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EGI: advanced computing for research (EGI)
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
Czech Republic
Slovenia
Estonia
Italy
Spain
Bulgaria
France
Romania
Netherlands
Belgium
Portugal
Finland
Turkey
Sweden
Croatia
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)
United Kingdom
Greece
Poland
Switzerland
Slovakia
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2003
Scientific Description
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
HTC, E-Infrastructures, ICT, European Open Science Cloud, Clouds, Computing, Digital, Science, Grid computing, Research infrastructure, High throughput computing, EGI, RI, Digital ERA, Research
Classifications
RI Category
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Repositories
Distributed Computing Facilities
Software Service Facilities
Scientific Domain
Engineering and Energy
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
Chemistry and Material Sciences
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
Information Science and Technology
Humanities and Arts
Social Sciences
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.

Access
Access Type
Virtual
Access Mode
Wide
Collaborations
Networks
GÉANT
Date of last update: 20/05/2019
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