Presentation on how the NGIs (EGI's national nodes) fit in the EOSC-hub project

1. eosc-hub.eu
@EOSC_eu
EOSC-hub receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 777536.
Gergely Sipos
Customer and Technical Outreach Manager
EGI Foundation
Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud
EOSC-hub and the NGIs

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Who we are
- EOSC-hub
- EGI, NGIs, NGI International Liaisons
What we do
How we can help NOADs
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Outline

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European Commission Horizon2020 programme
100 Partners, 76 beneficiaries, 33m EUR
More than 200 technical and scientific staff
36 months: Jan 2018 – Dec 2020
Project figures and mission
EOSC-hub mobilises providers from 20 major
digital infrastructures, EGI*, EUDAT CDI** and
INDIGO-DataCloud jointly offering services,
software and data for advanced data-driven
research and innovation.
* EGI is not an acronym (any more)
** CDI – Collaborative Data Infrastructure

4. EGI: Federation of national
e-infrastructures
• Established in 2010
– EGI Foundation: Coordinator (Amsterdam, Science Park)
– NGIs: National e-infrastructures (22 country + CERN)
• Membership fees sustain the federation; Projects innovate (e.g. EOSC-hub)
• EGI = a subset of the EOSC-hub service providers
Institutional
representatives

5. NGIs and NGI International Liaisons
NGI
Operation of
services
(cloud, grid,
storage, …)
User
consultancy
Training
Events
(workshop,
conference…)
Integrate
scientific
applications
Software
developmen
t
NGIs are different, but perform
similar activities
• Connected to EGI by:
• Council representative
• NGI International Liaison
• NGI Operation Manager
• NGI International Liaison:
• Connects the ‘human
services’
(training, consultancy,
events, …)
List of NGIs:
https://www.egi.eu/about/egi-council/
List of International Liaisons (with emails):
http://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/NGI_International_Liaison

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NGIs contribute to the EOSC hub
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EOSC Hub: a federated integration and
management system for EOSC
• Data
• Applications & tools
• Baseline services
(storage, compute,
connectivity)…
• Training, consultants
• Marketplace
• Authentication, authz.
• Accounting
• Monitoring
• …
• Security regulations,
• Compliance to
standards,
• Terms of use,
• FAIR implementation
guidelines
• …
• Lightweight certification
of providers
• SLA negotiation
• Customer Relationship
Management
• …
Services
Federation
services
Federated
operations
Processes
and
policies

7. How NGIs can help NOADs
• With ‘big data’ and ‘big compute’ topics. Such as…
–Where and how to analyse scientific data?
–How to transfer big files? Where to store big files?
–Reusable disciplinary environments/applications/data?
–How to setup a new Virtual Research Environment?
–Cloud computing; containers, grids, supercomputers?
–Additional tools, services for RDM?
• Harmonised/joint outreach
–Workshops, communication channels
• Collaborative support for scientific communities
–National services; Training
• ‘Gateway’ to international services (EOSC, EGI)

8. eosc-hub.eu @EOSC_eu
Thank you for
your attention!
Contact:
Gergely.sipos@egi.eu
www.eosc-hub.eu
www.egi.eu
Questions?