La Call `Virtual Research Environments`

La Call 'Virtual Research
Environments'
Giuseppe Andronico, Roberto Barbera
Dati preliminari
Titolo della call
Tipo di azione
Budget
Deadline
• e-Infrastructures for virtual research environments
(VRE)
• Research and innovation actions
• 42 M€
• 14/01/2015, 17:00 Brussels time
Specific Challenge
There is yet considerable potential and room for development
in the use of virtual research environments (VRE).
to address this challenge by supporting capacity building in
interdisciplinary research communities to empower researchers through
development and deployment of service-driven digital research environments,
services and tools tailored to their specific needs.
VRE should:
• integrate resources across all layers of the e-infrastructure (networking,
computing, data, software, user interfaces)
• foster cross-disciplinary data interoperability
• provide functions allowing data citation and promoting data sharing and trust.
Scope
Each VRE should
abstract from the
underlying einfrastructures using:
• standardised building blocks and workflows
• well documented interfaces, in particular regarding APIs
• interoperable components.
Over time VREs will be composed of:
• generic services delivered by e-infrastructures
• domain specific services co-developed and co-operated by:
• Researchers
• technology and e-infrastructure providers
• possibly commercial vendors.
Scope
The VRE proposals should clearly identify and build on
requirements from real use cases. Examples:
• Integration of heterogeneous data from multiple
sources
• Value-added services for
• computing, modelling, simulation
• data exploration, mining and visualisation, taking due account
of privacy aspects.
Scope
Where data are concerned, projects will define
• Semantics
• Ontologies
• the 'what' metadata
• the best computing models
• levels of abstraction (e.g. by means of open web services) to process the rich semantics at
machine level (the so called 'how' metadata)
as to ensure interoperability.
They may also support proof of concept, prototyping and deployment of advanced data services
and environments, and access to top-of-the-range connectivity and computing.
VREs may target any area of science and technology, especially interdisciplinary ones,
including ICT, mathematics, web science and social sciences and humanities.
Focusing on the ICT infrastructures needed for addressing the Societal Challenges is especially
encouraged.
Scope
Proposals should indicate the number of researchers
they target as potential users.
This topic is complementary with topic INFRADEV-42014/2015, as VREs integrate data, network and
computing resources for interdisciplinary research
communities, whereas INFRADEV-4-2014/2015
addresses interoperability of services and common
solutions for cluster of ESFRI and other research
infrastructure initiatives in thematic areas.
Scope
The Commission considers that proposals requesting
a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 8
million would allow this topic to be addressed
appropriately.
Quindi tra 21 e 6 proposte possibilmente approvate
Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and
selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected impact
VREs:
• are expected to result in more effective collaboration between
researchers and higher efficiency and creativity in research as well as
in higher productivity of researchers thanks to reliable and easy
access to discovery, access and re-use of data.
• They will accelerate innovation in research via an integrated access
to potentially unlimited digital research resources, tools and services
across disciplines and user communities and enable researchers to
process structured and qualitative data in virtual and/or ubiquitous
workspaces.
• They will contribute to increased take-up of collaborative research
and data sharing by new disciplines, research communities and
institutions.
VRCs @Catania
Earth Sciences
EarthServer
http://www.earthserver.eu/
Big Earth Data Analysis by the adoption of the Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)
standard defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
EMSO
http://www.emso-eu.org
European network of fixed point, deep sea observatories with the basic scientific objective
of real-time, long-term monitoring of environmental processes related to the interaction
between the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere.
DRIHM
http://www.drihm.eu/
Open, fully integrated workflow platform for predicting, managing and mitigating the risks
related to extreme weather phenomena
Agriculture
agInfra
http://aginfra.eu
Develop a shared infrastructure and computationally empowered services for agricultural
research data that allow for producing and transferring scientific and technological results
into effective agricultural practice
Cultural
Heritage
DCH-RP
http://www.dch-rp.eu/
Identify best practice for preservation policies in the digital cultural heritage sector
Computational
Chemistry
CCMST VRC
Life Sciences
VESPA
http://www.progettovespa.it
Design and develop a Virtual Environment for qualitative and quantitative evaluation, and
rehabilitation of motor and cognitive diseases such as mental or linguistic retard, and
Alzheimer’s Disease
IORT_THER
APY
http://www.polooncologicoce
falu.it
Supporting the IntraOperative Electron Radiotherapy (IOERT): a technique that allows
treatment of the tumour bed after surgery, delivering a high dose to the target while
preserving other healthy structures
BioVeL
www.biovel.eu
Addresses the needs of a broad range of biodiversity scientists by offering a series of
reliable Web services to construct workflows that can be managed for commonly executed
analyses in ecology, taxonomy, phylogenetics and metagenomics
porting to the distributed infrastructure several real-life use cases based on widely
adopted applications, among them: Quantum Espresso, Crystal, VENUS-C, DL-POLY,
Gromacs, NAMD, Gaussian, etc.
