word andoffer this service to the manyscientific communities that couldbenefit of its integration in theEGI infrastructure!


Today’s translational researchera calls for innovative solutionsto enable researchers andclinicians to build bridgesbetween the microscopic(molecular) and macroscopic(human) scales. This requiresbuilding both transversal andvertical connections betweentechniques, researchers andclinicians to provide them withan optimal e-Science toolbox totackle societal challenges relatedto health.The main objective of theMoBrain Competence Centre(CC) is to lower barriers forscientists to access modern e-Science solutions from micro tomacro scales. MoBrain builds ongrid- and cloud-based infrastru-ctures and on the existingexpertise available in WeNMR,N4U and technology providers(NGIs and other institutions,OSG). This initiative aims toserve its user communities,related ESFRI projects (e.g.

The MoBrain Competence Centre

Alexandre Bonvin writes about the CC set up to serve translational research fromMolecule to Brain

INSTRUCT) and in the long termthe Human Brain Project (FETFlagship), and strengthen theEGI services offering.By integrating molecularstructural biology and medicalimaging services and data,MoBrain will kick-start the deve-lopment of a larger, integrated,global science virtual researchenvironment for life and brainscientists worldwide. The mini-projects defined in MoBrain aregeared toward facilitating thisoverall objective, each withspecific objectives to reinforceexisting services, develop newsolutions and pave the path toglobal competence centre andvirtual research environment fortranslational research frommolecular to brain.There are already many servicesand support/training mechanisms

More information

WeNMRhttp://www.wenmr.eu

N4Uhttp://neugrid4you.eu

Alexandre Bonvin is aprofessor of computationalstructural biology in theUniversity of Utrecht (NL)and was the coordinator ofthe WeNMR project.Alexandre is now leading theMoBrain CC under EGI-Engage.

in place that will be furtherdeveloped, optimized andmerged during the operation ofthe CC, building onto andcontributing to the EGI serviceoffering. MoBrain will produce aworking environment that willbe better tailored to the enduser needs than any of itsindividual components. It willprovide an extended portfolio oftools and data in a user-friendlye-laboratory, with a directrelevance for neuroscience,starting from the quantificationof the molecular forces, proteinfolding, biomolecularinteractions, drug design andtreatments, improved diagnosticand the full characterization ofevery pathological mechanism ofbrain diseases through bothphenomenological as well asmechanistic approaches.

MoBrain's partners

The MoBrain partners are:> Utrecht University, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research,the Netherlands> Consorzio Interuniversitario Risonanze Magnetiche DiMetalloproteine Paramagnetiche, Florence University, Italy.> Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (and SpanishNGI)> Science and Technology Facility Council, UK> Provincia Lombardo Veneta Ordine Ospedaliero diSanGiovanni di Dio – Fatebenefratelli, Italy> GNUBILA, France> Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, Italy> SURFsara (Dutch NGI)> CESNET (Czech NGI)> Open Science Grid (US)


LifeWatch is a European ResearchInfrastructure set up to addressproblems in biodiversity andecosystems, and to supportdecision making in environmentalmanagement. LifeWatch willhave its headquarters in Seville,Spain, and Spain will also beresponsible for the constructionof the distributed e-Infrastructure.Italy will implement the servicecentre and the Netherlands willsupport the Virtual Labs. Allcommon services will be sharedby the different LifeWatchnational initiatives.The scientific and managerialquestions that LifeWatch aims toanswer can benefit from BigData techniques, for example, tosupport to real-time datastreams or to handle the post-processing of large volumes ofdiverse data from multipledisciplines: meteorology,geophysics, hydrology, chemistry,social and also life sciences.The LifeWatch CompetenceCentre (LW CC) will provide thesupport to use these techniquesin the EGI framework, exploitingthe experience being developedwithin the EGI community. It willbe also useful as a collection ofbest practices that can beoffered to local LifeWatchnational initiatives.

LifeWatch: a use caseThe first use case in LW CC willexplore an ongoing experienceby LifeWatch Belgium on marinebiodiversity research.This field of research is verydependent on specific data

LifeWatch: a Competence Centre for the environment

Jesús Marco introduces a CC geared to support scientific problems andenvironmental management

types: species identification andbehaviour, occurrence, biomass,abundance and many otherssimilar. For a long time thecollection of this type of data hasbeen mainly a manual processthat includes sampling andsample preparation, counting,weighing, database input, and soon. The use of biosensors andsensor networks for in-situobservation seems to be one ofthe most promising approachesas this method eliminates theneed for taking physical samplingand avoids labour intensivesample preparation processes;moreover the dataflow can beautomated and requires lessworkload from the scientists.Following this lead, the FlandersMarine Institute (VLIZ) hasstarted the installation of anumber of biosensors on boardof the Research Vessel SimonStevin, as part of the FlandersMarine LifeWatch Observatory.This project requires the use of apowerful e-Infrastructure able tohandle about 50Tb of data peryear and the computationalpower to collect video andimages in quasi real.The VLIZ use case is a goodexample of how LifeWatchprovides access to data (fromdifferent domains), analyticaltools and computational facili-ties to equip scientists with astate-of-the-art virtual researchenvironment for their studies.

