EGI-ACE Call for Use Cases

Who should apply

The target audience of this call are international researchers, research projects, communities and infrastructures, as well as national research groups who need services and support for:

• Large-scale data processing, scientific analysis, visualisation
• Hosting data analysis platforms and applications in the cloud to offer them for international use cases
• Federate and make accessible community-specific compute services in EOSC

Applications for the call are welcomed from academic or industrial researchers at any level, from postgraduate students to the most senior researchers, who are working on or support non-proprietary research in any discipline where access to compute facilities is beneficial. Projects and research infrastructures that do not have access to similar facilities are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants must be working in a research institute based in an eligible country (i.e. any EU member state or Associated State), OR must be submitted on behalf of a research project/experiment/collaboration that includes partners from eligible countries.

Note that applicants are NOT eligible for visits to the centres involved in this action.

The offering

The project offers compute and storage resources, compute platform services, data management services and related user support and training through this call. Majority of the services are sponsored (pre-paid) for the users by the European Commission and by national funding agencies. Some of the services are offered by commercial entities on a pay-for-use basis.

The total capacity that EGI-ACE makes available through the call between 2021-2023 is 80 Million CPU hours, 250,000 GPU hours and 20 PB storage. Additional resources are allocated to applicants through national compute centres and companies that participate in EGI-ACE.

The portfolio of services offered to applicants include:

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds, High Throughput Compute, High Performance Compute and storage resources of the hundreds of centres participating in the EGI federation.
• Cloud and High Throughput Compute services from international partners:  OSG (USA), CNIC (China), IDIA (South Africa), GRENA (Georgia), RENAM (Moldova), IMCS UL (Latvia), ELKH Cloud (Hungary), ASGC (Taiwan).
• Commercial cloud services from T-Systems and CloudFerro.
• A portfolio of scientific tools, applications and virtual machine images that can be used and customised on the infrastructure resources for your analysis.
• Platform services to manage complex workloads,  to train AI models, to deploy automated clusters, to run containerised applications, to perform interactive analysis with Notebooks.
• Data management services to transfer, to catalogue, to cache and, federate data across multiple compute and data sites.
• Federation services to manage user access, to monitor service availability-reliability, to measure CPU and storage usage.
• Network of experts who can help you port custom analytics and simulation applications and scientific datasets to the infrastructure, to operate applications and scientific services in the cloud.

More information about the Timeline, Submissions and Contact information can be found here: https://www.egi.eu/projects/egi-ace/call-for-use-cases/

This post has first appeared on the EGI website.