The federation is governed by its participants represented in the EGI Council and coordinated by the EGI Foundation.
EGI Council
The EGI Council is responsible for defining the strategic direction of the EGI federation. The Council acts as the senior decision-making and supervisory authority of the EGI Foundation, with a mandate to define the strategic direction of the entire EGI ecosystem.
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EGI Participants
21
Represented Countries
300+
Total Represented Organisations
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Our Impact
The EGI Federation’s impact is broad and diverse. We support all kinds of data-intensive research. Examples include finding new tools to diagnose and monitor diseases such as Alzheimer’s, developing complex simulations to model climate change, searching for gravitational waves, and pursuing dark matter.
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EGI supported over 29.000 publications throughout the last 12 years.
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Our continuously developed services and collaboration with the industry boost data-driven innovations.
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During the past 12 years, we have either coordinated or contributed to 55 international projects.
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We provide training opportunities and professional advice, differentiating us from commercial providers.
History
Key milestones in the EGI Federation history
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2002
First large scale experimental facility for distributed computing is successfully demonstrated by the partners of the DataGrid project
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2004
The first data processing tasks are formally recorded in a central accounting system
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2010
The EGI Foundation is created and the new EGI flagship project EGI-Inspire is launched
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2013
The scientific accomplishments of LHC are formally acknowledged with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs. LHC conceptualised distributed computing as a new approach to data-intensive science and successfully proved its viability at worldwide scale.
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2014
The first example of large scale cloud federation – the EGI Federated Cloud – is launched
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2015
EGI, EUDAT, GEANT, LIBER and OpenAIRE publish the position paper on a ‘European Open Science Cloud for Research’
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2017
LIGO/VIRGO scientists behind the detection of gravitational waves were awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. The collaboration relied on some of the largest European research data centres that are part of the EGI Federation
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2019
The EGI infrastructures break the record of +1 Million core and +1 Exabytes of research data federated worldwide
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Today
EGI is proud to support over 84,000 users and to celebrate 20 years of operations
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