HNSciCloud has shared with the IT experts in scientific computing belonging to the HEPiX forum, the status of the ongoing Pre-Commercial Procurement of innovative cloud services and what the expected results might be.
Bob Jones, PICSE & HNSciCloud Coordinator, was invited to present the PICSE results and the new HNSciCloud project in the "data infrastructure" session of the Open Science Conference on the 5th of April 2016.
In this presentation, delivered at the DI4R 2016 Conference, Bob Jones of CERN traced the cloud procurement trails performed within the context of the Helix Nebula Initiative and the on-going Pre-Commercial Procurement action undertaken by a group of 10 of Europe’s leading publicly funded research organisations.
Smart orchestrator for pipeline processing chain applied to space data cwin18...Capgemini
GeoApps is Capgemini’s Earth Observation
(EO) application portal allowing researchers and industrial partners to request and visualise EO products generated from the latest satellite image data. COPA is an orchestration framework for containerised applications that enables the design and run of complex workflows. This session will explore how GeoApps will implement COPA for the orchestration of EO data workflows.
Overview of the US National Science Foundation Cloud and Autonomic Computing Industry/University Cooperative Research Center testbed activities on the US NSF Chameleon, Cloudlab and XSEDE resources.
The NSF CAC will use its industry/university connections to promote and foster open cloud standards & interoperability testbeds using internal and external resources.
Specific projects have been proposed and approved on two new NSF computer-science-oriented cloud “testbed as a service” resources, Chameleon and CloudLab, which have recently been funded to replace the FutureGrid project.
These testbeds will be open to all researchers who wish to cooperate with us on cloud interoperability, performance, standards or general cloud functionality testing within the context of the approved projects.
Both US domestic and international participants are welcome, as long as you’re willing to work on interoperability topics and share your results.
Opportunties for involvement in the CAC by commercial companies also exist, as described at http://nsfcac.org
Bob Jones, PICSE & HNSciCloud Coordinator, was invited to present the PICSE results and the new HNSciCloud project in the "data infrastructure" session of the Open Science Conference on the 5th of April 2016.
In this presentation, delivered at the DI4R 2016 Conference, Bob Jones of CERN traced the cloud procurement trails performed within the context of the Helix Nebula Initiative and the on-going Pre-Commercial Procurement action undertaken by a group of 10 of Europe’s leading publicly funded research organisations.
Smart orchestrator for pipeline processing chain applied to space data cwin18...Capgemini
GeoApps is Capgemini’s Earth Observation
(EO) application portal allowing researchers and industrial partners to request and visualise EO products generated from the latest satellite image data. COPA is an orchestration framework for containerised applications that enables the design and run of complex workflows. This session will explore how GeoApps will implement COPA for the orchestration of EO data workflows.
Overview of the US National Science Foundation Cloud and Autonomic Computing Industry/University Cooperative Research Center testbed activities on the US NSF Chameleon, Cloudlab and XSEDE resources.
The NSF CAC will use its industry/university connections to promote and foster open cloud standards & interoperability testbeds using internal and external resources.
Specific projects have been proposed and approved on two new NSF computer-science-oriented cloud “testbed as a service” resources, Chameleon and CloudLab, which have recently been funded to replace the FutureGrid project.
These testbeds will be open to all researchers who wish to cooperate with us on cloud interoperability, performance, standards or general cloud functionality testing within the context of the approved projects.
Both US domestic and international participants are welcome, as long as you’re willing to work on interoperability topics and share your results.
Opportunties for involvement in the CAC by commercial companies also exist, as described at http://nsfcac.org
Presentation at the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) Conference 2015, Business Track "Examples of SMEs as consumers and providers".
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
Terradue Cloud Platform delivers Cloud bursting for Earth Science Applications and Services, illustrated in this presentation by many use cases and collaborations fostering the reuse of Earth Observation open data and open services.
The presentation "Case Study: Developing and Integrating a Cloud Sourcing Strategy at CERN" was part of the "Gartner sourcing and strategic vendor relationship summit" held on the 6 and 7 June 2016, in London, United Kingdom.The main objective of the event was to bring together Senior Sourcing Executives, Sourcing Managers, Contract Managers and Vendor Managers to discuss practical advice, insight into future trends and to validate their sourcing strategies and initiatives by exchanging best practices. In this context Helge Meinhard, CERN, presented the CERN cloud sourcing strategy, the past CERN procurements and the plans with the recently funded HNSciCloud pre-commercial procurement.
