EGI Pilot Node in EOSC Beyond
Our Offer
EGI Check-in is a Federated Identity Management Solution for Research and e-Infrastructures.
The EGI Infrastructure Manager (IM) revolutionises infrastructure deployment. Create complex and tailored virtual infrastructures across multiple clouds.
DataHub enables simple and scalable access to distributed data for computation, and the publication of datasets to specific communities or across federated sites.
Cloud Compute allows you to run virtual machines on-demand with complete control over computing resources
The EGI Helpdesk is a distributed tool with central coordination, which provides the information and support needed to troubleshoot product and service problems.
Service Monitoring keeps an eye on the performance of your IT services and quickly detects and resolves any issues.
About the EGI Pilot Node
Coordinated by EGI Foundation, this federated node provides computational, storage, and authentication services to the EOSC Federation.
It integrates AAI (EGI Check-in), Infrastructure Manager for resource orchestration, and federated storage solutions, showcasing how mature EGI services can operate within the EOSC ecosystem.
The EGI Pilot Node demonstrates the tangible value of federation within EOSC Beyond by enabling researchers and Research Infrastructures to easily access and combine computational, storage, and authentication services across nodes.
By integrating mature EGI technologies such as Check-in, Infrastructure Manager, and DataHub, the Node showcases how interoperability and automation can transform fragmented workflows into coherent, scalable research environments.
Its participation in cross-node testing validates the exchange of services and data between federated nodes, strengthening the EOSC ecosystem as a whole. For the scientific community, this means faster deployment of research environments, easier data sharing, and more reproducible results.
The EGI Pilot Node thus acts as both a proof-of-concept and a catalyst, lowering barriers to participation and providing a blueprint for future federated service providers within EOSC.
User Stories
Environmental Science Researcher
- Persona: Researcher from an environmental science community using EOSC services.
- Before: Access to computational and storage resources was fragmented, often limited to
non-federated local infrastructures. Integrating
datasets and compute required manual effort, slowing collaboration. - After: Through the EGI Pilot Node, researchers can
deploy customised virtual environments via the Infrastructure Manager, access resources through EGI Check-in, and use federated storage for secure data sharing. Workflows now deploy in minutes, enhancing cross-community collaboration and reproducibility
Virtualised Storage and Data Publication
- Persona: Research Infrastructure facility and data-intensive researcher.
- Before: Limited online storage and complex data publication workflows hindered post-processing and sharing of experimental results.
- After: With the EGI Pilot Node, users can request virtualised storage via DataHub, log in through EOSC AAI (EGI Check-in), and interact via OneData or
Instruct FandanGO/ARIA. Automated provisioning through the EGI Helpdesk enables efficient analysis and publication with DOIs and metadata in the Research Products Catalogue, ensuring FAIR and reproducible outcomes.
About EOSC Beyond
EOSC Beyond’s overall objective is to advance Open Science and innovation in research in the context of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by providing new EOSC Core capabilities allowing scientific applications to find, compose and access multiple Open Science resources and offer them as integrated capabilities to researchers.
