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    Publications on HIFIS.

Publications, 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]({% link guidelines/index.md %}), Blog post series, May-June 2020.
  • Collaborative Notetaking
  • Video Conferencing
  • Chatting
• [Summary of the Feedback Report of the Scientific Advisory Board]({% post_url 2020/05/2020-05-27-sab-summary %}), 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