1. EGI Webinar - Introduction -
Gergely Sipos
EGI.eu / MTA SZTAKI
11/27/2018

2. European Grid Infrastructure
32 countries (National Grid Initiatives)
Grid
Federating IT services
Infrastructure
Computers, Data, Applications
Clouds, clusters, grids,…. and beyond!!
Sustainability
Sustainable operation
Project-driven innovation
EGI-Engage, AARC, INDICO, etc.
EGI.eu in Amsterdam
E-Infrastructures are geographically distributed computing resources and data storage facilities linked by high-performance networks. They allow scientists to share information securely, analyse data efficiently and collaborate with colleagues worldwide. They are an essential part of modern scientific research and a driver for economic growth.
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) was established in 2010 building on over a decade of investment by national governments and the European Commission. EGI is a European-wide federation of national computing and data storage resources. Its aim is to support cutting-edge research, innovation and knowledge transfer in Europe. EGI federates resources from various resource centres, mainly from research insitututes and universities. These centres provide computer clusters, storage servers, applications and human support services for secure access and sharing. EGI provides these services to European researchers and their international collaborators.
EGI is coordinated by EGI.eu, a not-for-profit foundation based in Amsterdam and owned by EGI’s participants, the National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs).

3. Enabling domain-specific e-infrastructures
Finding compute and storage centres and services
Federating Your partners’ resources
Building distributed applications – that scale
Controlled software rollout and deployment
Performing compute and/or data intensive simulations
Controlled access to shared assets
Monitoring and usage accounting
…etc…
SLAs
OLAs
Distributed, federated storage and compute facilities
Grid and Cloud compute platforms
Virtual Research Environments
350 resource centres in 40 countries
400,000 logical CPU cores
190 PB disk, 180 PB tape
> 99.6% reliability
> 200 user projects (Virtual Organisations) . . .

4. Scientific Instruments
EGI-Engage: Accelerating the implementation of the Open Science Commons vision
Researchers from all disciplines have easy, integrated and open access to the advanced digital services, scientific instruments, data, knowledge and expertise they need to collaborate to achieve excellence in science, research and innovation.
Scientific Instruments
Data Commons
E-infrastr. Commons
Knowledge Commons
E-infrastructure services and Research Infrastructure services
EGI-Engage
30 months, Start: 1/March/2015
43 partners
8 m Euro EC contribution

5. EGI-Engage Objectives and Webinar goals
Ensure the continued coordination of the EGI Community
Strategy and policy development; Technical user support and Operations
Evolve the EGI Solutions, related business models and access policies
High-throughput computing, Federated Cloud, Operations
Promote the adoption and extend the current EGI services through user co-development
Competence Centres for 8 Research Infrastructures: BBMRI, DARIAH, Disaster Mitigation, ELIXIR, LifeWatch, MoBrain (INSTRUCT), EISCAT_3D, EPOS
Train Competence Centres and the community
Support joint roadmapping
Facilitate direct interactions
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6. EGI Technical Solutions and scoping our Webinars
Individual Researchers
High Throughput Data Analysis (grid)
DATA MANAGEMENT (Grid, cloud) 3rd Webinar
Federated Cloud
Research Communities
CLOUD SERVICES
2nd Webinar
AUTHENTICATION, AUTHORISATION
1st Webinar
Resource Centres
SMEs and industry
Federated operations
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7. Schedule
Authentication Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) by Peter Solagna - April 7, 2pm Agenda page with connection details:
Cloud services by Diego Scardaci - April 8, 2pm Agenda page with connection details:
Data management in EGI: April 9, 2pm
Grid by Vincenzo Spinoso
Cloud by Enol Fernandez
Agenda page with connection details:
Each Webinar is approx minutes presentation + time for discussion
How relevant are the presented solutions to your Competence Centre or community?
How should these solutions evolve in the future? How can you contribute?
Which topic/tool would you like to learn more about? What would be the preferred format?
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