CERNBox is key enabler service for users at CERN and beyond. The service is used by more than 37K users and stores over 15PB of data, representing all the user communities at the laboratory.
In this talk we will explain the current status of the service, the challenges we faced in 2021 and we look into the future: CERNBox as the gateway for heterogeneous storage spaces at CERN and beyond.
Sunet is currently establishing Sunet Drive as their solution to store and share large amounts of scientific data. The architecture is based on a global scale setup of Nextcloud, where each university and college gets an own node, which then can be customized. The underlying storage infrastructure is based on S3 containers, and each university can manage and assign new buckets depending on...
With the announcement of ownCloud Infinite Scale, a new era was born for ownCloud and its community. In this talk we will explain the big picture behind the new product generation and shed light on how it will accompany and support organizations on their data strategy. Going forward we'll talk about differences to the classic ownCloud product, celebrate the achievements since the initial Tech...
The Invitation workflow is one of the elementary scenario on how to enable file sharing among users from different EFSS systems. Invitation workflow eliminates the necessity of knowing the exact identity of the user (share receiver) in the target EFSS system. You can generate a share invitation and distribute it via email or distribute the link via any other channel, chat app, etc. The target...
OCM assumes the sender of a share is a specific user.
But in some situations it would be useful to think of
shares as owned by a group. Would this be a feature
we could add to OCM? What would be needed? What issues
can we foresee?
See also https://github.com/cs3org/OCM-API/issues/53
Imagining a new Internet architecture enables us to explore new networking concepts without the constraints imposed by the current infrastructure. What are the benefits of a multi-path inter-domain routing protocol that finds dozens of paths? What about a data plane without inter-domain forwarding tables on border routers? What secure systems can we build if a router can derive a symmetric key...
ScienceMesh (sciencemesh.io) is an interoperable research platform developed for the European Open Science Cloud by the cs3mesh4eosc.eu project.
ScienceMesh enables seamless sharing and collaboration on data between sites running different EFSS platforms (Owncloud, Seafile and Nextcloud).
In this presentation we will give a summary of the status of the integration with EFSS platforms...
This contribution reports on the recent revamping of ScienceBox: The container-based stack for science with EOS, CERNBox, and SWAN services.
ScienceBox has been rebuilt from its foundations using modern cloud-native technologies for better service configuration and improved reliability, without compromising on deployment flexibility. Rethinking the whole package also allowed for better...
Come and hear how Collabora Online can deliver scalable, secure, on-premise editing of your documents with a simple, easy to deploy and manage architecture.
Hear about the work we've done to improve both server and client performance and scalability over the last year, with many startling improvements for users.
Hear about our User Experience improvements, from bring faster native,...
In this presentation I will give an overview of the improvements that happened in SeaTable in the last year.
In the last 12 month SeaTable put focus on the development of a new archiving backend, that allow millions of records per base.
At the same time the second priority was to add more option for data visualization and automation.
SeaTable is like a lego kit that enables you to...
REVA is an implementation of CS3 APIs which has become a key component of several systems:
1) CERNBox service (where it was originally developed)
2) Interoperability Platform (IOP) for ScienceMesh with 3rd party connectors to Owncloud, Seafile and Nextcloud
3) Core module and dependency of ownCloud Infinite Scale
A roadmap and agreement on governance is needed to define the direction...
The CS3 community and the reference implementation Reva was started a few years ago, and meanwhile the community has grown significantly. Code- and other contributions are coming in frequently. ownCloud has based it's completely new product ownCloud Infinite Scale on Reva and took a significant share on Reva and other projects of the CS3 community as well.
This talk discusses how the recent...
The CERNBox service is currently backed by 13PB of EOS storage distributed across more than 3,000 drives. EOS has proven to be a reliable and highly performing backend throughout. On the other hand, the CERN Storage Group also operates CephFS, which has been previously evaluated in combination with EOS as a potential solution for large scale physics data taking [1]. This work seeks to further...
CERN Storage team has been experimenting with unified storage environments for HTC, HPC and interactive computing.
Practical examples at the prototyping and experimenting stage will be presented:
1. Easier access to user data in HPC storage (CEPHFS) via Sync/Share
2. Integration of HPC storage with the web-based analysis service environment
3. Open Source Storage backend synergy:...
Collaborative Data Science becomes increasingly important, as organizations continue to become more data-driven, and Data Science projects/models become more complex. In the report Critical Capabilities for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms (March 2021) Gartner predicts, that in near future collective intelligence in Data Science and cloud-based AI infrastructure will be among...
When working on the spaces feature we reorganized reva's internal path semantics. While the current global path based namespace looks efficient, it ties namespace organization to a single instance. This prevents true federation. By replacing absolute paths with relative paths and a corresponding root we can delegate building a user individual namespace to the clients. This allows them to...
ScienceMesh is an interoperable research platform developed for the EOSC, that enables seamless sharing and collaboration on data between sites running different EFSS platforms (Nextcloud, OwnCloud and Seafile). In this presentation we will give a summary of the status of the integration with of these EFSS platforms into the Science Mesh and outlook for 2022
As a subcontractor to the CS3MESH4EOSC project, Ponder Source developed a bridge that allows existing Nextcloud sites to join ScienceMesh.
This talk will show how it works, and why you as a Nextcloud site will want to join ScienceMesh.
The status of the integration of Science Mesh with OwnCloud EFSS will be explained.
This presentation explores what is the role of digital infrastructures in the FAIR movement? How can we improve the adoption of digital infrastructures by researchers? Presentation done by ESADE Business School, which leads the Science Mesh "Assessment of Business Impact" task.
Besides providing data sharing, commercial cloud-based file-sharing services (e.g., Dropbox) also enforce access control, i.e. permit users to decide who can access which data.
In this work, we advocate the separation between the sharing of data and the access control function. We specifically promote an overlay approach that provides end-to-end encryption and empowers the end users with the...
On the highest level, we are presenting different views to problems and different views to solutions related to
$$(c)\textrm{ Cloud}, (s_1) \textrm{ Storage}, (s_2) \textrm{ Synchronization}, (s_3) \textrm{ Sharing}.$$ To achieve this goal, we are presenting a merge of two actors with different background and different philosophy: $$ Academic $$ approach to development of a storage...
This year the CERNBox team organised the 1st CERNBox User Forum.
This forum allowed the community to meet the CERNBox team and share their experiences and use-cases, engaging with them in this period of remote working.
In this talk we'll talk about our motivations for organising this gathering and how we deal with the vast amount of user feedback.
This talk will be of special interest...
The larger log files become, the more difficult it is to keep track of them. SeaTable can be an ideal solution here, because as a database solution it has no problems to hold hundreds of thousands of rows and at the same time it offers multiple visualization options to find what you are looking for.
In this presentation I will demonstrate the possibilities of log analysis with SeaTable.
Web accessibility is often understood as making websites accessible to e.g. blind people. Due to extra efforts and because it's prescribed by law, implementing accessibility measures is often not the most popular UX task.
On the other hand, accessibility advocates fiercely argue to put more effort into this - despite the presumably small target audience.
In my talk I will speak about how...
Onedata [1] is a distributed, global, high-performance data management system, which provides transparent and unified access to globally distributed storage resources and supports a wide range of use cases from personal data management to data-intensive scientific computations. Due to its fully distributed architecture, Onedata allows for creation of complex hybrid-cloud infrastructure...
Content collaboration is an essential component of modern companies. Using WOPI protocols, companies can allow employees to directly edit their cloud files in the web browser.
Microsoft has allowed the editing of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files within a web browser for several years, but the company using this feature was initially required to host their own Microsoft Office Online Server...
