SLICES-RI

SLICES-RI starts the pre-operation phase. SLICES Research Infrastructure (RI) has completed the initial phase of implementation and delivers the first set of research services to scientific communities. SLICES-RI starts the pre-operation phase and offers the following newly developed services: Beyond-5G Blueprint and Federated Learning Blueprint, complemented by supporting services, including the machine learning service and the Basic Infrastructure service, which gives low level access to basic building blocks such as virtual or bare metal machines, GPUs or site interconnectivity. ?? Learn More: https://lnkd.in/dnHi2Uad How to use SLICES pre-operation infrastructure?? The entry point to the SLICES pre-operation infrastructure is through the SLICES Documentation page (https://doc.slices-ri.eu). The web page describes the SLICES offer to scientists and researchers from Academia and Industry and presents the guidelines how to use the infrastructure and services to conduct experiments.? To set up user accounts and projects in SLICES please follow the guidelines in the documentation page and use?https://lnkd.in/dRyEHqQA.?? For more information, refer to the official SLICES Web Page (https://www.slices-ri.eu).? #SLICESRI #ESFRI

Serge Fdida presented SLICES-RI post 5G Blueprint at the O-RAN ALLIANCE meeting that organised in Paris last week during the nGRG workshop. #OAI, # Open6G, #Winlab

Do not miss The Networking Channel event tomottow titled: Report on the Dagsthul Seminar “Research Infrastructures and Tools for Collaborative Networked Systems Research”, with Georg Carle – TUM – Germany, Serge Fdida – Professor of Computer Sciences, Sorbonne Université, Kate Keahey – University of Chicago and Henning Schulzrinne – Columbia University Experimental research on networked and distributed systems requires a suitable research infrastructure to perform experiments. Despite past numerous efforts and initiatives, the community recognizes the obvious shortcomings of the approach and solutions that have been used until recently. A Dagstuhl Seminar was held on November 2024, discussing how to find ways to increase the value and suitability of these research infrastructures. The seminar aimed to support the research community in increasing quality, reproducibility and reuse of research results, and to allow for a more efficient use of research infrastructure resources. Moreover, research infrastructures should evolve towards advanced scientific instruments that offer a vital insight to the underlying information in improvising the understanding of science methodologies and practices as they reliably and precisely help the scientist to measure the subject of their investigations. Register now at: https://lnkd.in/dKRgfaq7

Do not miss The Networking Channel event tomottow titled: Report on the Dagsthul Seminar “Research Infrastructures and Tools for Collaborative Networked Systems Research”, with Georg Carle – TUM – Germany, Serge Fdida – Professor of Computer Sciences, Sorbonne Université, Kate Keahey – University of Chicago and Henning Schulzrinne – Columbia University Experimental research on networked and distributed systems requires a suitable research infrastructure to perform experiments. Despite past numerous efforts and initiatives, the community recognizes the obvious shortcomings of the approach and solutions that have been used until recently. A Dagstuhl Seminar was held on November 2024, discussing how to find ways to increase the value and suitability of these research infrastructures. The seminar aimed to support the research community in increasing quality, reproducibility and reuse of research results, and to allow for a more efficient use of research infrastructure resources. Moreover, research infrastructures should evolve towards advanced scientific instruments that offer a vital insight to the underlying information in improvising the understanding of science methodologies and practices as they reliably and precisely help the scientist to measure the subject of their investigations. Register now at: https://lnkd.in/dKRgfaq7

SLICES-RI together with PAWR office organises a workshop at IFIP Networking 2025 (https://lnkd.in/dgzC92cP). The workshop aims to explore methodologies and platforms that support FAIR data practices and reproducibility in digital infrastructures and Future G Networks; to discuss challenges and opportunities in data-driven research involving AI/ML methodologies; to share best practices and lessons learned from reproducibility-focused initiatives across disciplines; to foster collaboration and innovation to create scalable, low-barrier solutions for data sharing and reproducibility anf to develop, curate, disseminatie and standardise data formats, metadata and archiving principles for large scale data set management. Paper submission is open. Important Dates Paper submission deadline:?March 31, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: May 2, 2025 Workshop: May 26, 2025 Details: https://lnkd.in/dd7Jhw-U

