TOWARDS A QRS EUROPEAN OPEN SCIENCE CLOUD COMMUNITY?

Abstract

As editors of the on-line Open Journal System (OJS) Magazine VIRT&L-COMM developed within the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) project, we (AL and CM) are happy to host some extended papers originating from contributions presented at the last Quantum Reactive Scattering (QRS) workshop organized by G. Lendvay in Balatonföldvár, Hungary on September 2022 [1]. As suggested by the title, the aim of the present paper is to stimulate a discussion on the possible evolution of the QRS group into an EGI Virtual Research Community (VRC) and its possible integration into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) environment [2]. This would imply the enhancement of the production of shared flexible workflows for the proper collaborative handling of related jobs, as well as the simplification of the extraction of the most significant outputs for use in the cloud while progressively hiding the resources needed to run them. The ultimate goal of the paper is, therefore, to stimulate the singling out of the mechanisms enhancing the sustainability of the potential QRS VRC by exalting relevant collaborative computational processes.