Service Classes
Providing services is one of the central ideas of the NFDI. The Marketplace of PUNCH4NFDI will serve as a visible interface to the entire NFDI. As a result of the cooperative work in the different TAs, and based on the deliverables PUNCH4NFDI will develop within the upcoming 5 years, the consortium will provide several large-scale distributed services for the processing and management of scientific data to the users.
The list of reached deliverables is published on the News page at times. More information about the deliverables can be found in our proposal and deliverable reports.
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The PUNCH4NFDI services have been grouped into the following 5 service classes:
- PUNCH central infrastructure
- Data access and management services
- Analysis software and data irreversibility services
- Metadata services
- Computing and storage resource services
These service classes are described below. Details about these service classes and individual services can be found by clicking the titles.
Service Class 1: PUNCH Central Infrastructure
Central to PUNCH4NFDI is comfortable access for the users to all the provided services, offered via the PUNCH Science Data Platform (PUNCH-SDP). All other services mentioned below are an integral part of this single, dedicated platform. Through the marketplace and the data portal these services will be published, including the AAI prototype.
Service Class 2: Data access and management services
Access to PUNCH4NFDI open data archives such as the open data of CERN’s LHC experiments and the IVOA, but also smaller data collections will be offered in the data lake. Dynamic disk cache technology for the integration of opportunistic storage resources will be provided. Data processing will be supported by FTS and Rucio services for evaluation purposes. Specifically, corresponding reference guides will support data producers in publishing their data and software.
Service Class 3: Analysis software and data irreversibility services
For the extraction of high-level information, tools can be found in the PUNCH software repository. Among others, this contains data analysis and simulation routines optimised for multi-GPU systems, a framework for AutoML on scientific data, and a framework for conversion/reading of data for combined analyses on heterogeneous systems. For real- time applications, algorithms optimised for sorting, hardware-specific clustering and pattern recognition, and methods for transforming dynamical archive queries into dynamic filters (and vice versa) will be developed, as well as a generalised toolkit for predictive maintenance and anomaly detection.
Service Class 4: Metadata services
The possibility to build from the research products of PUNCH4NFDI a dynamic knowledge fabric is the next step. The definitions of their functionality and interfaces, prototype metadata schemes, data formats and published and interoperable digital research products using the full range of PUNCH4NFDI services are provided. The corresponding catalogue technology will be accessible for all interested users through the PUNCH-SDP.
Service Class 5: Computing and storage resource services
For efficient data management and analysis, IT resources as provided by Compute4PUNCH are needed. Therefore, interfaces to existing infrastructures are provided, for example, to the supercomputer HLRN. Additionally, small fractions of community-specific resources jointly managed by the COBalD/TARDIS compute resource management software framework will be made available to PUNCH4NFDI and beyond for data analysis. Finally, prototyping interactive analysis via multi-cloud resources will be facilitated for interested users.