PUNCH4NFDI Annual Meeting 2025

Event review

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At its recent Annual Meeting (19/20 November at AIP, Potsdam) the PUNCH4NFDI Consortium reviewed its work progress and took stock of the tasks still ahead for the first funding period - i.e. the coming roughly 10 months.

Topics discussed in the presentations by task areas include the following:

  • overview of the currently available federated infrastructure, including a monitoring dashboard for the compute resources
  • progress on current use cases implemented on the federated infrastructure, including a stress test of running 20,000 jobs
  • progress and challenges while integrating a REANA workflow into a web application
  • updates on the implementation of digital research products (DRPs), the planned DRP hub as well as the DRP metadata schema
  • tools to improve FAIR data analysis in particle physics
  • status of developments related to the handling of big data and real-time analysis, including prototype dynamic filtering and dynamic archives as well as machine learning models and their implementation
  • Citizen Science projects: What is Citizen Science and what is it not? How can one contribute to a Citizen Science project or start a new one?
  • first preliminary results of the currently ongoing survey on PUNCH4NFDI services (clilck here to participate)

 

Complemented were these presentations by a panel discussion on “The future of NFDI” with special guests Barbara Ebert (NFDI4Biodiversity, GFBIO e.V.) and Bernhard Miller (KonsortSWD & Base4NFDI, GESIS) who discussed together with the PUNCH4NFDI spokepersons Andreas Haungs (KIT) and Thomas Schoerner (DESY).

The coming efforts are designed, as much as possible, to also facilitate a smooth transition into the second funding period of "PUNCH-2.0". In light of these discussions, the consortium also celebrated itself for a pleasant and hopefully successful evaluation at the DFG on 13 November.