Project description
Advanced computing platform for open and data-driven science
EGI-ACE is an EU-funded project coordinated by the EGI Foundation with a mission to empower researchers from all disciplines to collaborate on data- and compute-intensive research through free-at-point-of-use services. Building on the distributed computing integration in the EOSC-hub project, EGI-ACE will deliver the EOSC Compute Platform and contribute to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools and federated access services. Over 30 months, the project is expected to provide more than 82 million CPU hours, 250 thousand GPU hours for data processing and analytics, and 45 PB/month for hosting and exploiting research data.
Objective
EGI-ACE empowers researchers from all disciplines to collaborate in data- and compute-intensive research across borders through free at point of use services. Building on the distributed computing integration in EOSC-hub, it delivers the EOSC Compute Platform and contributes to the EOSC Data Commons through a federation of Cloud compute and storage facilities, PaaS services and data spaces with analytics tools and federated access services.
The Platform is built on the EGI Federation, the largest distributed computing infrastructure for research. The EGI Federation delivers over 1 Exabyte of research data and 1 Million CPU cores which supported the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the first observation of gravitational waves, while remaining open to new members.
The Platform pools the capacity of some of Europe’s largest research data centres, leveraging ISO compliant federated service management. Over 30 months, it will provide more than 82 M CPU hours and 250 K GPU hours for data processing and analytics, and 45 PB/month to host and exploit research data. Its services address the needs of major research infrastructures and communities of practice engaged through the EOSC-hub project. The Platform advances beyond the state of the art through a data-centric approach, where data, tools and compute and storage facilities form a fully integrated environment accessible across borders thanks to Virtual Access.
The Platform offers heterogeneous systems to meet different needs, including state of the art GPGPUs and accelerators supporting AI and ML, making the Platform an ideal innovation space for AI applications. The data spaces and analytics tools are delivered in collaboration with tens of research infrastructures and projects, to support use cases for Health, the Green Deal, and fundamental sciences.
The consortium builds on the expertise and assets of the EGI federation members, key research communities and data providers, and collaborating initiatives.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarecomputer processors
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyobservational astronomygravitational waves
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicshiggs bosons
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100190 BEJING
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01513 Vilnius
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94607 OAKLAND CA
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11528 TAIPEI
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30-059 Krakow
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03143 KIEV
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1211 GENEVE 23
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160 00 Praha 6
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50121 FIRENZE
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73100 Lecce
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75794 Paris
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28006 Madrid
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15705 Santiago De Compostela
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46022 Valencia
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22607 Hamburg
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80686 Munchen
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79098 Freiburg
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64291 Darmstadt
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76131 Karlsruhe
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981 92 Kiruna
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00143 Roma
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3012 Bern
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11523 Athina
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10024 Athina
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077125 MAGURELE ILFOV
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1113 Sofia
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845 07 Bratislava
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1000 Ljubljana
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Lisboa
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00044 Frascati
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00185 Roma
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3004 516 Coimbra
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1700-066 LISBOA
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2632 BD Nootdorp
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3526 KV Utrecht
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1050 Elsene
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10000 Zagreb
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3511 EP Utrecht
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3584 CS Utrecht
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1111 Budapest
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06100 Ankara
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1040 Wien
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1000 Skopje
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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OX14 3DB Abingdon
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BS1 6NB Bristol
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