Completed international projects

Full name: Integration and consolidation of the existing pan-European access mechanism to public research infrastructures and commercial services through the EOSC Portal
Duration: 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024
Aim: Through the development of the EOSC Portal, the project aimed to extend the EOSC ecosystem, integrate existing scientific infrastructures and initiatives, and engage new field and national research communities. The challenges posed in the project were primarily aimed at further improving the quality of the EOSC ecosystem, so that it supported the development of science in Europe in the best possible way and gained more and more trust and recognition in the eyes of European scientists.
The project was a continuation of the achievements of previous EOSC projects, it also drew on the guidelines developed by bodies established in EOSC Governance (including the EOSC Executive Board (EB), EOSC Working Groups (WGs)).
Contact: Roksana Wilk, e-mail: r.wilk (at) cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48)12 6323355, ext. 313.
More info: https://eoscfuture.eu/

The EOSC Future project is co-funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 - Grant Agreement Number 101017536.

Full name: Fast and Intuitive Data Retrieval for Earth Observation
Duration: 01.02.2021 – 31.07.2023
Aim: The main aim of the FINDR project was to deliver transparent and unified access to Earth Observation Data, primarily sattellite data, in order to support food production and food and agriculture industry.
The most important assumptions included:

• creating an integrated and transparrent overview of the data from the main Earth observation systems, in order to allow faster decision making
• ensuring accurate short-term forecasts regarding the availability of sattellite data, which would allow to take the proper actions in case of missing regions by the use of alternative data sources
• collision-free integration of sattellite data from various sources, giving the possibility to time-space complement of existing and future products.

THE PROJECT IS COFINANCED BY NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN ERA-NET COFUND PROGRAMME

Full name: EGI Advanced Computing for EOSC
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 30.06.2023
Aim: The aim of the project was to expand the computing infrastructure enabling cooperation in the area of high-intensity problems connecting large volumes of data, which cross the boundaries of a single data center.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka (at) cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48)126333426
More info: https://www.egi.eu/projects/egi-ace/

EGI-ACE receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101017567.

Full name: PRedictive In-silico Multiscale Analytics to support cancer personalized diaGnosis and prognosis, Empowered by imaging biomarkers
Duration: 1.12.2018 - 31.05.2023
Aim: The PRIMAGE project aimed at creation of a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for the treatment of cancer (nauroblastoma, glioma) in children. The system was based on use the HPC infrastructure. Patients' data will be used in the multi-scale computational models of cancer designed to define disease biomarkers. The created CDSS system helps oncologists both in diagnosis and in predicting of disease progression and treatment effectiveness.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak (at) agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 328 33 56
More info: https://www.primageproject.eu/

The PRIMAGE project is co-funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 - Grant Agreement Number: 826494.

Full name: European Plate Observing System Sustainability Phase – EPOS SP
Duration: 1.02.2020 - 30.04.2023
Aim: The purpose of the EPOS-SP project was to develop and implement assumptions to ensure the sustainability of the EPOS infrastructure produced in previous projects (EPOS-PP and EPOS-IP). The project covered both technical and financial issues as well as management within the EPOS-ERIC structure.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://www.epos-eu.org/projects/epos-sp

The EPOS SP - project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 871121.

Full name: PRACE 6th Implementation Phase Project
Duration: 1.05.2019 - 31.12.2022
Aim: The goal of the project was to implement new solutions and maintain the operationality of the PRACE environment in the area of European HPC computing infrastructures.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka (at) cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://prace-ri.eu/about/ip-projects/#PRACE6IP

Grant agreement number: 823767.

Full name: National Competence Centers in the framework of EuroHPC
Duration: 1.09.2020 - 31.12.2022
Aim: The main goal of the EuroCC project was to create a European technological support system based on closely related National Competence Centers in individual European countries, which will allow the academic environment, the enterprise sector (especially SMEs) and public administration to benefit from the available expertise, experience and resources of EuroHPC.
Contact: Marek Magryś, e-mail: m.magrys (at) cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cc.eurohpc.pl/

This project has received funding from The National Centre for Research and Development within the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732. 

