Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

Raul PalmaSemantic Technologies Coordinator

Network Services Division18/12/2015, New Delhi, India

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

• Established in 1993 by the State Committee for Scientific Research • Affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS• Leading operator of Polish e-Infrastructure• Large HPC infrastructure • Multiple R&D groups organized in 4 divisions

• Supercomputing, Network Technologies, Network Services, Applications• Digital libraries, semantic tech, research data services, future internet tech, telemedicine, and others

• Over 100 International R&D projects• Over 300 people

Brief Introduction

Mission: Integration and implementation of scientific research results via the deployment of services for public administration, healthcare, education, agri-food and the social sectors in polish e-infrastructure

• 21 Academic Optical Based MAN • Poznan MAN operated by PSNC

• 5 HPC Centers • One in Poznan (PSNC)

• Polish NREN – PIONIER • Fiber infrastructure owned by PSNC

• Science Services Platform – PLATON • HD Videoconference services• Deployment of eduroam services• Applications on Demand for campuses• Archiving on Demand• Science HDTV services

• Digital Libraries Federation• Developed and operated by PSNC

• National Data Storage

Driving force for ICT Innovation Ecosystems

Polish e-Infrastructure

HPC infrastructure at PSNC

Provision of computing power, archive systems, Internet and network services, cloud infrastructure

• Computing power: 350+ TFlops -> towards PFlops

• Over 15.000 cores

• Internal memory (RAM): 27.3 TB

• Disk space: 1.5 PB (fast access, disk arrays, fast SSD cache)

• Mass storage: 3.5 PB

Production QA environment

Towards the development of smart agriculture infrastructure in Wielkopolska region

How to build a smart infrastructure in the region ?

• Identifying and engaging stakeholders• Establishing collaboration and defining goals and

scenarios• Setting up the base infrastructure• Building and/or deploying smart services and

applications• Testing and user trialing• Disseminating activities and results

Experiences and lessons learned

Identifying and engaging stakeholdersCovering the overall ecosystem

R&D• Poznan University of Life Sciences (PULS)• Institute of Plant Genetics PAS (IGR)• Institute of Plant Protection (IOR)• Institute of Meteorology and Water Management

(IMGW)• Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation

(IUNG)• Research Institute of Horticulture Public bodies• Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre (WODR)• Wielkopolska Chamber of Agriculture (WIR)• Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (WODGiK)• Regional Advisory Centres

Business• ALMA SA• NetICTech SA• Wielkopolska ICT Cluster• Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Puławy SA • Grześkowiak

Reaching individual farmer is hard!

Identifying and engaging stakeholdersExamples

Wielkpolska Agricultural Advisory Center (WODR)

Tasks Implementation of innovative solutions Promoting good results in the region training, presentations and demonstrations in farms

Network of demonstration farms ~ 100 Participate in the implementation of innovative

solutions Help to promote good results in the region Different profiles

Animal Production Profiles Plant Production Profiles

Open to students carrying out practices

Establishing collaboration and defining goals and scenariosFinding opportunities and developing project concepts

PSNC established initial collaboration with WODR within FOODIE project FOODIE (2014-2017) aims at building an open and interoperable agricultural specialized cloud-

based platform for The management, discovery and large-scale integration of data relevant for farming production,

leveraging existing and valuable European open datasets The publication and linking of data (following linked data principles) with external agriculture data

sources contributed by different public and private stakeholders The provision of specific and high-value applications and services supporting the planning and decision-

making processes of different stakeholders related to the agricultural and environmental domains.

