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Nov 1, 2024
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The European Commission Announces the EOSC EU Node Moving to Full Production

Nov 1, 2024

Following the success of the recent Technical Launch, the European Commission has just announced the official launch of the EOSC EU Node and its services. The platform promises to support users at every stage of the research lifecycle, aiming towards more extensive collaboration across Europe and fostering innovation throughout the entire research community.

As of today, researchers will now be able to utilise: 

  • Millions of scientific publications, data and software, available for them to discover, access and use.
  • Services and tools from research infrastructures, technology providers, world-leading scientific clusters and more.
  • Free integrated compute, storage and interactive collaboration tools, applications and services at the point of use.
Additionally, researchers can now create their own teams to collaborate on Open Science projects and use the EOSC EU Node infrastructure principles to access various tools, services, and resources designed to streamline and enhance their research efforts. Thanks to these updates and new services, researchers will now be able to accommodate large-scale data, create advanced simulations and execute complex computations, in a single environment.

The new EOSC EU Node services that are available to researchers following the official launch are: 

Bulk Data Transfer: Move data effortlessly to data-intensive execution environments.

Large File Transfer: Streamline large file transfers online with added security and integrity.

Virtual Machines: Design and conduct experiments with flexibility while ensuring reproducibility.

Cloud Container Platform: Deploy cloud-native containerized applications that can easily scale.

Interactive Notebooks: Create and share documents with real-time code execution.

File Sync & Share: Enable automatic file syncing and secure sharing across locations and teams.

The EOSC EU Node is the first European-level node of the EOSC Federation, which will be a network of interconnected nodes, all operating autonomously under a common framework of AAI, standards, and policies and collaborating in harmony. The network will welcome contributions from all over Europe: these will come from resource providers to referred to as “Contributors” within the EOSC EU Node environment. Their input will contain data, software, services, and tools, to be added to the platform and made available to EOSC users on the network. At the same time, as the development of the Node continues, both Contributors as well as users are invited to offer their insights and feedback, via the User or Technology Forum. 

As the EOSC EU Node develops further, more and more services, features and functions will be added, allowing researchers from all over Europe to communicate, exchange data and promote scientific advancement through Open Science.

OpenAIRE contributes to the EOSC EU Node through its key partnership in the Open Science Agora Consortium, which was selected by the European Commission DG-CNECT to build, deploy and operate the Core Capabilities of the EOSC EU Node, as follows:

  • EOSC Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI): A federated trust and identity management framework for EOSC. 
  • Resource Catalogues and Registry Services: Seamless connection and discovery of research objects and catalogues. 
  • Application Workflow Management: A workflow tool to compose and orchestrate infrastructure resources federated into EOSC. 
  • Monitoring and Accounting: Transparent monitoring and accounting information across EOSC.  
  • Helpdesk: Part of the Service Management System proposed for EOSC as a common framework for operationalised environments.

To provide an all-encompassing solution to the European research community, the Open Science Agora Consortium closely collaborates with the organizations developing the complementary Infrastructure and Application services to ensure all services provided from them are seamlessly accessed by all users through the EOSC portal.

Furthermore, OpenAIRE has had the honour of being selected as the authoritative source of data, via the OpenAIRE Graph, for the EOSC EU Node to support discovery, exploration and recommendations of research publications, data, and software within the platform.  As part of this action, the OpenAIRE Graph monitoring infrastructure will be enhanced in two ways. First, by equipping the Graph with tools to identify anomalies surfacing in the metadata that may reveal potential low-quality or malicious publishing practices of researchers. Secondly, by ensuring that feedback on such anomalies reaches the original data sources (all around Europe, institutions or at the national level) and individual researchers to improve publishing workflows and ensure they delivery FAIR metadata and trusted products.  

Follow the evolution of this unique infrastructure and learn all about the new services by visiting the EOSC EU Node website.