SORS: SLICES An european scale research infrastructure on digital infrastructure

Abstract

The digital infrastructures research community continues to face numerous new challenges towards the design of the Next Generation Internet. This is an extremely complex ecosystem encompassing communication, networking, data management and data intelligence issues, supported by established and emerging technologies such as IoT, 5G/6G, cloud-to-edge computing. Coupled with the enormous amount of data generated and exchanged over the network, this calls for incremental as well as radically new infrastructure design paradigms. Experimentally driven research is more and more required worldwide to address these challenges, which has to be supported by large-scale research infrastructures to make results trusted, repeatable and accessible to the research communities. SLICES-RI (Research Infrastructure), which has been included in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap, aims to answer these problems by building a large infrastructure needed for the experimental research on various aspects of distributed computing, networking, IoT and 5G/6G networks. It will provide the necessary resources to continuously design, experiment, operate and automate the full lifecycle management of digital infrastructures, data, applications, and services. Duringthis talk, you will discover SLICESRI, the services it proposes and how you can use or contribute to it.