The project aims to engage with communities to collectively elicit requirements around federation within the current DRI A&H landscape.
Three areas of interest are at the project’s core:
- eliciting and validating requirements for federation within the A&H communities;
- identifying existing and emerging user stories, where federation is used or will be of benefit to user workflows on DRI;
- investigating skills gaps and opportunities to scale up existing training and paths to access pool of expertise and experience.
To research the above areas, the project will include the following activities:
- conducting an investigation of data practices and user stories on existing federation practices;
- stakeholders’ event enabling participants to contribute best practices, current needs, workflows, and prediction of future needs regarding DRI federation;
- testing a federated service prototype using HPC infrastructure.
As an outcome, the project will contribute to the development of a strategic roadmap for a national federated compute service including computation and data federation which supports the research of the A&H communities.