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\subsubsection*{INFN-CNAF Annual Report 2018}

\textit{www.cnaf.infn.it/annual-report}\\
ISSN 2283-5490 (online)

\subsubsection*{Editors}

Lucia Morganti\\
Alessandro Costantini\\
Luca dell'Agnello\\
Federico Fornari\\
Elisabetta Ronchieri

\subsubsection*{Cover Design}

Francesca Cuicchio

\subsubsection*{Address}

INFN CNAF\\
Viale Berti Pichat, 6/2\\
I-40127 Bologna\\
Tel. +39 051 209 5475, Fax +39 051 209 5477\\
\textit{www.cnaf.infn.it}


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\small The first months of 2018 were still affected by the effects of the flooding suffered in November 2017 and it was only in March 2018 
that our data center was able to resume its full activity. 
Despite this, the overall performance of the Tier 1 for the LHC experiments and for the many other astroparticle and nuclear physics experiments was very good, 
and enough to place CNAF's Tier 1 among the most productive ones in the WLCG ecosystem, as the reports of the experiments in this document show. 
Even the activities of both the HPC clusters and the Cloud@CNAF infrastructure resumed regular operations after the systems have been brought back to CNAF 
from the sites that had temporarily hosted them.

The flooding had indeed beneficial repercussions in speeding up the decision to find a new location for our data center. 
The move was already planned in order to face the challenges of High-Luminosity LHC and of the astroparticle experiments that will begin their data acquisition 
in the second half of 2020, but the dramatic event of November 2017 made the fragility and weaknesses of the current installation clear. 

Also, during 2018 three events have matured paving the way for the definition of a development strategy towards both a new site and a new computing model, 
that includes the possibility to exploit the computing power of the HPC systems: the availability of a big area such as Bologna Tecnopolo where to install 
our new data center; the possibility of a joint upgrade together with the Italian supercomputing center CINECA thanks to European and Italian funding; 
the additional funds from the Italian Government for a project aimed at strengthening the INFN computing infrastructures.

Our R\&D activities have proceeded regularly, meeting the expected milestones and deliverables. 
In particular, the path towards a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has seen significant progress thanks to the EOSCHub and EOSCPilot projects, 
in both of which CNAF plays an important role. Contributions to the EOSC have also come from other H2020 projects in which we are involved, 
namely XDC-eXtreme Data Cloud, which focuses mainly on data management services evolved for a context of distributed resources, 
and DEEP-Hybrid DataCloud, which addresses the need to support intensive computing techniques, requiring specialized HPC hardware, 
to explore very large data sets.

The External Projects and Technology Transfer (PETT) Organizational Unit has contributed to various projects in the field of computing,
communication of science, technology transfer and education. Great effort has been dedicated to the consolidation of the Technology Transfer Laboratory (INFN-TTLab), 
a collaboration between CNAF and the INFN divisions of Bologna and Ferrara with the goal of promoting the transfer of our know-how towards regional enterprises. 
2018 has also been the first full year in which the TTLab operated an ISO-27001 ISMS consisting of a subset of the Data Center resources. 
Such certification, which was acquired in order to be qualified for storing and managing sensitive data, 
could open new opportunities of exploitation of our resources in the next future. 

Also noteworthy is the involvement of CNAF in the INFN Cultural Heritage Network (CHNet), 
where our expertise in Cloud technologies and software development is put to good use for the preparation of a digital library 
where members of the network can safely store their datasets and have access to applications for their processing. 

This report about the accomplishments of CNAF during 2018 arrives just at the end of 2019. 
The delay is due to higher-priority commitments that have overlapped with its finalization, 
but we are well aware that such situation affects its usefulness as a means of transparency towards our stakeholders 
and of recognition of the hard work and dedication of the personnel of the Center. 
To prevent similar situations in the future we are adopting some corrections to the editing process 
already for the report about the year 2019, and we are also planning some interesting surprises that we hope will please our readers.

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      \textit{Gaetano Maron}
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\subsection*{Director}

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Gaetano Maron
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\subsection*{Scientific Advisory Panel}

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\textit{Chairperson} & Eleonora Luppi         & \textit{\small Università di Ferrara, Italy} \\
                     & Roberto Saban    & \textit{\small INFN, Italy} \\
                     & Laura Perini      & \textit{\small Università di Milano, Italy} \\
                     & Volker Beckman        & \textit{\small IN2P3, France} \\
                     & Volker Guelzow    & \textit{\small Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany} \\
                     & Alberto Pace      & \textit{\small CERN} \\
                     & Eric Lancon & \textit{\small Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA} \\
                    & Josè Hernandez        & \textit{\small Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Spain} 
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\section*{Data Center -- Tier 1}

\subsection*{L. dell'Agnello}

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    \textbf{Farming}                       & \textbf{Storage}                          & \textbf{Networking}                                    & \textbf{Infrastructure}                  & \textbf{User Support}
    \\[.1cm]\underline{A. Chierici}        & \underline{V. Sapunenko}                  & \underline{S. Zani}                                    & \underline{M. Onofri}                    & \underline{D. Cesini}
    \\S. Dal Pra                           & A. Cavalli                                & L. Chiarelli\footnote{GARR employee relocated at CNAF} & M. Donatelli                             & E. Corni
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\section*{Software Development and Distributed Systems}

\subsection*{D. Salomoni}
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  \\A. Ceccanti                         & E. Ronchieri                         & A. Costantini                    & D. Michelotto
  \\E. Vianello                         & N. Terranova                         & & 
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\section*{External Projects and Technology Transfer}

\subsection*{M. C. Vistoli}

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 \\[.1cm]\underline{B. Martelli} & Francesco Antoniazzi

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\section*{National ICT Services}

\subsection*{S. Longo}
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S. Antonelli &  M. Pezzi\footnote{Until September} & F. Rosso & G. Zizzi\footnote{Until October}

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\section*{Information System}

\subsection*{G. Guizzunti}
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  \\ B. Demin &          C. Galli     &              &

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\section*{Director Office}

\subsection*{E. Amadei}

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  Jan. $26^{th}$ & Marco Manca \\
  & \textbf{BioDynaMo: in-silico biomedical simulations coming of age} \\[.4cm] % leave .4cm of vertical space
  
  Feb. $9^{th}$ & Julien Leduc \\
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  & \textbf{Introduzione alla blockchain} \\[.4cm] % leave .4cm of vertical space  
  
  Jun. $27^{th}$ &  Francieli Zanon Boito \\
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  Nov. $27^{th}$ &   Barbara Martelli, Luca Giommi, Simone Rossi Tisbeni and Tommaso Diotalevi \\
  & \textbf{Exploring machine learning approaches for predictive maintenance and log analysis at CNAF} \\[.4cm] % leave .4cm of vertical space    

  
  
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