Better software for better science. INDIGO-DataCloud first demo release
Press release, April 2016 In Cloud computing, both the public and private sectors are offering Cloud resources as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). However, there are numerous areas of interest to scientific communities where Cloud computing uptake is currently lacking, especially at the PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) levels. INDIGO-DataCloud (INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitation), aims at developing a data and computing platform targeting scientific communities, deployable on multiple hardware and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures. “The size of the problem and the amount of computations needed are however main challenges that can only be addressed with proper e-Science solutions.” Dr. Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin, Professor of Computational Structural Biology at Utrecht University, Faculty of Science, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research Several components at the disposal of different scientific communities. INDIGO-DataCloud delivers open source software components tailored to scientific communities and to e-infrastructures, aimed to increase ease of use and effectiveness in the exploitation of Cloud resources by them. INDIGO ready-to-use components can be grouped as: • User-oriented access services (User Interfaces, Mobile Applications, Scientific Portals) • Optimized exploitation of resources across multiple Cloud infrastructures • Seamless and integrated access to geographically distributed data • Improved functionalities in the popular Cloud frameworks OpenNebula and OpenStack In addition, the INDIGO Future Gateway (FG) offers a set of easy to use RESTful APIs to allow portals, mobile appliances and desktop applications to seamlessly exploit different kinds of e-Infrastructures (Grids, Clouds and HPC clusters). @work. INDIGO Champions met the Developers In order to test its technologies, several “Champions” have been identified from each research community participating to the project, to lead different use cases. INDIGO Champions have been at work since January 2016 to provide requirements and tests for the INDIGO technology and to contribute to the release of the INDIGO-DataCloud platform. On 4th and 5th April INDIGO champions and developers met in Amsterdam to discuss implementation details and strategies for INDIGO use cases. The first prototype of the INDIGO architecture was presented for internal evaluation and testing to the communities involved, which are now called to test the list of services and provide feedback to the community of developers. INDIGO-DataCloud offerings to final users INDIGO-DataCloud helps developers, resource providers, e-infrastructures and scientific communities to overcome current challenges in the Cloud computing, storage and network areas. INDIGO allows researchers coming from different scientific communities to access data and use resources as in a “big pool” of computing and storage, without the need to know their type or location or writing specialized software. INDIGO components are essential for resource providers, resource centers and cloud infrastructures managers (such as ESFRI projects) for optimal exploitation of distributed resources. Last but not least, the INDIGO services are being developed according to the requirements collected within many multidisciplinary scientific communities, such as ELIXIR, WeNMR, INSTRUCT, EGI-FedCloud, DARIAH, INAF-LBT, CMCC-ENES, INAF-CTA, LifeWatch-Algae–Bloom, EMSO–MOIST. In this way scientific communities are empowered to build complex tools which, at the same time, can be easily reused by other user communities responding to the same requirements. Save the date. The path towards INDIGO-DataCloud Release Internal demo software release – April 2016 First INDIGO software release - July 2016 Second INDIGO software release - March 2017
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