The Compute Continuum Working Group aims at defining a metadata schema as extension of the EOSC profile to describe the compute resources in the EOSC resource catalogue. This metadata schema will be a flexible and extensible specification for describing services providing access to generic computing resources covering as much as possible the complete compute continuum: cloud, HTC and HPC and potentially the edge, including access to hardware accelerators (e.g. GPUs) in all these systems whenever available.
Having such specifications should mitigate the lack of standards in the compute service area and provide the basis for inter-operation by enabling the discovery and potentially automated usage of compute services by the user communities. Thanks to this metadata schema, user communities and single users/LToS with computing needs for a specific scientific aim can be triaged and dispatched to the most appropriate kind of compute platform according to their requirements.
For more information please refer to the WG Charter.
Planned Activities
| # | Activity | Output | Due Month (indicative) |
1 | Review of existing Compute-as-a-Service offering in EOSC | Catalogue of services and their characteristics. | M2 |
2 | Review requirements from user communities for Compute-as-a-Service | Technical requirements for the compute services in EOSC from community platforms and services. | M2 |
3 | Analysis of most relevant computing services and identification of attributes to describe them | Draft metadata schema for Compute-as-a-Service service type(s). | M3 |
4 | Presentation of initial results to stakeholders | Initial feedback on specifications. | M3 |
5 | Consultation on the produced metadata schema | Feedback from service providers and user communities. | M4 |
6 | Improving the metadata schema based on feedback | Final specification of the metadata schema and related guidelines . | M6 |
7 | Integration of the metadata schema with the EOSC Resource Profiles | Optional extension of the EOSC Resource Profile for compute resources. | M6 |
8 | Onboarding of the compute resources in EOSC exploiting the extension of the EOSC resource profile for compute resources | EOSC resource catalogue enriched with compute resources from participating providers described following the metadata schema. | M6 |
9 | Final report | A short document summarising the main finding of the WG against the objectives. | M6 |
How to join ?
Send an email to enol.fernandez[at]egi.eu with subject "EOSC FUTURE WG subscription" to be added to the mailing list of the group and be included in the activities.
Participants
Chairs: Enol Fernandez (enol.fernandez at egi.eu)
Members
Enol Fernández, EGI Foundation - EGI-ACE
Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC CEO, ENVRI-FAIR SOB member in EOSC Future.
Juan Miguel González-Aranda, LifeWatch ERIC CTO, ENVRI-FAIR EOSC Future TCB member, LifeWatch ERIC and ERIC FORUM Executive Board
Frederik Coppens, ELIXIR and Galaxy project
Björn Grüning, ELIXIR, Galaxy project and BioContainers
Christian Briese, EODC, C-SCALE Project Director
Raul Palma, PSNC, RELIANCE Project Coordinator
Paolo Manghi, OpenAIRE, OpenAIRE-Nexus coordinator
Isabel Campos, CSIC, EOSC-Synergy Project Coordinator
Juanjo Dañobeitia, EMSO ERIC DG
Ivan Rodero, EMSO ERIC Director, Information Technology and Data Service
Sandro Fiore, University of Trento & IS-ENES
Fabrizio Antonio, CMCC & IS-ENES
Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems
Jerzy Konarski, CloudFerro
Meetings
The group meets every last Friday of the month at 11.30 CET. If you are interested in joining the call please contact the chair for the call details.
Agenda and notes are available in the rolling minutes document at https://docs.google.com/document/d/14A34u5ENM4DRRutyNDUXuvx5peIgiv__YBOiQuM8yLA/edit
Meetings:
Kick Off meeting:
EOSC Future WP3 - T3.3
WG Documented Outputs Template
WP3 Task 3.3 Information
Link to Public Wiki webpage
Working Group Information
Chair:
Members:
Start Date: x
Finish Date: x
Working Group Links
Link to charter document
Link to Public Wiki webpage
Link to minutes
Link to folder