Societal challenges
AGINFRA+ addresses the challenge of supporting user-driven design and prototyping of innovative e-infrastructure services and applications. It particularly tries to meet the needs of the scientific and technological communities that work on the multi-disciplinary and multi-domain problems related to agriculture and food.
Technical challenges
AGINFRA+ aims to exploit core e-infrastructures such as EGI.eu, OpenAIRE, EUDAT and D4Science, towards the evolution of theAGINFRA data infrastructure, so as to provide a sustainable channel addressing adjacent but not fully connected user communities around Agriculture and Food. To this end, the project will develop and provide the necessary specifications and components for allowing the rapid and intuitive development of variegating data analysis workflows, where the functionalities for data storage and indexing, algorithm execution, results visualization and deployment are provided by specialized services utilizing cloud based infrastructure(s). Furthermore, AGINFRA+ aspires to establish a framework facilitating the transparent documentation and exploitation and publication of research assets (datasets, mathematical models, software components results and publications) within AGINFRA, in order to enable their reuse and repurposing from the wider research community.
How EOSC can help and add value
A main goal of the early adopter is to create a DataMiner (DM) cluster and make it available to all the communities served by the D4Science infrastructure.
Specific steps:
- Deploy the DM cluster in a single cloud provider and enable EOSC monitoring and accounting
- Develop monitoring probes to check the status of the DM cluster
- Integration of monitoring probes in the EOSC Monitoring service
- Assessment of operational continuity of the application and onboarding of AGINFRA+ VREs in the EOSC Portal.