The vision of the federated collaboratories will require the development of many layers of abstractions ranging from hardware, networking, federation architecture, scientific workflows, and domain-specific models and tools to enable collaborative discovery. The ERN Architecture and Federation working group are focused on gathering information and discussing what the “federated collaboratory” might look like from both a hardware and software perspective as well as what federation should look like as we strive for a seamless collaborative sharing experience.

As a member of the ERN community, or attendee of the ERN All Hands Meeting in July, we invite you to participate in the Eastern Regional Network’s Architecture and Federation workshop December 2nd - 4th. The workshop is currently scheduled to cover the following topics:

-Authentication, authorization and access

-Data storage and transfer

-Network connectivity

-Federated infrastructures science driver use cases

Discussions following each session’s presentations will help in the understanding of how best to model the federated instrument promoting collaboration and scientific
advancement.

Please click on the event title to learn how to register and to view the workshop schedule.

Breakout session leads will give a high level overview of what was discussed in their respective sessions and the working groups formed.

We believe that the ERN will both benefit from and serve as a testbed for Computer science research. As we strive to develop solutions focused on supporting the vision and mission of the ERN, many of the challenges the ERN will face will lead to questions that ultimately become interesting CS research projects on topics such as ontologies and knowledge representation, workflow analysis, federated AI/ML, domain-specific programming languages, to architecture, networks, systems, and security. The ERN will also become a testbed for CS experiments (Measurement Monitoring, Self Optimizing Systems) and will leverage existing NSF funded projects (FABRIC, Open Cloud, CC*) leading the way to become an instrument to connect other research instruments or platforms. In this session the focus will be on how computer science research can play an important role in defining the ERN and to form a working group to focus on the different CS related projects to be included in the Mid-Scale proposal.