From Jisc's campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop on 19 October 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/campus-network-engineering-for-data-intensive-science-workshop-19-oct-2016
Science Demonstrator Session: Physics and AstrophysicsEOSCpilot .eu
The main focus of Science Demonstrator sessions is to provide feedback to the EOSC community on the first experience of science demonstrators in the practical use of the emerging EOSC ecosystem.
Each panel will consist of a representative of a Science Demonstrator that will provide an overview of their experiences in the use of emerging EOSC services.
These sessions will help members of the scientific communities understanding the current state of maturity of the EOSC ecosystem and what is obtainable in a field of scientific research. It is also valuable to prospective Service Providers who wish to discover what are the challenges and opportunities that user communities might have to deal with, as a result of the adoption of their services.
This session will focus on Physics and Astrophysics.
On the 20th of January 2016, Bob Jones, CERN and PICSE & HNSciCloud Coordinator, presented HNSciCloud, the recently launched (Jan 2016) European Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project co-funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme.
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory uses Panasas ActiveStor to accelerate global c...Panasas
With nearly 8.5 petabytes of ActiveStor storage, the Panasas installation at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) represents one of the largest multi-location, high-performance computing (HPC) storage deployments in Great Britain. Panasas ActiveStor gives RAL a solution that offers extreme scalability and simple storage management capabilities so that scientists can focus on important research, not on cumbersome system administration.
Overview and introductory remarks for the OGF sessions held May 21-22, 2015 co-located with the European Grid Initiative 2015 conference that took place the week of May 18-22, 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. For details, see https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-44
Processing malaria HTS results using KNIME: a tutorialGreg Landrum
Walks through a couple of KNIME Workflows for working with HTS Data.
The workflows are derived from the work described in this publication: https://f1000research.com/articles/6-1136/v2
introducing european research infrastructure strategy and examples for the humanities, e.g. CLARIN, DARIAH, COST ENeL from technical and social point of view, use case: explorative lexicography; example: newly established institute : Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, on the proiject DARIAH CC as part of the EU-Horizon2020 project EGI ENGAGE
Presentation at the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) Conference 2015, Business Track "Examples of SMEs as consumers and providers".
EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.
Terradue Cloud Platform delivers Cloud bursting for Earth Science Applications and Services, illustrated in this presentation by many use cases and collaborations fostering the reuse of Earth Observation open data and open services.
The presentation "Case Study: Developing and Integrating a Cloud Sourcing Strategy at CERN" was part of the "Gartner sourcing and strategic vendor relationship summit" held on the 6 and 7 June 2016, in London, United Kingdom.The main objective of the event was to bring together Senior Sourcing Executives, Sourcing Managers, Contract Managers and Vendor Managers to discuss practical advice, insight into future trends and to validate their sourcing strategies and initiatives by exchanging best practices. In this context Helge Meinhard, CERN, presented the CERN cloud sourcing strategy, the past CERN procurements and the plans with the recently funded HNSciCloud pre-commercial procurement.
From Jisc's campus network engineering for data-intensive science workshop on 19 October 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/campus-network-engineering-for-data-intensive-science-workshop-19-oct-2016
Science Demonstrator Session: Physics and AstrophysicsEOSCpilot .eu
The main focus of Science Demonstrator sessions is to provide feedback to the EOSC community on the first experience of science demonstrators in the practical use of the emerging EOSC ecosystem.
Each panel will consist of a representative of a Science Demonstrator that will provide an overview of their experiences in the use of emerging EOSC services.
These sessions will help members of the scientific communities understanding the current state of maturity of the EOSC ecosystem and what is obtainable in a field of scientific research. It is also valuable to prospective Service Providers who wish to discover what are the challenges and opportunities that user communities might have to deal with, as a result of the adoption of their services.
This session will focus on Physics and Astrophysics.
On the 20th of January 2016, Bob Jones, CERN and PICSE & HNSciCloud Coordinator, presented HNSciCloud, the recently launched (Jan 2016) European Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project co-funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme.
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory uses Panasas ActiveStor to accelerate global c...Panasas
With nearly 8.5 petabytes of ActiveStor storage, the Panasas installation at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) represents one of the largest multi-location, high-performance computing (HPC) storage deployments in Great Britain. Panasas ActiveStor gives RAL a solution that offers extreme scalability and simple storage management capabilities so that scientists can focus on important research, not on cumbersome system administration.