ReCaS Bari
ReCaS Bari sta portando avanti alcune attività nell’ottica
di supportare la partecipazione ad eventuali proposal
VRE
Lifewatch
• Attività nel progetto FP7 BioVeL
• Attività nella JRU Lifewatch italia (insieme a CNR e altri enti di
ricerca nazionali)
Elixir
• Partecipazione nella JRU Elixir Italia (insieme a CNR e altri enti di
ricerca nazionali)
• Partecipazione alle task force europee su item di interesse
tecnologico
Dirac
Attività in corso per sostenere lo sviluppo di componenti non ancora
presenti e che possano essere di interesse per le comunità che seguiamo
più da vicino
EGI Fed Cloud
Task Force
Attività per supportare gli use case di area bio nel contesto della EGI Cloud
Task Force
Virtual Organization supportate sull'infrastruttura ReCaS
e risorse preesistenti (Tier2s, NA/SCoPE, BA/BC2S/,CT/PI2S2)
Virtual
Organization
atlas
alice
lhcb
biomed
compchem
cms
belle
grid.it
argo
virgo
pamela
biovel
glast.org
t2k.org
vo.aginfra.eu
Km3Net.org
Bari
Catania
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Tools INFN
@Catania
AAI
• Federated users authentication;
• “catch-all” Identity Federation and Identity Providers for “homeless” users
High-level tools and frameworks
• Web-based Science Gateways to harmonize the access to the distributed computing
infrastructures (Grid, Cloud and HPC) using standards defined by OGF;
• Cloud-based computing infrastructures and solutions (IaaS and SaaS);
• Open Access Data and Document Repositories services;
• Native mobile solutions for implementing application on different platforms (iOS, Android,
BlackBerry and Windows Phone);
Cloud Computing
• Distributed & orchestrated cloud based on standard API
@Bari
Web service e Workflow access:
• How to make available complex computational resources in a seamless way to
high level services like workflow (Grid, Cloud and HPC)
• Cloud based solution for “long tail of science”
@Altre sezioni
- E' il caso di fare al piu' presto un inventario/catalogo
UTENTI RECAS - Oltre 40 Gruppi di Utenti
Area di interesse
Fisica delle Alte
Energie (HEP)
Gruppo (Istituzione di appartenenza)
ALICE
(INFN)
ATLAS
(INFN)
ARGO (INFN)
VIRGO (INFN)
Analisi delle
biodiversità, analisi
filogenetiche, NGS,
simulazione dinamica
molecolare
CEINGEBiotecnologie
(UNINA)
LHCb
(INFN)
Istituto
Tecnologie
Biomediche
(CNR)
Istituto
Virologia
delle Piante
(CNR)
Dip. di Farmacia e Dip. di
Bioscienze, Biotecnologie e
Biofarmaceutica (UNIBA)
Simulazioni modelli
sismici,
metereologici,
fluidodinamica
Istituto di
Vulcanologia
(CNR)
Neuroscienze,
immagini mediche
digitali
Dipartimento di Fisica
(UNIBA)
BELLE2
(INFN)
FERMI/GLAST (INFN)
T2K (INFN)
Istituto di
Biomembrane
e Bioenergia
(CNR)
Botanica (UNINA)
CMS
(INFN)
Dip. di Ingegneria Civile,
Dip. di Ingegneria
Industriale, Dip. di
Matematica (UNINA)
Dipartimento
di Scienze
della Salute
(UMG)
Dip. di
Informatica
(Univ.
Bicocca)
Dip. Scienze Chimiche e Dip. di
Ingegneria Chimica, dei
Materiali e della Prod. Industriale
(UNINA)
Dip. di Fisica
(UNIBA)
Dipartimento di Fisica
e Chimica
(UNIPALERMO)
PAMELA
(INFN)
Gruppo IV
(INFN)
Dipartimento di
Matematica (UNINA)
Economia: Stime di
modelli Bayesiani
Dipartimento di Economia (Università Roma Tre)
Studio e
Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni (UNINA)
ARPA Puglia
MIND
(INFN)