Publicly available documents

Technical and Administrative Documentation, Policies

• Selected Cloud Services for the Initial Helmholtz Cloud Service Portfolio.
• Helmholtz Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI):
  • Helmholtz AAI Policies.
  • List of Helmholtz centres that are technically connected to the Helmholtz AAI.
• All HIFIS Documentation for architectural components and processes.
• The original platform proposal for HIFIS can be found here.

Abstracts, Presentations, News

2021

• Helmholtz AAI. Teaser talk, In: 74. DFN Betriebstagung, March 2021.
• HIFIS transfer service: FTS for Helmholtz. In: ISGC 2021 - International Symposium on Grids & Clouds, March 2021.
• HIFIS: Sync&Share Federation for Helmholtz. In: CS3 2021 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing, January 2021.

2020

• Digitale Dienste für die Wissenschaft - wohin geht die Reise?, December 2020
  • German version: 10.5281/zenodo.4301924
  • English version: 10.5281/zenodo.4301947
• HIFIS Software Survey 2020 Evaluation, Blog Post Series, Nov 2020-Jan 2021.
  • A Community Perspective
  • Consulting Perspective
  • Programming, CI and VCS
  • A Technology Perspective
• Federated data storage for Helmholtz Research & Friends. In: National and International Trends in Research Storage at Scale, Open Storage Network, November 2020.
• HIFIS presentations at EGI conference (2-5 November 2020):
  • Helmholtz Federated IT and Accessible Compute Resources for Applied AI Research.
  • HIFIS transfer service: FTS for everyone.
• Presentations of all major HIFIS working groups at the 2nd All-Hands HIFIS Meeting, October 2020.
• HIFIS backbone transfer service: FTS for everyone. In: HEPiX Autumn 2020 Online workshop, October 2020.
• Docker For Science, Blog post series, September 2020:
  • Part 1: Getting Started with Docker
  • Part 2: A Dockerfile Walkthrough
  • Part 3: Using Docker in Practical Situations
• HIFIS - Platform, Training and Support for a Sustainable Software Development. In: DLR Wissensaustausch-Workshop Software Engineering (WAW SE VII), September 2020.
• Zusammenarbeiten mit der Helmholtz-Cloud, Lichtblick Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, page 4, September 2020.
• HZI-led Coronavirus Sero-Survey in collaboration with HIFIS, August 2020.
  • German Version
• Promoting IT based science at all levels. In: EGI Newsletter #37, June 2020.
• HIFIS suggestions and guidelines, Blog post series, May-June 2020.
  • Collaborative Notetaking
  • Video Conferencing
  • Chatting
• Summary of the Feedback Report of the Scientific Advisory Board, May 2020.
• S/MIME Signing Git Commits, Blog post, April 2020.
• The HIFIS Cloud Competence Cluster. In: CS3 2020 Workshop on Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing, January 2020.

2019

• Presentations at the 1st HIFIS Conference, October 2019.
• Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS) – Creating Services together at Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering (SC 2019 BOF)
• HDF Cloud – Helmholtz Data Federation Cloud Resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
• Integrierte Entwicklungs- und Publikationsumgebung für Forschungssoftware und Daten am Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
• Anforderungen, Wünsche und Erfahrungen für den Aufbau des HIFIS Competence Clusters “Software Services” in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
• Continuous Documentation for Users, Developers and Maintainers
• Share and synchronize your data with HZB Cloud Nubes safely

Software Publications

HIFIS creates its own software packages, but also contributes to Open Source software in general.

Software Packages

2020

• Ansible GitLab Role - Ansible role to install and configure the GitLab Omnibus package, also in a high availability context.
• Ansible Keepalived Role - Ansible role that sets up Keepalived for high availabilty.
• Ansible Redis Role - Ansible role for setting up a highly available Redis cluster.
• Ansible HAProxy role - Ansible role to set up HAProxy to be used as a load balancer.
• Ansible SSH keys role - Ansible role to distribute authorized SSH public keys to users.
• GitLab-Runner for Power - GitLab-Runner packages for the ppc64le architecture.

Contributions

2020

• Python Poetry - Respect REUSE spec when including licenses
• Ansible (community.crypto) - openssl_pkcs12 parse action: always changed in check mode
• Ansible Collection Hardening
  • Use package state ‘present’ since ‘installed’ is deprecated
  • Add variable to specify SSH host RSA key size

Repositories for Documentation

The following documentation projects are publicly accessible for reading. You can contribute to them after signing in via Helmholtz AAI.

• Gitlab Project for this homepage
• Gitlab Project for HIFIS Documentation

Restricted Documents

The access to the following documents is currently restricted to HIFIS members. Most of the documentation is planned to be made publicly available by Q4, 2020.

Technical and Administative Documentation

• Draft of HIFIS Infrastructure Policies Draft: Sources
• Draft of Helmholtz Cloud Contracts

Other presentations

• 9th Incubator Workshop, Nov 2020
• HIFIS presentation at KoDa Meeting, October 2020
• 8th Incubator Workshop, June 2020 - PDF version
• Scientific Advisory Board, April 2020

Reports

• Annual report for the year 2019
• Feedback Report of the Scientific Advisory Board, May 2020

Internal Organization

• HIFIS Stakeholder List