The HEREDITARY project has been granted 40,000 credits from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC EU Node) to support, among other things, its federated learning activities within a secure European research infrastructure.
About the EOSC EU Node
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC EU Node) is the operational platform of the EOSC Federation, designed to facilitate open, collaborative and data-driven research in Europe. It supports multidisciplinary scientific work by providing access to digital research services such as computing and storage resources, containerized environments, and collaborative tools through institutional credentials. The platform promotes the sharing and reuse of research outputs in a secure, GDPR-compliant cloud ecosystem based on FAIR data principles and a credit-based access model.
The awarded credits will be used to deploy and maintain the central server required for federated learning experiments on EOSC virtual machines. Federated learning allows multiple institutions to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing sensitive data. By using EOSC infrastructure, HEREDITARY can efficiently manage firewall configurations and incoming connections, overcoming common technical barriers associated with institutional IT restrictions.
The EOSC EU Node credits will support several weeks of experimentation, with server configurations adapted to different model sizes and algorithmic requirements. In parallel, HEREDITARY is exploring the development of an API-based solution that would allow researchers to deploy experiment-specific software containers through the EOSC Cloud Container platform. This approach aims to streamline workflows, facilitate testing and deployment, and potentially deliver open-source tools that could benefit the broader research community.
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