AI4EOSC meets the halfway mark
"LIP has successfully coordinated the release of the first version of the AI4EOSC platform. That release combined with the next call for external users marks the project's halfway milestone."
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe call, AI4EOSC stands for Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud. It’s a project that aims to increase the service offer in the EU landscape by expanding the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem to support the effective utilization of state-of-the-art AI techniques by the research community.
LIP has successfully coordinated the release of the first version of the AI4EOSC platform. That release combined with the next call for external users marks the project's halfway milestone in February 2024. The three use cases integrated in the project – agrometeorology, integrated plant protection and thermography– are already using the platform to exploit their data to the fullest and develop artificial intelligence applications according to their needs. Specifically, the platform provides users with their necessary computational requirements, such as memory disk, CPU cores and GPUs.
Throughout the first half of the project several updates have been made to the architecture of the platform, which follows the C4 interactive model and is openly available for consultation. Although the platform has not been launched to the general public yet, it already has dozens of jobs running, including developers and use cases, and a total of 28 GPUs are in use.
Last November, the first user workshop was held in Bratislava (Slovakia) in collaboration with several members from the iMagine project, further strengthening the collaboration of these sister projects. This collaboration emerged from the fact that both platforms make use of AI4OS - the generic software stack, runned by LIP, that drives the implementations of both platforms. One of the LIP’s tasks is to assess the AI4OS software components with rigorous quality assurance criteria through the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) as a Service from the pre-existent EOSC-Synergy Project.
As of today, a total of 8 publications have been produced in the context of the AI4EOSC, 7 of them in high impact journals and the remaining one in an international peer-reviewed conference.
What's next for the project? A new call for external users will be launched soon, as well as a series of webinars covering different topics, from AI and applications to federated learning or MLOps.