Our services are provided by EGI’s federated cloud providers and data centres. They can be requested by everyone involved in academic research.
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With this call for use cases, EGI offers its services and related user support and training to individual researchers, national and international research projects, research communities, research infrastructures and commercial research entities. These services are sponsored by various national funding agencies and are free to access for the use cases selected through the call.
Compute
EGI compute infrastructure provides fast and flexible compute capacity to fit any research need, from Cloud compute to Cloud Container compute, and High-Throughput compute. Our Software Distribution enables users to publish and access software across multiple sites.
Did you know?
Since 2009, we have delivered more than through the EGI High-Throughput Compute platform and over 3 Million Virtual Machines serve the Cloud Computing needs.
Compute orchestration
Compute Orchestration is designed to give you complete control over your computing resources across the EGI distributed infrastructure. Our services maximise the efficiency of your computing operations, streamline your workload management, and boost your productivity.
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Our Workload Manager ensures the computing tasks are managed and distributed efficiently while maximising the use of resources. During the last 12 months 12.5 Million jobs were running in total with peaks of more than 12,400 concurrent jobs.
Use cloud orchestrator to deploy and configure complex virtual infrastructures
Storage and Data
Do you need reliable services for storing and transferring your data across international research teams? With three specialised services to choose from, we have everything that users and service providers might need to store, share, and transfer their valuable data in a reliable and efficient way.
Did you know?
Over 580 PB online storage capacity is offered by HTC and Cloud storage providers.
Security & Identity
EGI Check-in enables single sign-in through different Identity Providers across multiple services. It acts as a central hub that connect federated Identity Providers to many service providers.
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EGI Check-in serves as a seamless bridge, enabling more than 17,500 registered users to access 150+ services effortlessly, using their own institutional identity providers and community AAI services.
Applications
With EGI Applications, you can gain access to online applications, application-hosting frameworks, and a browser-based tool for compute-intensive data analysis. Our innovative services offer a range of features and benefits that will transform the way you work with data.
Did you know?
Every month, more than 200 registered users from 32 countries make use of our Notebooks in over 100 sessions.
Training
At EGI, we believe in empowering scientific communities through professional development and the acquisition of knowledge. We offer a wide range of training and consultancy services to help you make the most of our cutting-edge EGI services.
Did you know?
In 2022, EGI captivated over 500 attendees with a series of eight engaging webinars and nine comprehensive training sessions. Our training programme enabled over 1000 individuals to attain FitSM certifications.
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Access policies
We strive to lower the entry barrier to access high-end services and professional support to all researchers.
Thanks to the capability of integrating national and European investments, we can optimise the use of financial resources across borders and among disciplines. In most cases, we offer services free at the point of use. When it is not possible, we revert to paid access. For special needs, we can also channel community funding to our providers.
Our ultimate goal is to lower the financial barrier to using the services for end users while ensuring that involved professionals and deployed computing infrastructures are compensated.
Sponsored Access
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EC funding
- WHAT: Virtual access to EGI services, support or co- development
- ACCESS POLICY: Free at the point of use
- REQUIREMENT: Relevance to scope of the project
- SUSTAINABILITY: Post-project support possible |subject to negotiation
- HOW: Use cases submission to open calls, projectpartnership
In-kind support on the national level
- WHAT: Access to EGI services, support or co- development
- ACCESS POLICY: Free at the point of use thanks to national funding
- REQUIREMENT: Alignment to national roadmaps and priorities
- SUSTAINABILITY: Depending on the national or institutional priorities
- HOW: Memorandum of Understanding with the EGI Foundation facilitating the matchmaking
Paid Access
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Direct charge
- WHAT: Access to EGI services, support or co- development
- ACCESS POLICY: As defined in the contract
- REQUIREMENT: Mutual interest
- SUSTAINABILITY: As defined in the contract
- HOW: Direct contract
Long Term Partnership
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EGI Federation Membership
- WHAT: Access to EGI services for research & services for federation
ACCESS POLICY: Services for federation as defined
in the open Service Level Agreements | Services for research are subject to negotiation - REQUIREMENT: Organisations with established legal entity
- SUSTAINABILITY: Long-term support and collaboration
- HOW: By joining the EGI Federation as Participant or Associated Participant
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