SLICES-RI together with PAWR office organises a workshop at IFIP Networking 2025 (https://lnkd.in/dgzC92cP). The workshop aims to explore methodologies and platforms that support FAIR data practices and reproducibility in digital infrastructures and Future G Networks; to discuss challenges and opportunities in data-driven research involving AI/ML methodologies; to share best practices and lessons learned from reproducibility-focused initiatives across disciplines; to foster collaboration and innovation to create scalable, low-barrier solutions for data sharing and reproducibility anf to develop, curate, disseminatie and standardise data formats, metadata and archiving principles for large scale data set management. Paper submission is open. Important Dates Paper submission deadline:?March 31, 2025 Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: May 2, 2025 Workshop: May 26, 2025 Details: https://lnkd.in/dd7Jhw-U

SLICES-RI supports The 1st Workshop on Research Infrastructures for Experimenting across the HPC-Cloud-Edge Continuum (?https://lnkd.in/dsNzFRdb), which will take place on May 19 2025, Troms?, Norway Important Dates Deadline for papers: Feb 19th, 2025 AoE **new deadline** Acceptance notification: March 3rd, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: March 14th, 2025 The emergence of new opportunities in AI, networking, as well as edge computing and IoT creates the potential for new avenues of exploration in science but at the same time challenges our understanding of the role and shape of infrastructure. An effective exploration of the edge to cloud continuum requires research infrastructure where those challenges can be investigated, and where new solutions and disruptive ideas can be developed, deployed, tested, and shared. Such infrastructure has to not only support a diversity of hardware configurations, deployments at scale, as well as deep reconfigrability so that a wide range of experiments can be supported – but also mechanisms and services that will allow the community to share repeatable digital artifacts so that new experiments and results can be easily replicated and help enable further innovation. This type of research infrastructure (RI) has been implemented in systems like Chameleon CN (www.chameleoncloud.org), SLICES (www.slices-ri.eu), FABRIC, or the PAWR testbeds (www.pawr.org), many of which address distinct, if overlapping, aspects of this problem. This workshop will provide a forum for the RI designers, engineers, and users to discuss emergent use cases and modes of usage; RI solutions and and operations; features that support research in the computing continuum; user interfaces and usability; experimental support for reproducibility; building and sustaining RI user communities; as well as evaluating and sustaining RI.

The Networking Channel supported by SLICES-RI organises the 1st episode of 2025 titled Fireside chat with vint cerf and Bob Metcalfe. Vint Cerf (Internet evangelist at Google and co-inventor of the Internet, Turing award laureate) and Bob Metcalfe (Internet pioneer, Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, Turing award laureate) will discuss their vision about Internet architecture and services evolutions, such as (but not limited to) the Digital Object Architecture, Knowledge Robots (in the context of current AI Agents), the Interplanetary Internet, and the general concept of National and International Information Infrastructure. This discussion will conclude with a Q&A session with Bob and Vint. Register and join our event https://lnkd.in/dhE_6wpw

SLICES-RI supports the organisation of the 1st Workshop on Research Infrastructures for Experimenting across the HPC-Cloud-Edge Continuum ContinuumRI 2025, May 19 2025, Troms?, Norway, which will be organised within the CCGrid2025 conference. Important Dates Deadline for papers: Feb 14th, 2025 AoE Acceptance notification: March 3rd, 2025 Camera-ready deadline: March 14th, 2025 The emergence of new opportunities in AI, networking, as well as edge computing and IoT creates the potential for new avenues of exploration in science but at the same time challenges our understanding of the role and shape of infrastructure. An effective exploration of the edge to cloud continuum requires research infrastructure where those challenges can be investigated, and where new solutions and disruptive ideas can be developed, deployed, tested, and shared. Such infrastructure has to not only support a diversity of hardware configurations, deployments at scale, as well as deep reconfigrability so that a wide range of experiments can be supported – but also mechanisms and services that will allow the community to share repeatable digital artifacts so that new experiments and results can be easily replicated and help enable further innovation. This type of research infrastructure (RI) has been implemented in systems like Chameleon (www.chameleoncloud.org), SLICES (www.slices-ri.eu), FABRIC, or the PAWR testbeds (www.pawr.org), many of which address distinct, if overlapping, aspects of this problem. This workshop will provide a forum for the RI designers, engineers, and users to discuss emergent use cases and modes of usage; RI solutions and and operations; features that support research in the computing continuum; user interfaces and usability; experimental support for reproducibility; building and sustaining RI user communities; as well as evaluating and sustaining RI. Details at: https://lnkd.in/dsNzFRdb #CCGrid2025 #PAWR #SLICES-RI #Chameleon

SLICES-RI all hands meeting took in Madrid hosted by UC3M and IMDEA Networks Institute. The creation of ERIC and the governance of the SLICES together with the commencemnt of the pre-operation of services that started couple of weeks ago were the main issues of the discussion.