• FOODIE is developing three main pilots– Pilot 1: Precision Viticulture (Spain –Terras Gauda)– Pilot 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical planning (Czech Republic –MGM)– Pilot 3: Technology based integration of logistics via service providers and farm management

including traceability (Germany - machine cooperatives)• In Poland, PSNC subcontracted WODR to provide requirements from the region

and develop complementary scenarios– Goal:

• to develop an agro-meteorological forecasts DSS• related to the obligation of applying principles of integrated pest management by

professional users of plant protection products

– Scenarios:• Scenario A – Data on crop and weather data.• Scenario B – Modeling diseases and pests.• Scenario C – Presentation of data and calculation results.• Scenario D – Notifications

– Main driver of requirements for applications developed in PSNC

Identifying regional needs

Establishing collaboration and defining goals and scenarios

• PSNC has established collaboration with the University of Life Sciences in Poznan, Faculty of Agriculture and Bioengineering (PULS)

– Ongoing collaboration within SmartAgriFood2 (SAF2) project serving both as proxy with regional farmers

• SAF2 is a phase 3 FI-PPP project supporting SMEs in the development of smart services and applications for the agri-food sector with high end user take-up

– based on FIWARE technologies, including Generic Enablers and FISPACE platform, and other results from previous FI-PPP projects

– through an open call (4M€) for application development jointly coordinated with ICT-AGRI ERA-NET project

– particularly for the arable, livestock and horticulture farming subsectors

– Two phase programme• Phase 1 – 50 SMEs (Prototype development)

– From over 150 applications• Phase 2 (Testbesd+Business Development)

– 15 incubators, 3 high flyers

More examples

Establishing collaboration and defining goals and scenarios

• Wielkopolska Chamber of Agriculture (WIR)– Established communication– Requirements for farmers in the region

• Consultants and former members of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) Poznan branch

– Established communication– Draft scenarios on water management:

• Scenario A – Small water retention in delimited area.• Scenario B – Proper water conditions advise.• Scenario C – Maintenance of reclamation facilities and slow-flowing water streams in

protection of environment• Scenario D – Impact of climate changes in the production over time

• Industry partners in projects conceptualization and proposals preparation

More examples

Establishing collaboration and defining goals and scenarios

Setting up the base infrastructure

• Foundations– Leveraging Polish e-Infrastructure

• Providing high-speed communication links• Providing access to large scale national infrastructure, including

virtualized resources– Exploiting HPC infrastructure at PSNC

• Providing local computing power, network services, archiving systems

• Providing operation of services• Some deployments at PSNC

– Cloud infrastructure provider• FOODIE (and other projects)

– FIWARE-lab node• SAF2 (and others)

– IoT platforms and laboratory– Storage and computing power towards development of polish

Elixir node

Setting up the infrastructureExample: FOODIE cloud infrastructure

• Service model– Developers cloud: IaaS+

• Iaas – Openstack-based– 10 VM

• DbaaS– Postgres-XL– Virtuoso

– End-users cloud: SaaS• Include components developed

in FOODIE along with any base technologies and extension modules• Deployment model

– Private cloud • PSNC HPC

– Community/Mixed in the future

Architecture

Setting up the infrastructureExample: FIWARE-lab node

Architecture PSNC node

• IoT platforms and services development

– KIWI Platform– Hardware resources– Customization of 3rd party

platforms

Setting up the infrastructureExample: IoT platform and laboratory PSNC

KIWI Platform• control and manage scientific equipment or

sensors like cameras, weather, air pollution and water flows sensors and other

• remotely control equipment• store gathered data• standard interfaces• based on OGC© standards• based on 52°North’s: SOS server and OX-

Framework client adapters for SPS and SOS

IoT Laboratory (hardware)• Sensors, microcontrollers, communication systems• Drones – multicopters and multispectral mapping

flying wing (e.g. NDVI maps)• Horticulture sensors• Weather stations

Building, deploying and integrating datasets, services and applications

• FOODIE Marketplace developed by PSNC– virtual space that connects consumers and producers

of agricultural data and applications – for offering/selling resources– for enabling their collaboration– main driver: WODR

• FOODIE geoportal developed by Czech partners– Inspire compliant registry of datasets– Visualization of data layer in maps– Main driver: Czech farmers

