Challenges and opportunities for Neutral Impartial and Independent Humanitarian Action in a world increasingly characterized by pervasive connectivity and connectivity denials, digital services, adverse cyber operations, debates around digital sovereignty, and global competition for digital infrastructure.
CERNBox is CERN’s flagship cloud collaborative storage platform and it has turned 10 years old.
In this talk we’ll delve into the main pillars that made this platform a success and the pitfalls and lessons learned of running a multi-petabyte platform satisfying the heterogeneous needs of thousands of scientists.
Working with sensitive research data is a challenge, along all steps of the research lifecycle. At the University of Oslo, we are developing and integrating solutions for data capture, storage, analysis and dissemination, to make it a little easier for researchers to work safely with sensitive data. The collection of services are what make up our internally developed research platform, called...
PSDI (Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure) https://www.psdi.ac.uk/ is a part of Digital Research Infrastructures programme in the UK, aiming to accelerate research in physical sciences by connecting various data and computation systems researchers currently use. The need of a data transfer and data sharing service was identified in the early stages of PSDI, followed by a service design...
ByCS Drive is a cloud service based on ownCloud Infinite Scale built for up to 5 million users in 6300 schools.
This talk will give a look at the architecture, focusing on storage, data security and scalability to assure performance under extreme peaks and growing data requirements. A short demo will showcase special compliance measures, the new user interface, and integration with other...
This talk will give an overview of the Nextcloud developments and improvements in the last 12 month. Several noteworthy things happened in the last Nextcloud releases. From architectural improvements to changes on APIs and the sync engine, to usebility and functionality. This Talk will give a full overview.
How ownCloud assures the focus on Higher Education and Science/Research to drive the product development.
Backed by the 20 years of successful development and operation of the largest Italian research e-infrastructure through the Grid, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) has been running for the past three years INFN Cloud, a production-level, integrated and comprehensive cloud-based set of solutions, delivered through distributed and federated infrastructures.
INFN Cloud...
The publication of open research data (ORD) is becoming an integral part of publicly funded research. Scientific publishers, funders and research institutions often require researchers to publish the data and code that is relevant for their articles. This data needs to be citable and published in a repository that follows the FAIR principles. For scientific domains that generate large datasets...
Sunet Drive is Sweden's national data storage solution, and part of the ScienceMesh. It is a federated solution consisting of 54 nodes, one for every Swedish institution, including one node for external users. We will give an up-to-date overview of of Sunet Drive, including
- User and storage development
- New customer on-boarding and...
The DESY Sync&Share Service is based on NextCloud and dCache as underlying storage system. It currently offers several $\mathtt{PiB}$ to customers at DESY and many other laboratories within the Helmholtz Association. Since DESY Sync&Share is also used to store and share scientific data a better integration into the scientific infrastructure is desirable.
Using dCache as backend storage...
In this presentation the goals, strategy and structure of the GÈANT Community Programme will be presented.
Examples of community involvement will be given, with the aim to inform researchers and institutions about the concrete
possibility of support from the GÈANT Community to innovative projects. Examples will be provided of community engagement
initiatives and plans"
A brief update on GÉANT cloud activities which will discuss a few community case studies and highlight the status of the OCRE 2024 tender.
Support of commercial cloud services has become fundamental to many of the NRENs, given that 40 NRENs participate in the OCRE cloud framework, and that the consumption of commercial cloud services by the NREN constituency increases by up to 100% year on year in many countries. Looking into the future, OCRE 2024 is looking at a framework value of €1.5 Bn. The easiest, and most flexible way for...
We are developing the specification of a national service for storage of active research data. Technically, what we’re doing is well known to this community as it is based on nextcloud and EUDAT’s B2Drop.
In this presentation we will elaborate on the national context in which this work is taking place, with focus on the challenges such as organisational structures and resourcing within...
MAX IV Laboratory has operated as a user facility since 2016 and continuously evolving the IT infrastructure to facilitate data collection and enable end-user data analysis possibilities. Jupyterhub running on the bare-metal Kubernetes cluster is one of the primary environments at MAX IV premises aimed to address the challenge of providing secure and shared service, while optimizing access to...
After more than four years of experience in developing dashboards with Jupyter and Voilà [1] and the development of a library that simplifies the creation of user interfaces for compelling interactive visualization, we can say that yes: it is possible to use Jupyter as an advanced development environment for the creation of complex web applications, centred on data and equipped with a simple...
SWAN stands for Service for Web-based ANalysis, also known as CERN's Jupyter service.
The project has undergone a transformative evolution in response to - and to align with - the changes in the upstream Jupyter project. This evolution prompted a simplification of our customizations, enhancing the project maintainability and facilitating deployments beyond CERN.
In this presentation, we will...
This presentation will set the scene for the Campfire session.
The current state of the specification and its latest evolution will be presented, with reference to the ScienceMesh infrastructure and the CS3 community at large.
A number of questions will be raised, which can be discussed in the Panel discussion that will follow the topical lightning talks.
At SURF, we have a large number of cloud environments. But how can you optimally collaborate when users are spread across multiple environments.
Creating a share with a group is much easier, than with several individuals. Our story how we solve this with federated groups.