Full name: European Open Science Cloud - Expanding Capacities by building Capabilities
Duration: 01.09.2019 - 31.10.2022
Aim: The EOSC-Synergy project introduces EOSC standards for national infrastructures in nine European Union countries. This was be done by harmonizing policies and expanding access to research infrastructures, scientific data and domain services.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://www.eosc-synergy.eu/

EOSC-synergy receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857647.

Full name: Enhancing the EOSC portal and connecting thematic clouds
Duration: 1.12.2019 - 30.11.2021
Aim: The EOSC Enhance project aimed to build an improved, more integrated version of the EOSC Portal, which enabled improvement and extension of solutions that make it easier to find European scientific services and open science data sets.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://www.eosc-portal.eu/enhance

Full name: Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud
Duration: 1.01.2018 - 31.03.2021
Aim: The aim of the EOSC-hub project was to prepare the launch of a production infrastructure for open science in Europe. The implementation was based on existing services representing TRL8 level and above. In addition, there are many integration activities enabling the activation of various environmental groups, giving them the opportunity to properly integrate with the European cloud.
However, the most important goal was the practical application of solutions developed as part of the EOSC-Pilot project to a real large-scale environment scattered across most European countries.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.eosc-hub.eu/

Full name: PROviding Computing solutions for ExaScale ChallengeS
Duration: 1.11.2017 - 31.10.2020
Aim: The solutions developed within the PROCESS (PROviding Computing solutions for ExaScale ChallengeS) project are a breakthrough step in the creation of innovative, exascale processing services, maximizing the benefits of modern data processing systems. The results of the project include five prototype large-scale data management services implemented using mature, modular, extensible open source solutions to create a user-friendly data processing platform.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 328 33 56
More info: https://www.process-project.eu/

Full name: eXtreme DataCloud
Duration: 1.11.2017 - 30.04.2020
Aim: The goal of the XDC (eXtreme DataCloud) project was to build specialized solutions for managing and processing large-scale data in a hybrid cloud, thus introducing access and data migration in distributed cloud environments.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.extreme-datacloud.eu/

Full name: Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe
Duration: 1.05.2017 - 30.04.2020
Aim: The overall objective of SERA was to give a significant contribution to improve the access to data, services and research infrastructures, and deliver solutions based on innovative R&D in seismology and earthquake engineering, aiming at reducing the exposure of our society to the risk posed by natural and anthropogenic earthquakes.
Contact: Mariusz Sterzel, e-mail: m.sterzel at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55 ext. 314
More info: http://www.sera-eu.org/

Full name: EPOS Implementation Phase
Duration: 1.10.2015 - 30.09.2019
Aim: EPOS is integrating the diverse, but advanced European Research Infrastructures for solid Earth Science, and builds on new e-science opportunities to monitor and understand the dynamic and complex solid-Earth System. The EPOS Implementation Phase project (EPOS IP) built on the achievements of the successful EPOS preparatory phase project (EPOS PP); it was dedicated to realize the key elements of the EPOS implementation phase: the legal and governance framework, the financial framework for all its components, and a successful transition from the preparatory phase to the operational phase, being synergetic and coherent with the establishment of the EPOS-ERIC.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55

Full name: The European Open Science Cloud for Research Pilot Project
Duration: 1.01.2017 - 31.05.2019
Aim: The project supported the first phase of the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) project by developing the foundation of the Open Science Cloud for Research, which enabled to easily combine multiple types of resources. In addition, a number of experimental pilot projects was carried out to demonstrate future solutions. Within the project, a deep analysis of the problem of open science management on the Europen scale was carried out, with a proposal of a new target model.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://eoscpilot.eu/