• Smart apps developed by SMEs in SAF2 project– Deployed in FIWARE-lab (e.g., SmartSilo, Grocircle)– Supported by PSNC (technical & trailing in the region)

• BII tools deployed at PSNC for– storage of phenotypic data in ISA-TAB format– main driver: IPG – PAS (pilot project)– Vision: creation of polish Elixir node

Examples

Building, deploying and integrating datasets, services and applications

• KiWI apps deployments– Animal road crossing monitoring– Measurement of the greenhouse gases– Phenological observations– Cold room monitoring

• Resources at the region/national level to integrate

– DSS on treatment of late potato blight (WODR)– DSS in protection against rust brown (IOR)– Meteo stations network (WODR/IOR/others)– Regional Knowledge base in agriculture (WODR)– Farmers statistics (Advisory centers)– Epidemic Disease Forecasting System (Plant

Genetics) …

Examples

User trialing and dissemination activities

• Identification of potential trial sites in the region– WODR’s network of demo farms – Farms vary on size (6-3200 ha),

production type, and conditions– Enabling the communication between

farmers and application developers• E.g., SmartAgriFood project funds development of smart farm apps, now working on

trials• Identification of relevant events in the region

– ~15 per year with participation of multiple farmers and other stakeholders– According to WODR the best way to disseminate services/applications is at such events

• Include training– On site

• practical trainings, presentations and demonstrations in collaboration with the advisory centers

– On events• conferences, seminars, workshops, etc.

Initial steps and examples

Gaps and clustering opportunitiesideas for discussion

Perspectives of Agri-food chain

• Conventional perspective of agri-food chains is mostly market oriented and includes all intermediaries who add value to the farm output or the transactions involving the output as it moves along the chain, through transport, processing and/or marketing.

• The emerging perspectives of agri-food chains can be considered in two stages

– first stage that is now emerging focuses on enabling better market participation along with greater sustainability of agriculture. This is the goal for Europe under the common agricultural policy and is being considered all over the world.

– the second stage will evolve into a more complex agri-food chain where in addition to the outputs listed above, quality water, energy and higher quality of life in rural areas and for those in urban areas are also considered as outputs of these agri-food chains

Motivations

New information flow needs

• Open data and technologies• Data and information repositories along with trust centers for managing, sharing

and using it• Institutional, legislative and regulatory mechanisms for data sharing, property

rights and fair use• Increased democratization of science, learning and support to exponential

innovation• Inclusive governance of flow of data, information, knowledge, skills and technology• Inclusive development of standards• Interoperable applications• Enabling capacities in communities to use information effectively• New forms of advisory and support systems for knowledge, skills and technology

using ICTs• New business-models that integrate governments, farmers, banks, insurance co.,

market intermediaries, cooperatives etc. for participation in markets• Public clouds infrastructures along with lower costs of connectivity and hardware

What are we missing (non-exhaustive list)

ICT directions with impact in Agri-Food sector

• Technological – Data analytics for agriculture and farming at plot/field, farm, farm clusters/village/watershed,

national, regional levels– Visualization of information for decision support – Internet of Things enabled farm equipment – New form of labelling including printable, organic/edible/degradable RFIDs – Wearable computing for farmers and livestock – MOOCs for learning in farming and agricultural communities – Ability to link and use unstructured data

• Institutional – Build new forms of information and knowledge services cooperatives – Data and information sharing treaties with regulatory mechanisms and appropriate legislature – Open government (Governance, Health, Education, Infrastructure etc.) – Community participation – Social media – Participatory movements such as for mapping resources and services of a community, Food

quality, reduced wastage, sustainability and safety related epidemiology – Community based content generation

How to fill gaps with participation of multiple actors (non-exhaustive list)

Smart-farming + smart village = Smart rural area + Smart city = Smart country

Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

ul. Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, POLAND,Office: phone center: (+48 61) 858-20-00, fax: (+48 61) 852-59-54,

e-mail: office@man.poznan.pl, http://www.psnc.pl

affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences,