EGI: advanced computing for research (EGI)
http://www.egi.eu/
Core Data
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Self-standing RI
Legal Status
Other
Location
Science Park 140, EGI Foundation, Amsterdam, PO: 1098 XG (Netherlands)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
Netherlands
Participating Countries
Romania
Italy
Slovenia
Netherlands
France
Czech Republic
Greece
Poland
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Portugal
Croatia
Estonia
Belgium
Bulgaria
United Kingdom
Finland
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 2003
Scientific Description
Mission and objectives
EGI is a federated e-Infrastructure set up to provide advanced computing services for research and innovation.The EGI e-infrastructure is publicly-funded and comprises hundreds of data centres and cloud providers spread across Europe and worldwide.EGI offers a wide range of services for compute, storage, data and support. EGI provides access to over 850,000 logical CPUs and 650 PB of disk and tape storage.
RI Keywords
Digital, Research, Grid computing, European Open Science Cloud, Research infrastructure, HTC, Computing, Science, ICT, E-Infrastructures, RI, High throughput computing, Clouds, EGI, Digital ERA
Classifications
RI Category
Software Service Facilities
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Distributed Computing Facilities
Repositories
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Distributed Computing Facilities
Repositories
Scientific Domain
Information Science and Technology
Chemistry and Material Sciences
Humanities and Arts
Engineering and Energy
Social Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
Chemistry and Material Sciences
Humanities and Arts
Engineering and Energy
Social Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
Services
Advanced computing services
High Throughput Computing, Grid computing, Cloud computing (IaaS), Specialised User support, Applications database, Science gateways. For more information: http://www.egi.eu/services/.
Equipment
EGI resources
EGI comprises 320,000 logical CPUs and offers 152 PB of disk space; more than 1.7 million compute jobs are processed every day in EGI.
Additional Data
Access
Access Type
Virtual
Access Mode
Wide
Access Webpage
https://www.egi.eu/services/
Collaborations
Networks
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