Overview and introductory remarks for the OGF sessions held May 21-22, 2015 co-located with the European Grid Initiative 2015 conference that took place the week of May 18-22, 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. For details, see https://www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/events/ogf-44
Processing malaria HTS results using KNIME: a tutorialGreg Landrum
Walks through a couple of KNIME Workflows for working with HTS Data.
The workflows are derived from the work described in this publication: https://f1000research.com/articles/6-1136/v2
introducing european research infrastructure strategy and examples for the humanities, e.g. CLARIN, DARIAH, COST ENeL from technical and social point of view, use case: explorative lexicography; example: newly established institute : Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, on the proiject DARIAH CC as part of the EU-Horizon2020 project EGI ENGAGE
No debate público sobre a conjuntura econômica brasileira de 2015, algumas análises sugerem a ocorrência de um processo de substituição de importações. Entende-se que determinadas características estruturais do sistema produtivo brasileiro implicam em um comportamento marcadamente pró-cíclico do coeficiente de importações. Assim, o movimento das importações brasileiras em 2015 reflete um movimento conjuntural consistente com certa rigidez de sua estrutura produtiva, associado ao quadro de profunda recessão doméstica.
Militärische Aggression Russlands gegen die Ukraine. BESONDERHEITEN DER AUFSTELLUNG UND OPERATIVEN HANDLUNGEN DER RUSSISCHEN INVASIONSTRUPPEN IN DER OSTUKRAINE
Lexicography and Lexicology from a Pan-European Perspective: COST ENeL Workin...eveline wandl-vogt
COST ENeL WG4 progress report, informing about the work in working group 4 on pan-european lexicology and lexicography; including adminstrative issues, gender-balance, research topics and research proposals.
A FEE está divulgando as estatísticas do emprego formal celetista e das exportações do agronegócio do Brasil e do Rio Grande do Sul referentes ao terceiro trimestre de 2016 (julho-setembro).
Mensalmente as estatísticas serão atualizadas e publicadas no site da instituição.
Trimestralmente ocorre a apresentação dos resultados para a imprensa e demais interessados.
Resultado do terceiro trimestre
No terceiro trimestre de 2016, o Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) do Rio Grande do Sul teve uma redução de 1,7% em relação ao mesmo trimestre de 2015. Em sua composição, o Valor Adicionado Bruto (VAB) reduziu-se em 1,3%, e os impostos líquidos caíram 4,6%. Já o PIB do Brasil caiu 2,9%, com uma redução de 2,5% no VAB e de 4,8% nos impostos líquidos. A agropecuária gaúcha aumentou 2,1%, e a do País caiu 6,0%. A indústria no Rio Grande do Sul retraiu-se em 4,6%, enquanto a do Brasil decresceu 2,9%. Já os serviços gaúchos reduziram-se em 1,6%, ao passo que os brasileiros, 2,2%.
Research Infrastructures Draft Work Programme 2016-2017Innovate UK
Research Infrastructures Draft Work Programme 2016-2017
1. Development and long-term sustainability of new pan- European RIs
2. Integrating and Opening RIs of European Interest 3. e-Infrastructures
4. Fostering the innovation potential of RI
5. Support to Policy and International cooperation (RI/e-RI)
INCENDIUM- The FLAMES Quiz.
Conducted by Dhruba jyoti Barman and Pratyush Pran Sarma at Cotton College, Guwahati on 16th August as a part of the Independence day quiz fest.
The Preliminary Round of MindQuest 2014 - Mahindra World City Open Quiz held on Feb 28, 2014 at Mahindra World City, Chengelpet. More than 220 teams participated in the Quiz. The Quiz was researched and conducted by Indian Quizzing League
Bob Jones, CERN & HNSciCloud Coordinator gives an update on the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement which is now in its Solution Prototyping phase. The presentation includes also an overview of the prototypes under development.
On 29 January 2020 ARCHIVER launched its Request for Tender with the purpose to award several Framework Agreements and work orders for the provision of R&D for hybrid end-to-end archival and preservation services that meet the innovation challenges of European Research communities, in the context of the European Open Science Cloud.
The tender was closed on 28 April 2020 and 15 R&D bids were submitted, with consortia that included 43 companies and organisations. The best bids have been selected and will start the first phase of the ARCHIVER R&D (Solution Design) in June 2020.
