EGIIn SPIRE NGIBG Emanouil Atanassov 2162022 EGIIn SPIRE

EGI-In. SPIRE NGI_BG Emanouil Atanassov 2/16/2022 EGI-In. SPIRE RI-261323 1 www. egi. eu

Disclaimer • This presentation template is meant to provide NILs with an instrument to discuss ideas for user-support and service innovation in H 2020 that could become part of the activity of an EGI-Engage Competence Centre (https: //documents. egi. eu/document/2187) • User support activities include – Training and education – Technical support and consultancy to existing and prospective user communities – Innovation and pre-production • of new capabilities to the EGI services portfolio (infrastructure platform, cloud and grid platforms), the integration of new ICT technologies • of Virtual Research Environments to be integrated with existing and new EGI capabilities 2/16/2022 EGI-In. SPIRE RI-261323 2 www. egi. eu

Main relevant communities User community Earth and Space Science User support project • Supporting to Grid/Cloud of software and scientific workflows, related to climate change impact analysis, fine-grain atmospheric pollution modelling, related to the Virtual Organizations of ESR and env. see-grid-sci. eu. • Running certain base level and high-level services for the community. • Training material and training events, collect feedback. Processing of large Image and text datasets • To support the porting of data mining/data analytics workflows to EGI • To deploy services and software for CLARIN that is interoperable with their infrastructure. • To deploy and operate a Paa. S solution for such tasks. Bioinformatics and biodiversity • Supporting of new applications from the domains of computational chemistry, molecular modelling, drug research into EGI • Deployment and operation of high-level services for the needs of this community, e. g. , scientific gateway, performance database • To introduce the scientific community that study biodiversity into EGI, to provide training, user support, basic VO services. 2/16/2022 EGI-In. SPIRE RI-261323 3 www. egi. eu

Earth and Space Science • Support objectives ‒ Deployment/Porting to Grid/Cloud of software and scientific workflows, related to climate change impact analysis, fine-grain atmospheric pollution modelling. ‒ Training and user induction • Development projects that could bring benefits to this community ‒ Optimization of air pollution modelling software for use on Grid / Cloud resources, combining CPU and GPU/Xeon. Phi resources ‒ Software and Platform as a Service for processing and analysis of astronomical images, making use of Cloud resources and libraries like PIXON 2/16/2022 EGI-In. SPIRE RI-261323 4 www. egi. eu

Processing of large Image and text datasets • Support objectives ‒ Support the porting of generic software/middleware solutions and domain specific software for processing large image and text datasets to EGI Cloud ‒ Provide training material and events for users from the community of CLARIN • Development projects that could bring benefits to this community ‒ Services that facilitate efficient parallelization of language processing modules. ‒ Paa. S solution for Data Mining of 3 D images from CT. 2/16/2022 EGI-In. SPIRE RI-261323 5 www. egi. eu

• Support objectives Bioinformatics and biodiversity ‒ To introduce the scientific community from the domains of computational chemistry, molecular modelling, drug research into EGI ‒ To operate the high-level services that are necessary for this community, e. g. , scientific gateway, performance database ‒ To introduce the scientific community that study biodiversity into EGI, to provide training, user support, basic VO services. • Development projects that could bring benefits to this community ‒ Scientific gateways abstracting CPU and GPU/Xeon Phi resources for optimal execution of protein folding, drug research, DNA analysis tasks. ‒ Development and testing of performance database, which stores performance information with the aim to facilitate optimization of execution of applications. ‒ Statistical simulation software for estimation and modelling of population dynamics of protected species. 2/16/2022 EGI-In. SPIRE RI-261323 6 www. egi. eu