WARA Ops
WARA Ops gives WASP researchers and partners access to operational datasets, tools, and infrastructure for data-driven research. The arena supports collaboration between Swedish industry and academia on challenges such as anomaly detection, autonomous management, and large-scale system monitoring.
Objective
WARA Ops provides infrastructure for storing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing large operational datasets. It also offers a collaborative environment where users can share data, discuss challenges, and explore research questions within the WASP community.
Research Focus Areas
WARA-Ops is interested in all challenges related to data-driven operations, with a current emphasis on:
- Anomaly detection: We assemble datasets for research challenges such as intrusion detection and denial-of-service attacks. The datasets include system and software log files, access-request lists, and related operational data.
- Autonomous management: We provide datasets for research on autonomous management systems that can predict demand and detect changes in user, network, or hardware behavior. Examples include CPU, disk, network, and memory usage over time, combined with power consumption data.
Expected research outputs include self-learning anomaly detection mechanisms, root cause analysis strategies, and system theory for controlling large-scale systems.
Research Potential
Research in WARA Ops can be applied in areas such as online services, communication systems, automation, energy management, financial systems, online retail, data centers, software build systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
Resources and partners
Managed by Ericsson Research, the arena provides access to a live 5G network, a full-scale cloud service, and the monitoring data these systems generate. WARA Ops works with its partner network to source new datasets and broaden the resources available to researchers and partners.
Current industry partners include Ericsson, SAAB, Tieto and the European Spallation Source (ESS). Other companies contributing datasets include Schneider Electric and Advenica. Academic partners include the WASP partner universities as well as Digital Futures.
WARA Ops complements Berzelius by providing a CPU-based environment for interactive data exploration, processing, and visualization.
WARA Ops Portal
The WARA Ops Portal is a secure and scalable platform where WASP members can access datasets, share data, and run workloads for research and development. It offers:
- a large collection of datasets contributed by project partners,
- a fully hosted online development environment for CPU- or GPU-based workloads,
- access to a variety of large language models (LLMs).
The WARA Ops Portal is free for WASP members. Visit the portal to sign up for an account.
As of October 2025, the portal has more than 120 active WASP users and supports more than 40 MSc and PhD projects.