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EGI Publications

EGI Annual Report 2018

An overview of the activities of EGI in 2018, including contribution to projects and a review of the EGI Core Services in 2018, with numbers and metrics. (PDF)

EGI-Engage: Impact & Results

This publication showcases the results of the EGI-Engage project and their impact on science and society. (PDF)

EGI support for Research Infrastructures

A collection of use cases showcasing EGI’s work with research infrastructures. (PDF)

EGI Use Cases

A collection of the best research use cases published in the EGI website. (PDF)

EGI Support for Research

Overview of the support EGI gives to Big Science and researchers (PDF)

EGI Service Catalogue

This brochure provides an overview of EGI’s services and examples of how researchers are using them in their daily work. (PDF)

Keeping EGI Secure

EGI CSIRT: Prevention – Response – Training.

A short report about the inner workings of the EGI security team. (PDF)

EGI Check-in service

Secure and user-friendly federated authentication and authorisation. (PDF)

EGI Marketplace service

Expose your services to a broader audience. (PDF)

EGI Strategy 2015-2020

Explores what EGI has to offer, its vision, mission and strategic goals, and defines EGI’s value proposition in terms of target groups, service offering and strategic partnership. The document concludes with an analysis of the five strategic themes that will lead the evolution of EGI in the next five years. (PDF)

E-infrastructures: Making Europe the best place for research and innovation

This booklet, published by the European Commission’s e-Infrastructures Unit, describes how e-Infrastructures contribute to innovation and research. (PDF)

Leaflets and posters

EGI Brochure

EGI delivers advanced computing services to support scientists, multinational projects and research infrastructures. (PDF)

EGI: Open for Business

EGI is committed to sharing the benefits of e-Infrastructure technology and services with industry and facilitating and supporting both new business users and developers, especially SMEs. (PDF)

EGI Use Cases poster

EGI Services support data- and compute-intensive research across Europe and the world. See a few examples of EGI use cases. (PDF)

Technical papers

The Open Science Commons for the European Research Area

How an EOSC built on e-Infrastructures can improve the discovery, retrieval and processing capabilities of Earth Observation data, offering virtualised access to geographically distributed data and the computing necessary to manipulate and manage large volumes. (Full text – Open access)

The EGI Open Data Platform and DataHub

The EGI Open Data Platform and the EGI DataHub, their functionality and how they meet the requirements of EGI end users. (PDF)

The EGI Applications on Demand Service

The EGI Applications on Demand service, designed for individual researchers, small research teams and early phase research infrastructures. (PDF)

The EGI Federated Cloud e-Infrastructure

The EGI Federated Cloud, a standards-based open cloud system that offers a scalable and flexible e-infrastructure to the European research community. (PDF)

ooi: OpenStack OCCI interface

A implementation of the Open Grid Forum’s Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) for OpenStack. (PDF)

EGI Applications on Demand service: Future Generation Computer Systems Journal

A paper describing the EGI Applications on Demand published in the journal Future Generation Computer Systems (PDF).