Full name: Authentication and Authorisation For Research and Collaboration
Duration: 1.05.2017 - 30.04.2019
Aim: The goal of AARC2 was to design an AAI (authentication and authorisation infrastructure) framework to develop interoperable AAI, to enable researchers to access the whole research and infrastructure service portfolio with one login. AARC2's objectives involved: 1) enabling federated access in research communities participating in AARC2, 2) assisting research communities to map their requirements to concrete service offerings, 3) supporting research (e-)infrastructures to implement the integrated architecture and policies frameworks developed by AARC project, 4) offering different training to adopt AARC/AARC2 results, 5) enhancing the integrated architecture.
Contact: Mariusz Sterzel, e-mail: m.sterzel at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55 ext. 314
More info: http://aarc-project.eu/

Full name: PRACE 5th Implementation Phase Project
Duration: 1.01.2017 - 30.04.2019
Aim: The objectives of PRACE-5IP were to build on and seamlessly continue the successes of PRACE and start new innovative and collaborative activities proposed by the consortium. These included: 1) assisting the transition to PRACE2 including analysis of TransNational Access, 2) strengthening the internationally recognised PRACE brand, 3) continuing and extending advanced training which so far provided more than 18 800 persontraining days, 4) preparing strategies and best practices towards Exascale computing, 5) coordinating and enhancing the operation of the multi-tier HPC systems and services, 6) supporting users to exploit massively parallel systems and novel architectures.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.prace-ri.eu/prace-5ip/

Full name: Personalised Decision Support for Heart Valve Disease
Duration: 1.02.2016 - 31.01.2019
Aim: Valvular Heart Disease currently affects 2.5% of the population, but is overwhelmingly a disease of the elderly and consequently on the rise. It is dominated by two conditions, Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation, both of which are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, yet which pose a truly demanding challenge for treatment optimisation. By combining multiple complex modelling components developed in recent EC-funded research projects, a comprehensive, clinically-compliant decision-support system was developed to meet this challenge, by quantifying individualised disease severity and patient impairment, predicting disease progression, ranking the effectiveness of alternative candidate procedures, and optimising the patient-specific intervention plan. This algorithmically-driven process dramatically improved outcomes and consistency across Europe in this fast-growing patient group, maximising individual, societal and economic outcomes.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 328 33 56
More info: http://www.eurvalve.eu/

Full name: A Centre for New Methods in Computational Diagnostics and Personalised Therapy
Duration: 1.09.2017 - 31.08.2018
Aim: The project developed a Business Case to establish in Poland Europe's first Centre for simulation-driven healthcare Decision Support. The Centre's mission comprised development of new computation-based solutions for diagnostics and therapy in daily healthcare to improve personalised patient treatment, enhanced growth of SMEs which deal with technologies and services for novel personalised diagnostics and treatment strategies, as well as strong advancement of algorithms, models and technologies involved in personalised medicine.
The project aimed to develop a Business Plan establishing the Centre and enabling it to achieve measurable success through introduction of a number of solutions based on computational models to clinical trials, development of a number of new market-ready products and services based on innovations, authoring highly cited scientific papers, obtaining patents and securing grants.
The Plan wias based on the Polish Specialisation Strategy and was elaborated by two Polish partners: ACC Cyfronet AGH (experts in simulation and computing infrastructures for science) and Klaster LifeScience Kraków (top cluster of industry, academia and hospitals in the life sciences domain), in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and Insigneo Institute (experts in translation of in silico modelling and simulations to clinics), Forschungszentrum Jülich (experts in innovative HPC and data techniques for science and industry) and Fraunhofer ISI (experts in systemic multi-domain solutions and innovation in medicine).
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 328 33 56

Duration: 1.02.2015 - 31.12.2017
Aim: The PRACE-4IP project was designed to build on and seamlessly continue the successes of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and start new innovative and collaborative activities. These included: assisting the transition to PRACE 2; strengthening the internationally recognised PRACE brand; preparing strategies and best practices towards exascale computing, coordinating and enhancing the operation of the multi-tier HPC systems and services, and supporting and educating users to exploit massively parallel systems and novel architectures.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.prace-ri.eu/prace-fourth-implementation-phase-prace-4ip-project/