On Monday 8 June the selected consortia for the ARCHIVER design phase have been announced during a Public Award Ceremony starting at 14.00 CEST.
In light of the COVID-19 outbreak and the and consequent movement restrictions imposed in several countries, the event has been organised as a webinar, virtually hosted by Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), a member of the Buyers Group of the ARCHIVER consortium.
The Kick-off marks the beginning of the Solution Design Phase.
OSFair2017 Workshop | The European Open Science Cloud Pilot Open Science Fair
Brian Matthews presents the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the EOSCpilot | OSFair2017 Workshop
Workshop title: How FAIR friendly is your data catalogue?
Workshop overview:
This workshop will build upon the work planned by the EOSCpilot data interoperability task and the BlueBridge workshop held on April 3 at the RDA meeting. We will investigate common mechanisms for interoperation of data catalogues that preserve established community standards, norms and resources, while simplifying the process of being/becoming FAIR. Can we have a simple interoperability architecture based on a common set of metadata types? What are the minimum metadata requirements to expose FAIR data to EOSC services and EOSC users?
DAY 3 - PARALLEL SESSION 6 & 7
This year the "hot topic" of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) Annual General Meeting was the creation of a Marketplace Alliance for Earth Observation Services (MAEOS). Recently, the EARSC has released a position paper around the development of a European Marketplace for EO services as a leverage for the exploitation of Copernicus data and services alongside commercial offerings. In this presentation all the insights and lessons learnt on marketplaces for cloud services.
This presentation, given by Bob Jones, CERN & HNSciCloud Coordinator, at the ESA-ESPI Workshop on “Space Data & Cloud Computing Infrastructures: Policies and Regulations”, describes what are the challenges and needs of the cloud users and explains how an hybrid cloud model can support them.
Deep Learning on Apache Spark at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider with Intel Tech...Databricks
In this session, you will learn how CERN easily applied end-to-end deep learning and analytics pipelines on Apache Spark at scale for High Energy Physics using BigDL and Analytics Zoo open source software running on Intel Xeon-based distributed clusters.
Technical details and development learnings will be shared using an example of topology classification to improve real-time event selection at the Large Hadron Collider experiments. The classifier has demonstrated very good performance figures for efficiency, while also reducing the false positive rate compared to the existing methods. It could be used as a filter to improve the online event selection infrastructure of the LHC experiments, where one could benefit from a more flexible and inclusive selection strategy while reducing the amount of downstream resources wasted in processing false positives.
This is part of CERN’s research on applying Deep Learning and Analytics using open source and industry standard technologies as an alternative to the existing customized rule based methods. We show how we could quickly build and implement distributed deep learning solutions and data pipelines at scale on Apache Spark using Analytics Zoo and BigDL, which are open source frameworks unifying Analytics and AI on Spark with easy to use APIs and development interfaces seamlessly integrated with Big Data Platforms.
Overview of what has happened in HNSciCloud over the last five months, Delivered by Helge Meinhard of CERN at the HEPiX Workshop on October 21st, 2016, in Berkeley, California, USA.
In this deck from the UK HPC Conference, Paul Calleja from the University of Cambridge presents: The Cambridge Research Computing Service.
"The Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) brings together researchers and expertise from across the academic departments and industry to drive research into the analysis, understanding and use of data science. The Centre is funded by a series of collaborations with partners in business and industry which have an interest in using data science for the benefit of their customers and their organisations. With unprecedented access to increasing volumes of data, our research ranges from the underlying fundamentals in mathematics and computer science, to data science applications across all six University Schools of Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology. In parallel, our research addresses important issues around law, ethics and economics, in order to apply data science to solve challenging problems for society."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kYb
Learn more: https://www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/
and
http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2019/uk-conference/agenda.php
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
Shared services - the future of HPC and big data facilities for UK researchMartin Hamilton
Slides from Jisc panel session at HPC & Big Data 2016 with contributions from the Francis Crick Institute, QMUL and King's College London covering their use of the Jisc shared data centre and the eMedLab project
This presentation at CERN during the IT Technical Forum on 24 Nov 2017 highlighted the achievement of the Up2University Project (https://up2university.eu/, funded under the EC Call ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills), which aims at bridging the gap between secondary schools, higher education, and the research domain adopting learning technology and methodology to let high school students use the very same tools & services used by real researchers doing Big Science at CERN.
