The first XDC All Hands Meeting will take place on 11-13 September 2018 at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The meeting is open to those involved in XDC work packages.
The meeting aims at bringing together all the staff working on the XDC project, in order to:
- Broaden the knowledge of participants as to what other work packages are doing, and the issues they are facing.
- Identify the areas where the work packages need to collaborate to solve common issues.
- Provide an opportunity for the Developers and the Scientific Communities to meet and define the roadmap toaddress the USe Cases
- Identify key topics within XDC that can read-across EU funded projects like DEEP and EOSC-hub.
The meeting will run from 09:30 to 18:30 of each day, with registration from 09:00 of 11 September. There will a project dinner on the evening of 11 September. The project dinner will be held at KLEINHUIS' Restaurantschiff Bergedorf . Dinner will start at 20:00. There is also an opportunity for additional DEMO, Use Cases and project-related meetings during all the parallel sessions.
The XDC project
The eXtreme DataCloud (XDC) project is aimed at developing scalable technologies for federating storage resources and managing data in highly distributed computing environments. The services provided will be capable of operating at the unprecedented scale required by the most demanding, data intensive, research experiments in Europe and Worldwide. XDC will be based on existing tools (TRL8+) that the project will enrich with new functionalities and plugins already available as prototypes (TRL6). The targeted platforms are the current and next generation e-Infrastructures deployed in Europe, such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and the computing infrastructures that will be funded by the upcoming H2020 EINFRA-12 call. The main high-level topics addressed by the project include: federation of storage resources with standard protocols, smart caching solutions, policy driven data management based on Quality of Service, data lifecycle management, metadata handling and manipulation, data preprocessing and encryption during ingestion, optimized data management based on access patterns. All the developments will be driven and tested against real life use cases provided by the consortium partners representing research communities belonging to a variety of scientific domains: Life Science, Astrophysics, High Energy Physics, Photon Science and Clinical Research. The XDC software will be released as Open Source platforms available for general exploitation.