Duration: 1.04.2015 - 30.09.2017
Aim: The project aimed at the development of the PaaS (Platform as a Service) environment, which enabled to conduct the large-scale calculations, integrating the grid and cloud resources and providing unified access to computing- and data storage resources.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://www.indigo-datacloud.eu

Duration: 1.03.2015 - 31.08.2017
Aim: The aim of the project was to accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons by expanding the capabilities of a European backbone of federated services for computing, storage, data, communication, knowledge and expertise, complementing community-specific capabilities.
Contact: Mariusz Sterzel, e-mail: m.sterzel at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55 ext. 314
More info: https://www.egi.eu/about/egi-engage/

Duration: 1.07.2013 - 31.10.2016
Aim: The main objective of the project was the development of a model-based predictor system, "VirtRoll", supporting the flexible design of strip rolling, joining functionality of numerical simulations, material modelling (metamodelling), sensitivity analysis and optimization to minimize costs related to the design of production processes and to optimize the properties of semi and final products.
Contact: Łukasz Rauch, e-mail: lrauch at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 38 75

Duration: 1.09.2012 - 31.08.2015
Aim: The aim of the project was to adapt the standards and best ITSM (IT Service Management) practices to the federated infrastructures. Project activities included aspects of staff management and training (training track), management processes and supporting technologies.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.fedsm.eu/

Duration: 1.03.2011 - 31.05.2015
Aim: The main objective of the VPH-Share project was creation and implementation of a platform for the sharing of scientific applications implemented by the members of a European Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) consortium, as well as to adapt existing applications and data repositories for sharing within the framework of the aforementioned platform.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/269978/results

Duration: 1.05.2010 - 31.12.2014
Aim: The aim of the project was to provide and maintain a sustainable European Grid Infrastructure through the cooperation of a number of institutions in more than 40 countries, building the National Grid Infrastructures. With the latest technological advances and hardware base of the national e-Infrastructures, EGI-InSPIRE is the ideal candidate that could connect distributed computational resources (Distributed Computing Infrastructures) – such as computing clouds, networks of supercomputers and grids – for use by the scientific communities in the European Research Area.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.egi.eu/about/egi-inspire/

Duration: 1.10.2010 - 30.09.2013
Aim: The aim of the MAPPER project was to create computational strategies, services and software to support multi-scale simulations in many disciplines of science, using existing and emerging European computing e-Infrastructures (EGI, DEISA). Within the MAPPER project it was planned to support the seven applications from the representative areas of science (nuclear physics, medicine, systems biology, nanotechnology, and hydrology).
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/261507

Duration: 1.12.2009 - 1.12.2012
Aim: The result of the project was developed methodology and prototypes of a system which allow verification and analysis of various approaches to urban areas, taking into account also the sociological and psychological aspects of human behavior in conflict situations.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55

Duration: 1.12.2009 - 30.11.2012
Aim: The aim of the project was to create a universal IT service platform, available on-line for Early Warning Systems (EWS), which purpose is to warn from the effects of natural disasters; such a platform is capable of processing data coming from large-scale sensor networks via the Internet.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://urbanflood.eu/Pages/default.html

Duration: 1.09.2010 - 31.08.2012
Aim: The aim of the project was to develop a model of service level management (SLM) for grid computing environments, and other federated environments. The project consortium united grid computing experts and IT service management experts, so that the proposed SLM model was adapted to the needs of modern computing environments.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/261547

Duration: 1.04.2008 - 1.04.2010
Aim: Within the EGEE-III project preparations were started for the establishment of a permanent, stable organizational structure, in cooperation with state NGI (National Grid Infrastructures) structures and EGI_DS (European Grid Infrastructure Design Study) project, under the 7th Framework Programme.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55

