EUDAT, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program, provides a comprehensive set of research data services across 15 European nations, aiming to bridge research and e-infrastructures. The project focuses on ensuring interoperability with public and private infrastructures, enabling seamless access to data and computing resources, and supporting multiple research communities. Key initiatives include community pilots and developing a universal use case for integrated cloud and data services across EGI and EUDAT platforms.

1. www.eudat.euEUDAT receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - DG CONNECT e-Infrastructures. Contract No. 654065
EGI - EUDAT interoperability
efforts
DI4R Conference - Krakow
Michaela Barth caela@kth.se
Peter Gille petergil@kth.se

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24 countries
CERN, EMBL-EBI
1 coordinating organization – EGI.eu
Slide thanks to Matthew Viljoen

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Open Solutions
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Computing and Data Integration
EGI Open Data Platform enhances
EGI/EUDAT services through developments
in:
• FedCloud: EGI AppDB, Cloud
Management Frameworks, hybrid clouds
• Data: federated data -> sharing across
VMs, discoverability via DataHub
EGI AAI now based on Open ID Connect
Slide thanks to Matthew Viljoen

5. EUDAT in a NutShell
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● EUDAT – offers a complete set of research data
services, expertise and technology solutions to all
European scientists and researchers. These shared
services and storage resources are distributed across 15
European nations and data is stored alongside some of
Europe’s most powerful supercomputers.
● One of the main ambitions of EUDAT is to bridge the
gap between research infrastructures and e-
infrastructures through an active engagement strategy,
using the communities that are in the consortium as
EUDAT beacons and integrating others through
innovative partnerships.

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supporting
multiple research
communities as
well as
individuals,
through a
geographically
distributed,
resilient network
of 35 European
organisations

7. B2 Service Suite
B2ACCESS
B2HANDLE

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Joint Access to Data
and HPC Services Commercial
stakeholders
Collaboration with
Commercial
Stakeholders
Joint Access to Data,
HTC and Cloud
Computing
Resources
Interoperability

9. Overall WP 7 objectives
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● Ensure the interoperability of EUDAT with other
public and private e-Infrastructures, lowering
technical and policy barriers by piloting
concrete use cases with user communities
● Provide European researchers and industries
with seamless access to data and computing
resources for cross-utilization use cases
● Pave the way towards the interoperability of e-
Infrastructure tools and services beyond H2020

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Joint Access to Data
and HPC Services Commercial
stakeholders
Collaboration with
Commercial
Stakeholders
Joint Access to Data,
HTC and Cloud
Computing
Resources
Interoperability
WP 7 Task 7.2
WP 7

11. WP7 Task 7.2: Joint Access to Data, HTC
and Cloud Computing Resources
• Connects data stored in the CDI to high throughput and
cloud computing resources provided through EGI
• Starting with concrete community pilots
• Aiming at a production cross-infrastructure service
(integrating storage resources managed by EUDAT and
computing resources available at EGI)
• EGI-EUDAT collaboration started in March 2016.
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12. WP7 Task 7.2: Joint Access to Data, HTC
and Cloud Computing Resources
Two subtasks:
• 7.2.1 Service Interfaces and Access Policies
• with focus on users’ authentication, standards transfer protocols and
tools, execution of computational workflow and harmonization of
access policies
• 7.2.2 Community pilots and Coordination of Joint Calls
for Proposals
• coordinating the implementation of selected community pilots,
• initially intended to start with four community pilots (ICOS, ELIXIR,
EISCAT-3D, BBMRI), now only 2 pilots (ICOS and EPOS)
• organizing a Joint Call for Proposals to expand the pilot activity to
further communities
• Main objectives:
• provide end-users with a seamless access to an integrated
infrastructure offering both EGI and EUDAT services
• pairing data and high-throughput computing resources together.
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13. • Federated services through EGI paired together with
existing EUDAT common data services of EUDAT:
• Additionally pooling effect: augmentation of services from
existing communities using EGI/EUDAT
Expected Benefits
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Computation on
EGI Federated
Cloud and HTC
EUDAT services
for transfer, syncing,
sharing, staging and
preservation of data

14. • Technical
• interoperability (e.g. workflow execution, data
discoverability and provenance),
• Authentication, Authorization and Identity (AAI) Mgmt.
• Combination of respective service catalogues
• Policies
• access policy
• long-term perspective
• operational policies
• Operational
• Operational tools, technologies, best practices
• Security
• SLAs
Harmonization on all levels
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15. • Transparent access to EGI and EUDAT services:
• When a user is authenticated once on EGI and EUDAT, (s)he
should be able to see the EGI and EUDAT services as offered
by a unique infrastructure
• Breaking this down into smaller steps:
• Allowing users to access EGI and EUDAT web services
with the same credential.
• Allowing users to access EGI and EUDAT non web
services with the same credential.
• Attributes harmonisation
• Enabling EGI services to delegate user’s credential to
EUDAT services and vice versa.
• Data privacy issues and policy harmonisation.
EGI/EUDAT AAI Interoperability
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16. • Work done so far:
• Get an understanding of each other’s AAI layers
• breaking the task down into smaller steps
• Started draft document
• Enabling accounts for some feasibility tests
• Next step:
• Complete Roadmap
EGI/EUDAT AAI Interoperability
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17. • Work done so far:
• EGI and EUDAT selected a set of relevant (= already
collaborating with both infrastructures) user communities
• Started process of getting requirements from user
communities and their indication of prioritization of those
requirements (“Definition of the universal use case”) →
integration activity has been driven by the end users from
the start!
• Identified user communities were prominent European
Research infrastructure in the field of Earth Science
(EPOS and ICOS), Bioinformatics (BBMRI and ELIXIR)
and Space Physics (EISCAT-3D).
User community pilots
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18. Definition of the universal use case
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• covers the user needs with respect to the integration of
the two infrastructures
• permits a user of either e-infrastructure to instantiate a
VM on the EGI Cloud Federation for the execution of a
computational job consuming data preserved onto
EUDAT resources. The results of such analysis can be
staged back to EUDAT storages, and if needed,
allocated with Permanent identifiers (PIDs) for future
use.

19. Definition of the universal use case
• Demo at EGI Community Forum 2015 by Diego
Scardaci
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20. Definition of the universal use case
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• To implement all the steps of this use case the following
integration activities between the two infrastructures has
to be fulfilled: (1) harmonisation between the
authentication and authorisation model, (2) definition
and implementation of the interfaces between the
involved EGI and EUDAT services.
• The first phase of the implementation of this use case
has been demonstrated at the EGI Community Forum
2015 (Bari, IT). In addition, two pilot use cases (EPOS
and ICOS) have been selected to drive the
implementation and validate the results.

21. ICOS Carbon Portal use case
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Slide thanks to Margareta Hellström
Background:
ICOS wants to
set up "on
demand
computing"
facilities that
allows users
to perform
calculations
based on
ICOS
observational
data.

22. ICOS Carbon Portal use case status
• Virtual machine with attached block storage instantiated in the EGI
Federated Cloud
• Docker container hosting web service and model computations running in
the VM with all input data copied to the local storage of the VM
• Data transfer between the VM and B2STAGE instance (at KTH Stockholm)
tested using the contextualization script provided by EGI
• Storing of ICOS data tested on the B2SAFE system at KTH
Next steps:
• ICOS data storage in B2SAFE (at KTH) and access via B2STAGE service
• Access to common storage for several VMs (e.g. via the EGI DataHub)
• Robot certificates to allow for further automation of the workflow
• Load balancing to distribute computations/users requests to several VMs
• Prepare “focused” documentation, with a clear user perspective!
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Slide thanks to Margareta Hellström

23. Challenges encountered so far
When implementing prototypes of use-cases of EPOS and
ICOS:
• Scaling up from proof of concept to multiple users
• AAI interoperation
• Managing co-existing support systems and channels
• more user-friendly documentation of all services in the
current state (not the final vision) desirable
• steep learning curve for the user communities in using
e-infrastructure communities
• 3rd party dependencies
• On the plus side: personal contacts highly appreciated
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24. Next steps
• Prolong the tasks until March 2018
• Deliverable “12 months report”
• Continued implementation of use cases with
result evaluation
• Joint call for proposals to expand the pilot
activity
• Final report including recommendations for
service development and access policy
harmonization
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25. For more info:
https://b2drop.eudat.eu
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2drop
https://b2share.eudat.eu
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2share
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2safe
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2stage
http://b2find.eudat.eu
https://eudat.eu/services/userdoc/b2find
http://b2access.eudat.eu

26. More on EUDAT
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● EUDAT is a collaborative Pan-European infrastructure
and provides also training and consultancy for
researchers, research communities, research
infrastructures and data centres.
● EUDAT’s vision is to enable European researchers and
practitioners from any research discipline to preserve,
find, access, and process data in a trusted environment,
as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)
conceived as a network of collaborating, cooperating
centres, combining the richness of numerous community-
specific data repositories with the permanence and
persistence of some of Europe’s largest scientific data
centres.