The OCM protocol has recently introduced a groundbreaking feature known as the "invitation workflow," designed to enhance the discovery of users across diverse institutions. This innovative approach, while effective in facilitating discoverability, is currently dependent on a singular directory of trusted sites.
Drawing inspiration from the proven practices of email protocols over the past...
We give an update on the latest development of the OCM test suite. This includes the switch from Puppeteer to Cypress as a testing framework and the ability to execute tests in CI pipelines. We also present current test coverage and vendor support.
We received funding from NLnet and created a W3C community group. The protocol is now versioned and we are spending effort to document it properly with a specification that every vendor can follow. This will increase the value of OCM to end users, and we hereby invite vendors to get involved in the evolution of the protocol.
After a round table from the main stakeholders (Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile), we open the debate to talk about the future of OCM and its governance
The presentation will give an overview over existing and upcoming FAIR-enabling features in Zenodo and InvenioRDM. Zenodo has through the collaboration with Plazi built up the Biodiversity Literature Repository as a prime example of FAIR data management with domain specific metadata in a general-purpose repository. Zenodo will further soon launch a Zenodo-community together with the European...
FAIR data management has come a long way since its first publication of guiding principles for scientific data management and stewardship in 2016. Many universities and funding bodies have adopted FAIR as a de facto standard for their data management processes, and many publicly available systems have been established to support scientists in their goal of achieving compliance with the...
Scientific advancements increasingly rely on complex computational models fueled by diverse datasets. However, the collaborative sharing of these datasets poses significant challenges, hindering progress of research within scientific communities. This paper addresses the pivotal issue of efficient data sharing among scientists engaged in advanced simulations and computational modeling. ...
CERN produces, analyzes and archives vast amounts of data. To conduct an analysis a lot of software in the form of scripts and code is produced. As the time goes by and new approaches supersede the old ones, the aforementioned artifacts may become hard to understand and setting up and running them can be challenging. This may be a crucial concern when trying to publish the data in an open...
We will be presenting Indico, an event-management system born out of the collaborative spirit at CERN. Initially developed more than 20 years go, to meet the unique demands of the world's largest physics lab, Indico has since evolved and transcended its origins, becoming a globally adopted solution for the organization events of all scales, used in...
Join us for an exciting update from the world of Collabora Online (COOL). Let us show you how users and integrators benefit from using a security focused, truly open-source, online office suite.
In this session we’ll show you why File Sync & Share and LMS provisions are integrating Collabora Online into their products. Hear about the work we’ve done over the past year to improve integration...
Flexibility is an essential skill for teamwork in general, especially in dynamic and challenging situations. Flexibility factor is also of great significance for document collaboration which nowadays is a must for everyone.
Every day we work with numerous office files together with colleagues, team members, various external users, etc. It is important to be able to collaborate on files...
SeaTable is the world leading self-hosted no-code platform. SeaTable enables you to develop and build efficient business process in the shortest possible time. You can easily design your database structure, store any kind of data, define access rights for your team or externals and visualize your data with various charts. Automations help to streamline your work. Digitalization or creation of...
Managing structured data seamlessly alongside files is crucial, especially in research and collaborative projects.
This presentation introduces you to Nextcloud Tables, a tool to blend spreadsheet functionality with database management. With its user-friendly interface, Nextcloud Tables caters to a wide array of professional needs without requiring advanced coding skills.
Discover how...
For those who track the development of EOSC, you’ll remember the first five years of “building EOSC” were devoted to building the initial federation of existing research data infrastructures in Europe and design and implement the first EOSC Core service needed to build a web of FAIR data. All of this activity was conducted through grants calls; e.g., for the abovementioned EOSC Core service,...
Sunet Drive is a national file storage infrastructure for universities and research institutions in Sweden. It is based on a Nextcloud Global Scale setup and is comprised of 54 nodes, one prepared for each institution. This setup ensures data sovereignty while being part of a larger federation, including the ScienceMesh for international collaboration. The setup is duplicated in a test...
We share experiences running the microservices-based ownCloud Infinte Scale software with many instances in a highly scalable virtual architecture.
The second part covers motivation, architecture and results of load testing with K6.
Onedata[1] is a high-performance data management system with a distributed, global infrastructure that enables users to access heterogeneous storage resources worldwide. It supports various use cases ranging from personal data management to data-intensive scientific computations. Onedata has a fully distributed architecture that facilitates the creation of a hybrid cloud infrastructure with...
This year's releases of iRODS 4.3.1 as well as standalone APIs exposing iRODS systems via HTTP and S3 help new users use their existing, familiar tools to integrate with an iRODS Zone. This talk will cover the requirements, design, and initial releases of these new APIs.
This paper proposes the development of a closed-domain Question-Answering (QA) system for LBL ScienceIT, using the ScienceIT website as the data source. The focus is on evaluating different models, specifically two fine-tuned pre-trained language models and three retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models. Through this comparison, insights into the performance of these models, based on...
The presentation focuses on the environmental impact of the technology industry, challenging the assumption that it is inherently eco-friendly. It highlights the significant carbon emissions from the tech sector, projected to triple by 2040 without intervention by the growth of AI. The content then shifts to the positive impacts of technology in various sectors like healthcare, education, and...
In this presentation an overview of the GEANT community programme will be provided