Duration: 1.03.2006 - 28.02.2009
Aim: The project aim was to develop a virtual laboratory for infectious diseases, facilitating the acquisition of medical knowledge and supporting decision making process.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.virolab.org

Duration: 1.10.2006 - 30.09.2008
Aim: The aim of the project was to build a Grid Application Development Platform. The platform was a tool for the construction of new applications. Created applications were differentiated by using the concept of virtual organizations and distributed data sharing, both purely numerical and multimedia.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: http://www.gredia.eu

Duration: 1.09.2004 - 31.08.2008
Aim: Within the project a European research network was created for the development of theoretical basis of software infrastructure and applications for large-scale distributed computations, as well as grid and peer-to-peer systems.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: Cordis web site

Duration: 1.05.2006 - 30.04.2008
Aim: The project aimed at the development of advanced infrastructure in the European Research Area, aimed at support of running interactive, demanding applications.
Contact: Łukasz Dutka, e-mail: l.dutka at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: Cordis web site

Duration: 1.04.2006 - 31.03.2008
Aim: The aim of the EGEE-II project was a continuation of EGEE project goals, and in particular: the creation of a pan-European grid computing infrastructure, further increasing the resources of this infrastructure - the number of processors and storage capacity and improvement of the stability of the infrastructure.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/031688

Duration: 1.01.2006 - 31.12.2007
Aim: The aim of the project was to create a network, providing and integrating multimedia services in heterogeneous mobile environments, providing a dynamic composition of the existing networks, depending on user's requirements.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: Cordis web site

Duration: 1.09.2004 - 28.02.2007
Aim: The project was designed to work on a system for grid applications development, based on knowledge and accumulated experience. The project consortium has developed and implemented a system that allowed (among other things) semi-automatic generation of applications (using grid services) based on the knowledge accumulated from past implementations and execution of finished workflow applications in the grid environment.
Contact: Marian Bubak, e-mail: bubak at agh.edu.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: Cordis web site

Duration: 1.04.2004 - 31.03.2006
Aim: The aim of the project was the integration of national grids (regional and thematic ones) to create an infrastructure supporting so-called European Research Area (ERA). The EGEE project was intended to use achievements of previous EU projects (such as DataGrid, CrossGrid, DataTAG and others) and lead to the creation of the first on such a large scale, coherent and secure Grid, enabling users access to vast computing resources, independent of their geographic location .
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: Cordis web site

Duration: 1.04.2002 - 31.03.2005
Aim: The purpose of the project was the coordination of the following grid projects: AVO, CrossGrid, DAMIEN, DataGrid, DataTAG, EGSO, EuroGrid, GRIA, GridLab and GRIP for the transfer of technology, experience and expertise among the partners of the consortium and to represent its views while setting international standards.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/IST-2001-34808

Duration: 1.03.2002 - 28.02.2005
Aim: The project aim was to develop and implement new tools and services used to run interactive applications, which required high computing power and large data collections in the grid environment.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: Cordis web site

Duration: 1.07.2002 - 31.12.2004
Aim: The aim of the project was to create a platform for the promotion and dissemination of advanced concepts of medical telematics in EU Newly Associated States and for the transfer of EU solutions, practices and experiences.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/IST-2001-38626

Duration: 1.03.2002 - 31.10.2004
Aim: The purpose of the project was to develop a universal software platform for supporting the activities of medium and high-level employees, changing workplace within the organizational structure of the public sector.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/IST-2001-34519

Duration: 1.01.2001 - 31.12.2002
Aim: The project dealt with wireless and wired communication in IP networks (Internet and intranets) with the protocol in version 6. Strictly technical part of this project was completed with application tasks, regarding the use of mobile access to the Internet in medicine.
Contact: e-mail: cyfronet at cyfronet.pl, phone: (+48 12) 632 33 55
More info: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/IST-2000-25153