The ADLS – Austrian DataLAB and Services project was set up to promote and facilitate collaborative work between universities, especially in the fields of data science and high performance computing (HPC). It aims to provide easy access to a nationwide network of applications in a federal opt-in model. In particular, the focus lies on increasing user-friendliness and saving time for researchers, teachers and students in the course of using computing resources.

To this end, users should be able to discover via self-service:

• run their own, possibly computationally intensive applications
• access existing applications
• without having to set up or configure the required environment, respectively.

The project is concerned with the extension and integration of digital services (applications that enable the processing and analysis of different types of data) and the provision of templates for future digital services and platforms – building on existing infrastructure. Access to these services will be provided through graphical user interfaces and interactive platforms. In the background, these applications access federated resources for processing and storing data.
The aim of the project is to make these services available to a broad group of users, which is why different application areas and use cases have been defined, which will be reflected in the implementation.