A collection of research use cases published in the EGI website.

1. Use Case Collection
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EGI delivers advanced computing services to support scientists,
multinational projects and research infrastructures
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2. Research Infrastructures
and
Large Research Collaborations

3. In 2016, the Worldwide LHC
Computing Grid (WLCG)
transferred on average 80
Petabytes of data per month.
This corresponds to more than
1 billion files per month
transferred to thousands of
particle physicists working
across the world.
ATLAS control room at CERN
WLCG provides computing and storage to the High Energy Physics
experiments operating at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
WLCG: Online Storage and Data Transfer at
unprecedented scales

4. 1350 scientists from 32 countries
CTA EGI usage (2013-2016):
• 360 million HS06 CPU hours
• 11 PB of data transferred
• 2 PB currently in storage
• 11 million compute jobs
Credit: Akihiro Ikeshita Mero-TSK
CTA uses EGI’s High-Throughput Compute and Online Storage
services to manage its computational challenges during the
array preparatory phase.
http://go.egi.eu/cta
Cherenkov Telescope Array:
the world’s leading gamma-ray observatory

5. 240 scientists from 14 countries
H.E.S.S. EGI usage (per year):
• 38 million HS06 CPU hours
• 2,000 compute jobs running at
any given timeCredit: Julien Bolmont / Collaboration HESS /
CNRS Photothèque
H.E.S.S. uses EGI’s High-Throughput Compute service to run
massive Monte Carlo simulations from the data collected in
their observatory in Namibia.
http://go.egi.eu/hess
H.E.S.S. Experiment:
a window to the high energy universe

6. Applications, tools and
platforms for science
(Thematic Services)

7. For modelling the structure of
proteins and other molecules
Scientists input their data and
specifications; HADDOCK
returns best fit simulations.
So far, HADDOCK processed
over 130,000 submissions from
more than 7,500 scientists.
HADDOCK portal – Structural Biology
HADDOCK relies on EGI’s High-Throughput Compute service
https://www.egi.eu/use-cases/scientific-applications-tools/haddock/

8. For medical simulation and
image data analysis
VIP allows life scientists to use
complex computational tools
with no added IT overhead.
VIP portal – Medical Imaging
VIP relies on EGI’s High-Throughput Compute service and the
DIRAC instance provided by France Grilles
http://go.egi.eu/vip

9. http://chipster.csc.fi/
Chipster - Bioinformatics
Research story:
http://go.egi.eu/BIBD
For genomic analysis
A user-friendly analysis
software for high-throughput
data with over 350 analysis
tools and a large collection of
reference genomes
Users can save and share
automatic analysis workflows,
and visualize data interactively

10. Individual scientists and
research groups
(the so-called Long-Tail of Science)

11. When human cell meets
Salmonella
K. Förstner (Univ. Würzburg)
used Cloud Compute to run
READemption - a pipeline for the
analysis of sequencing data.
Cloud Compute helped the team
to handle demand peaks and
that sped up the whole process
significantly.
Published in Nature
(doi:10.1038/nature16547)
Understanding the genetics of Salmonella
infections
http://go.egi.eu/salm

12. Chipster helps virologists to
understand millions of genomes
J. Hepojoki (Univ. Helsinki) used
Chipster to analyse the viruses
found in six snakes suffering
from Boid Inclusion Body
Disease.
They found that all samples had
more than one arenavirus, some
of them from entirely new
species.
Published in Journal of Virology
(doi:10.1128/JVI.01112-15)
New viruses implicated in fatal snake
disease
http://go.egi.eu/BIBD

13. How bacteria steal iron from plant
proteins
https://www.egi.eu/use-cases/research-stories/iron-piracy/
HADDOCK shows how iron
pirates operate
R. Grinter (Monash Univ.) used
the HADDOCK portal to
understand the structure of
FusA, a receptor in bacterial cells
designed to grab and steal iron
from plant proteins
http://haddock.science.uu.nl/
Published in Nature
Communications
(doi:10.1038/ncomms13308)

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