More information

LifeWatch ERIChttp://www.lifewatch.eu/

LifeWatch Marine VREhttp://marine.lifewatch.eu/

Flanders Marine Institutehttp://www.vliz.be/

Jesús Marco is a researcherat IFCA-CSIC in Santanderand the NGI InternationalLiaison for IBERGRID. Hecoordinates the LifeWatchcompetence centre.

Citizen scienceAnother key ingredient of LW CCis citizen science. In the contextof biodiversity and ecologicalresearch, our idea is to explore avery ambitious possibility: tosupport the direct contributionof citizens contributing observa-tion records, in particular thoseincluding sounds or imagesuploading.We will explore the integrationand deployment of patternrecognition tools on EGI specificresources, including for exampleservers with GPUs or otherrelevant hardware for image/sound recognition, to support anassisted tag of the recordssubmitted by the citizens.


The Digital Research Infrastru-cture for the Arts and Humanities(DARIAH) aims to enhance andsupport digitally-enabledresearch across the Arts andHumanities by offering aportfolio of services centred onEuropean research communities.The DARIAH e-Infrastructure is asocial and technological infra-structure - it aims to bridge thegap between traditional anddigital Humanities and Artsthrough a connected network oftools, information, knowledgeand people across the broadspectrum of the Digital Humani-ties and Arts.DARIAH uses standards and bestpractices, allowing collaborationswith several research infrastru-ctures and offering opportunitiesfor innovative research. For thevarious affiliated projects,services for data sharing anddigital publishing will be offered,alongside technical systems forpersistent identification,authentication and long-termpreservation.Partners contribute to the DARIAHcommunity with a diverse rangeof national activities, services orcontent. These ’in-kind’ contribu-tions can be divided over a rangeof contribution types: e.g. Access,Expertise, Interoperability,Content Hosting, Tools andSoftware, Training and Data.By bringing together nationalactivities from several countries,DARIAH will be able to offer abroad spectrum of servicesincluding training initiatives, suchas summer schools and trans-national curricula, a knowledgerepository with standards and

DARIAH meets EGI

The DARIAH team presents the plans for a Competence Centre to support the Artsand Humanities

good practices for digital assetmanagement, and guidance onrepository certification anddigitisation processes.DARIAH partners also contributein more than 20 working groupsdivided over 4 Virtual Compe-tency Centres (VCC’s): e-Infrastru-cture, Research and EducationLiaison, Scholarly ContentManagement and Advocacy,Outreach and Impact.

DARIAH and EGIThe cooperation with EGI will bedirected by the e-InfrastructureVCC and a Working group will befounded for this purpose.Cooperation with EGI is impor-tant for DARIAH.DARIAH offers a portfolio ofservices and activities centeredon research communities. Itdevelops a researchinfrastructure for sharing andsustaining digital Arts andHumanities knowledge.EGI can help to boost theseactivities because a lot of e-Humanities research is based onlarge corpora and by their rawnon-structured nature hugecomputer processor capacity.Researchers will use DARIAH to:> find and use a wide range ofresearch data across Europe> exchange knowledge, expertise,methodologies, and practices

About DARIAH

The DARIAH-ERIC wasestablished on August, 15th2014, by 15 FoundingMembers: Austria, Belgium,Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark,France (host), Germany,Greece, Ireland, Italy,Luxembourg, Malta, TheNetherlands, Serbia andSlovenia.http://www.dariah.eu/

About the authors

Henk Harmsen, ChiefIntegration Officer (DANS,Den Haag, NL)

Tibor Kalman, Co-ChairVirtual Competency Centre 1e-Infrastructures (GWDG,Göttingen, DE)

Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Co-Chair Virtual CompetencyCentre 1 e-Infrastructures(ÖAW, Wien, AT)

across domains and disciplines> ensure that accepted standardsare adopted and best practicesare followed> experiment and innovate incollaboration with other scholars.


EISCAT_3D is a system of distri-buted phased array radars thatenable comprehensive three-dimensional observations of theatmosphere and ionosphere inthe European Arctic regions.The EISCAT_3D system will bebuilt in three remote sites, all inNorthern Scandinavia at adistance in the order of 100 kmfrom the main core site.The entire system is expected tooperate continuously in a num-ber of modes with differentdegrees of activity, and is readyto flexibly respond to spaceweather events and otherphenomena that occur atunpredictable time. The lifetimeof EISCAT_3D is projected to be30 years.

