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Resource providers

The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a federation of cooperating resource infrastructure providers, working together provide the leading edge computing services needed by European researchers. Together with the research communities that benefit from the federated infrastructure, resource providers are EGI’s main stakeholders.

The core EGI resource providers fall into one of the following two categories (see also table below and map overview):

• National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and

• European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs)

NGIs and EIROs are responsible for the maintenance, coordination and integration of the resource centres that make up their individual e-infrastructures. They also provide resources and services to their geographical- (e.g. national or regional for NGIs) or domain-specific (e.g. life sciences for EIROs) research communities.

Resource providers are represented in the EGI Operations Management Board (OMB) and advise the group on the technical procedures required to integrate resources seamlessly and reliably across the e-infrastructure.

EGI also integrates computing resources provided by international organisations, through Memoranda of Understanding. Strong relationships exist already with the GISELA project (in Latin America), SAGrid (in South Africa) and the Open Science Grid (in North America). Eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region are partners within the EGI-InSPIRE project.

• More on how to join the infrastructure

European resource infrastructure providers

See also: resource provider map and operations contacts

Other resource providers

• Asia Pacific Region

• Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico - Regional Operation Center Latin America

• Iniciativa de Grid de America Latina - Caribe - IGALC [see MoU]

• South African Grid Initiative (SAGrid) [see MoU]

• Ukrainian National Grid (UNG) [see MoU]