In order to provide concrete example of CERN core technologies running in containers, the Up2U cloud based education services have been ported to the HNSciCloud prototype systems provided by T-Systems and IBM.
TNC17, its 33rd edition, was held in the UNESCO City of Media Arts of Linz, Austria between 29 May - 2 June 2017.
The 30th of May, Edoardo Martinelli, CERN, gave a presentation (available below) entitled "Network experiences with Public Cloud Services" during the session "Connecting to cloud providers". This session was meant to present the current state of networking for cloud services, to lay out important challenges in the area, and to point to future work. The session was also intended to stimulate and facilitate discussion in the community.
Edoardo Martinelli presented with the aim of highlight the experience of a large institution (CERN) in procuring large-scale cloud resources on behalf of a scientific community, and the results from initial deployments of such services. The presentation has given details of networking challenges, how these have been overcome, and the performance obtained. Based on these experiences, recommendations for networks in support of cloud resources have been given. The presentation was included 2017 experience from the HNsciCloud project.
Docker container virtualization provides an efficient way to create isolated scientific environments, adjusted and optimized for a specific problem or a specific group of users. It allows to efficiently separate responsibilities - with IT focusing on infrastructure for image repositories, preparation of basic images, container deployment and scaling, and physicists focusing on application development in environment of their choice.
Depending on demand, compute resources can be dynamically provisioned and a containerised scientific environment can be deployed in a matter of seconds on a user laptop, a batch farm, an HPC cluster or a cloud without need for a user to learn new environment, install additional libraries, resolve dependencies, recompile applications.
The present talk will describe DESY's experience with providing Docker service on our HPC cluster and report progress in using cloud to transparently and elastically extend containerised scientific environments - a work being done within the HELIX NEBULA Science Cloud project.
CERN and Huawei, one of the companies that is working with T-Systems to develop a prototype for HNSciCloud, in the context of CERN openlab, will jointly work on improvements to OpenStack for running large scale scientific workloads.
This collaboration was announced at the CERN openlab open day on 21st September 2017.
Over 90% of CERN’s compute resources are delivered using OpenStack. OpenStack provides software for private and public clouds and CERN and Huawei are among the major contributors to the open source project (Huawei is a platinum member of the OpenStack foundation).
With the needs of LHC computing in future years, efficient and flexible delivery of compute resources will be key. That's why CERN and Huawei have joined forces to jointly work on improvements to OpenStack for running large scale scientific workloads.
The developments will be done within the OpenStack community following the standard open source processes.
Focus areas will be:
Flexible resource management
Quotas
Bare metal allocation
Compute cells
Changes, resulting from this activity, will then be included into the CERN private cloud and Huawei’s private and public cloud offerings.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithy
Helix Nebula the Science Cloud: Pre-Commercial Procurement pilot
1. Helix Nebula Science Cloud
Pre-Commercial Procurement pilot
21 April 2016
Helge Meinhard, CERN
2. LHC Upgrades
Run 3: ALICE + LHCb
LHCb:
• 1 MHz 40 MHz
ALICE:
• 50 kHz event rate (75
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upgrades
~10 kHz event rate
(today 1 kHz)
10-40 GB/s data rates
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Data: ~25 PB/yr 400 PB/yr
Compute: Growth > x50
10 Year Horizon
What we think is
affordable unless we do
something differently
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2010 2015 2018 2023
4. HEP Facility timescale
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Physics
Construct Physics
Design Proto Construct Physics
Construct Physics
Construct Physics
Construct Physics
LHC
SuperKEKB
HL-LHC
FCC
LBNF
ILC Design
Integrated view between Europe
(ESPP), USA (P5), Japan
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Science
Science
Science
SKA
LSST
CTA
5. Not only physics
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Growth of EBI repositories, lines
are 12 month doubling
7. Major challenges
What if I get
locked in? Are there relevant
standards I should be
looking into?
What
happens to
my data?
How do I get
a good deal?
What happens to
my IT staff?
How can I compare
contracts & SLAs?
What is
PCP?
What are
the others
doing?
How can I allocate
costs?
What
services do
I need?
