Webinar: A shared vision for future data-intensive science in Europe - SRIDA and Technical Blueprint Public Consultation

The SPECTRUM project invites you to the public presentation of the first version of the Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda (SRIDA) and Technical Blueprint for a European compute and data continuum for Radio Astronomy and High Energy Physics.

These two key project outputs define a shared vision and agenda for future data-intensive science in Europe, addressing the computing challenges, gaps and opportunities in high-energy physics, radio astronomy and beyond, and how scientific communities, infrastructure providers and policy makers facing similar challenges can tackle them.

The webinar will introduce the main outcomes, highlight strategic priorities, and outline the proposed recommended actions for the scientific and e-infrastructure communities.

Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda

The  SRIDA will define the vision, overall goals, main technical and non-technical priorities, investment areas and a research, innovation and deployment agenda for data-intensive science and infrastructures. While the core focus will be on the challenges of High Energy Physics (HEP) and Radio Astronomy (RA), the project will validate proposed technical and strategic solutions with other data-intensive science cases to ensure that other disciplines with similar challenges can benefit from the project results.

This presentation will provide the first version of the SRIDA that built on  preliminary work on use cases, landscape analysis and access policies, the early feedback from SPECTRUM Community of Practice and extended feedback coming from interviews to experts and public events. The presentation will introduce the selected strategic foresight methodology along with the identified technical and non-technical priorities and the pathway for the future implementation from short, mid and longer terms and the investment needed. The main aim is to align those with the community to ensure the adoption of SRIDA’s recommendations for the future plans of Scientific Communities, eInfrastructures and related European policies.

Technical Blueprint for a European compute and data continuum. 

HEP and RA are two scientific domains that rely heavily on scientific computing in the compute continuum, integrating high-performance computing, data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data logistics, to achieve their research objectives. However, both domains face significant challenges in terms of computing capacity and capability, software co-design and refactoring, data management and logistics across the Edge-Cloud/HPC continuum, and workforce capacity and expertise.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Technical Blueprint which has emerged following a broad consultation with RA and HEP communities and their supporting data infrastructure providers through the SPECTRUM Community of Practice. The goals of the document will be presented along with a summary of the reference sources that formed its foundation. A summary of the technical recommendations for a European compute and data continuum will be presented, along with actions that could be taken to ensure sustainability. A capability map will be shown that provides an overview of the elements that will likely be necessary to ensure that the continuum delivers the elements required for future data processing by RA and HEP communities.