EISCAT_3D CompetenceCentreThe design of EISCAT_3D opensup opportunities for physiciststo explore many new researchfields. On the other hand, it alsointroduces significant challengesin handling large-scaleexperimental data which will bemassively generated at greatspeeds and volumes. Thischallenge is typically referred toas a big data problem andrequires solutions from beyondthe capabilities of conventionaldatabase technologies.Within the ENVRI FP7 project, apilot study was setup to identifyexisting services and newservices that can tackle theEISCAT_3D big data challenge. Acollaboration was formed amongEISCAT_3D, EGI and the EUDATinfrastructures, and the firststeps towards the EISCAT_3D big

The EISCAT_3D Competence Centre

Ingemar Häggström introduces the goals of the activity

data strategy were taken.The result of the pilot, a smallset of EISCAT level 1 (rawsamples) and level 2 (spectraldata) data was transferred intoEUDAT and the EGI FederatedClouds. A test portal was setupwith crude MetaData parametersand was able, using OpenSearch,to deliver data from the differentstorages within the clouds aswell as from the EISCAT archive.The access rights of the userswere taken into account basedon EISCATs normal IP rights aswell as certificates.The pilot started as part of thecase study will be developed intoa fully functional portal withimproved possibilities to accessand work with the archived dataof EISCAT. The objective of theprojects is to build a common e-Infrastructure to meet therequirements of a big scientificdata system such as EISCAT_3Dwith a demonstration of thedeveloped e-Infrastructuresupporting the EISCAT sciencecommunity in their acquisition,curation, access to and processingof the data.The EISCAT_3D competencecentre will train data scientists

More information

EISCAT_3Dhttps://www.eiscat3d.se/node

Ingemar Häggström, Headof Operations at EISCAT, isleader of the EISCAT_3DCompetence Centre. He isresponsible for the design ofthe main radar modes,operation planning, dataarchive and its reduction intophysical quantities of theionosphere.

who can explore new approachesto solve problems via new data-centric way of conceptualising,organising and carrying outresearch activities, which willlead to new discoveries andsignificant scientific break-throughs. The system will berobust and allow refinementsand further developments of theaccess of data. Important is alsothe training of the users, withvaluable feedback, making theupdated system ready for wideruse. The system is also expectedto lay a foundation for thedevelopment of a data archivefor EISCAT_3D.

More information

18-22 May 2015 - Lisbon,Portugal

EGI Conference 2015websitehttp://conf2015.egi.eu

Registrationhttp://go.egi.eu/reg2015

Timetablehttp://go.egi.eu/c15

Postershttp://go.egi.eu/posters

Demoshttp://go.egi.eu/demos

Speakershttp://go.egi.eu/speakers

Open Science Commonshttp://go.egi.eu/osce


The EGI Conference 2015 isdedicated to the theme: Engagingthe Research Community towardsan Open Science Commons andwill be hosted by EGI.eu andIBERGRID, a partnershipbetween the PortugueseNational Distributed ComputingInfrastructure (INCD) and theSpanish National Grid Initiative.The event will provide a greatopportunity for researchcollaborations and e-Infrastru-cture providers to share theirtechnical roadmaps, discuss newemerging requirements andopportunities of collaboration,and in this way to innovate andgrow.The main theme of the first daywill be the EGI-Engage project,set up to expand the capabilitiesof a European backbone offederated e-Infrastructureservices for research, and itspartner Research Infrastructures.The EGI-Engage competencecentres will be the focus of theafternoon session chaired byGergely Sipos, TechnicalOutreach Manager at EGI.eu,with talks by:> Rafael Jiménez, from ELIXIR> Alexandre Bonvin, fromMoBrain> Jesús Marco, from LifeWatch> Eric Yen, from the DisasterMitigation group> Ingemar Häggeström, fromEISCAT_3D> Daniele Bailo, from EPOS> Petr Holub, from BBMRI

Welcome to Lisbon!

The EGI Conference 2015 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, between 18-22 May

On Tuesday the conference willhost a day-long session aboutthe Open Science Commons,what it is, what it means andwhere can it take us in thefuture. The goal of the workshopwill be to discuss withrepresentatives from fundingagencies, policy makers, dataarchiving organizations,knowledge institutions andresearch infrastructures howthey can contribute to thedevelopment of an OpenScience Commons.On Wednesday we will have aday dedicated to theimplementation of the OpenScience Commons, with sessionsfocussing on:> Data licencing and policies,chaired by Chris Morris> EGI services to supportindividual researchers or smallcollaborations> EGI Marketplace: goals andrequirementsThe rest of the week is organisedaround technical sessionsdesigned to bring togetherResearch Infrastructures anduser communities with EGI’sexperts, to discuss themes ofcommon interest:> Tuesday, 19 May: Cloud IaaS(compute and storage)> Wednesday, 20 May: CloudPlatforms> Thursday, 21 May: Open DataCloud Platforms> Friday, 22 May: AAI

See you in Lisbon!

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