1. Cloud computing is disrupting the way IT resources are provisioned
2. In-house resources, publicly funded e-infrastructure and commercial cloud
services are not integrated to provide a seamless environment
3. Current organisational and financial models are not appropriate
4. The new way of procuring cloud services is also a matter of skills and education
5. Legal impediments exist
8. The Helix Nebula Initiative
The preferred model for public research
organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines
in-house resources with public e-
infrastructures and commercial cloud services
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The Helix Nebula initiative has
brought together research
organisations, data providers,
publicly funded e-
infrastructures and European
commercial cloud service
providers to develop a hybrid
cloud model with
procurement and governance
approaches suitable for the
dynamic cloud market
9. Procurement Process
PCP
A more flexible and agile
procurement process must be
created and implemented to
speed up the uptake of cloud
services for the research sector
See PICSE call to action
http://www.picse.eu/
10. PCP PPI
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Why PCP?
Commercial IaaS exists but not certified, integrated with
public e-infrastructures, offering std interfaces with
suitable SLA and contractual terms & conditions.
PPI
Potential follow-on
project if this PCP
project is successful
11. HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement
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Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF,
IFAE, INFN, KIT, SURFSara, STFC
Experts: Trust-IT & EGI.eu
The group of procurers have committed
• >1.6M€ of procurement funds
• Manpower for testing/evaluation
• Use-cases with applications & data
• In-house IT resources
To procure innovative IaaS level cloud services
integrated into a hybrid cloud model
• Commercial cloud services
• European e-Infrastructures
Services will be made available to end-users
from many research communities
Co-funded via H2020 (Jan’16-Jun’18)
• Grant Agreement 687614
Total procurement commitment >5M€
12. What will be procured
A joint science cloud platform for the European research community
Combining services at the IaaS level into an environment supporting
the full lifecycle of science workflows
The R&D services to be developed will need to be integrated with
Resources in data centres operated by the buyers group
European-scale publicly funded e-Infrastructures
As a hybrid platform on which a competitive marketplace of
European cloud players can develop their own services for a wider
range of users beyond research and science
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http://www.helix-nebula.eu/events/hnscicloud-pre-commercial-procurement-open-market-consultation-omc
13. HNSciCloud PCP project phases
Preparation
• Analysis of requirements,
current market offers and
relevant standards
• Build stakeholder group
• Develop tender material
Implementation Sharing
• Best practises
• Recommendations
• Training
Launch of
tender Pilots tested &
assessed
9 months 14 months 7 months
Jan’16 Jun’18
4 Designs
3
Prototypes
2 Pilots
We are
here
. . .
• Each step is competitive.
• Bids evaluated against published criteria
• Only contractors that successfully
complete the previous step can bid in
the next
14. High Energy Physics
LHC experiments
Belle II
COMPASS
Astronomy
CTA – Cherenkov Telescope Array
MAGIC
Pierre Auger Observatory
Life Sciences
ELIXIR
Euro-BioImaging
Pan-Cancer
BBMRI
WeNMR
Photon/Neutron science
PETRA III, European XFEL, 3DIX, OCEAN, OSIRIS
Long tail of science
Etc.
User groups to be supported
15. Technical Challenges
Compute
Integration of some HPC requirements
Storage
Caching at provider’s site, if possible automatically
(avoid managed storage)
Network
Connection via GEANT
Support of eduGAIN for IT managers
Procurement
Match of cloud providers’ business model with public
procurement rules
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16. Current status
Technical and administrative work well under
way
Consortium agreement signed
Subcommittees established and launched
Tender announced in Jan 2016
Open Market consultation successfully done
on 17 March 2016
Now working on tender documents, both in
commercial and technical terms
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17. Summary
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Helix Nebula Science Cloud is a Pre-Commercial Procurement project with a
budget of more than 5M€ that is co-funded by the European Commission
The objective is to produce a hybrid cloud platform for the European research community
Changes to the procurement process in the public research sector are necessary to
benefit from a dynamic Digital Single Market and should be supported by the
platform
Commercial cloud services are expected to play an increasing role in the
computing models of scientific Research Infrastructures as part of a hybrid cloud
platform
Such a hybrid cloud platform has the potential to serve many ESFRI landmarks and
projects
Helix Nebula Science Cloud is the first in a foreseen series of EC co-funded projects
which will contribute to the European Cloud Initiative
State that the Helix Nebula initiative was created as a result of a commitment by the EIROforum IT Working group when it met in January 2011.
Research organisations from 7 countries have proposed to work together to develop a cross-border joint procurement of innovative cloud services. This is an important change: never before have research organisations across Europe pooled their funds and resources to procure cloud services to support their scientific programmes.
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CTA – Cherenkov Telescope Array An observatory for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy
