HIFIS Generic/Management

Platformwide Agreement in Working Groups(Helmholtz AI, HIP, HMC, HIDA)

  • Outreach and Homepage: Providing the new HIFIS-Webpage:
    • Using CI/CD Workflow
    • Providing content for particular customer types (German/Non-german Scientists, Stakeholder, Domain specific jouranlists, Representatives of international IT Inititatives)
    • HIFIS legt aktuell vor (weil: relativ weit fortgeschritten), weitere Absprachen v.a. mit HMC und HIP ongoing (evtl auch AI).

  • Voucher-System for Helmholtz.AI

  • Large Scale Data Transfer with customers at Helmholtz.AI

  • Demonstrator ongoing with dCache@DESY as active instance, HZDR as passive endpoint
    • Actual Use Case: Arbitrary center produces data in the order of magnitude >100GB and ~6 Helmholtz.AI centers analyse/process the data locally.
    • dCache -centralized or in multiple instances- mediates and decouples the connections on demand.

Although the official realease of HIFIS-/Helmholtz cloud services will take some time (scheduled in Q4), many pilot services are being used provisionally by (almost) all Helmholtz centers: Mattermost chat, Sync’n’share, gitlab - with CI/CD for website, technical documentation and the technical platform, Zammad for Helpdesk, dCache (FTS), Wiki… - In short, it can’t progress fast enough because everyone wants those services

Inkubator-Workshop in June

  • Progress of HIFIS found to be very positive;
  • Outward communication could be increased (-> outreach, see above)
  • Usefulness for Helmholtz’s digitalisation strategy has been emphasized.

AAI (Helmholtz-wide authentication and authorisation)

Rebranding of “HDF AAI” to “Helmholtz AAI” will be finalised on the technical side on 24th of July 2020

  • new domain: login.helmholtz.de
  • Service providers connected with the HDF AAI (dev and production) should have been pre-warned by Sander Apweiler@JSC

Infrastructure policies

  • Have been finalised in a first round end of June and have been reviewed by the coordinators
  • Major review: Second round almost done, should be finished by 24th of July 2020

EGI conference in November

Abstract regarding the interaction of HIFIS backbone’s authentication and authorisation infrastructure (coordinated by DESY) with high-performance HAICORE technology in Jülich and Karlsruhe, as well as scientific tenderings of Helmholtz.AI.

HIFIS, The technical Platform

FEMI and our colleagues from Berlin are working now working on the backend for awhile. Carsten is providing test infrastructure with simulated meta data from the various service types. The HTML layout is mockup and follows the currently agreed design of the HIFIS page.

HIFIS Backbone

Backbone is building a demonstrator to provide high speed, reliable data transfer between Helmholtz Centers and possibly outside. It is envisioned to use the CERN FTS software. We would like to use the EGI FTS services, located at CERN or STFC.

  • As a first setup, we are using a dCache at DESY and a regular Apache at HZDR.
  • dCache -zentral oder in multiplen Instanzen- vermittelt und bei Bedarf entkoppelt die Verbindungen.
  • Christian V. tries to convince our colleagues from HZDF to go for a distributes dCache in the long run, like the Great Lake Tier2 in the US.
  • Paul provided a writeup of the FTS/dCache setup.
  • Tim currently tried to get Apache to work with different OIDC providers, IAM (Bologna), CheckIn (EGI) and Unity (Juelich)
  • The goal is of course to use the Helmholtz AAI to access FTS and the storage endpoints.
  • If this setup is succesful, we are planing to integrate the RUCIO data management system to allow policy driven data management between Helmhotlz centers.

Imaging Team

MDLMA

Last week there was the kick off meeting of the second group of partners of the MDLMA (Multi-task Deep Learning for Large-scale Multimodal Biomedical Image Analysis) BMBF project. The project is already running since Jan 2020. DESY will join Jan 2021. MDLMA is a joint research project of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, the University of Lübeck (U zL) and the company Syntellix AG. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant number 031L0202A. The project is lead and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Regine Willumeit-Römer and DD r. Julian Moosmann. We are currently hiring. At the time being we received more than 100 applications.

HIP

HIP people contacted the DLR to negogiate access to their extensive instrument database. Besides techincal issues, access rights have to be solved first.

ExPaNDS

  • Last week we had our 3rd CB meeting. (All partner representatives)
  • We discussed the implications of COVID on the project and decided for
    • Extend the project by 6 months.
    • Reschedule the deliverables and milestones to match the current resources, available.
  • We submitted an ExPaNDS/PaNOSC proposal to ICT 2020 in Cologne, but unfortunately the conference was cancelled.

XDC, ESCAPE and DOMA

Reminder ESCAPE

  • ESCAPE is an EU project to provide computing and storage prototypes for “High Lumi” LHC and for challenging Astro projects like the Square Kilometer Array.
  • Paul is leading the ESCAPE QoS Task within WP2 (DIOS)
  • Aleem is coordinating the necessary testinfrastructure.

XDC (eXtreme DataCloud)

  • After the successful final review of the XDC project, Paul is invited to report on his work package at the WLCG Grid Deployment Board.

LHC Data Organizaion, Management and Access

  • CERN R&D is reviewing on how CERN handles the HIGH LUMI challenge. The review coveres DOMA too.
    • It is suggested to providing concrete use cases and user stories.
    • DOMA QoS is producing demonstrators.
  • DOMA Third Party Copy seems to go for HTTP.