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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a></li><li><a href="Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">Cloud computing</a></li><li><a href="E-infrastructure" class="mw-redirect" title="E-infrastructure">e-infrastructure</a></li><li><a href="Federation_(information_technology)" title="Federation (information technology)">service federation</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">2010</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">Science Park 140 1098 XG, <div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">The Netherlands</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Europe</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Tiziana Ferrari (<a href="Director_(business)" title="Director (business)">Director</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data">6,130,989 (2023) <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://EGI.eu">egi<wbr>.eu</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>EGI</b> (originally an initialism for <b>European Grid Infrastructure</b>) is a federation of <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a> and <a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">storage</a> resource providers that deliver advanced computing and data analytics services for research and innovation. The Federation<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is governed by its participants represented in the EGI Council and coordinated by the EGI Foundation.
</p><p>As of 2024, the EGI Federation supports 160 scientific communities worldwide and over 95,000 users in their intensive data analysis. The most significant scientific communities supported by EGI in 2022 were Medical and Health Sciences, <a href="Particle_physics" title="Particle physics">High Energy Physics</a>, and <a href="Engineering" title="Engineering">Engineering</a> and <a href="Technology" title="Technology">Technology</a>. The EGI Federation provideds services through over 150 data centres, of which 25 are cloud sites, in 43 countries and 64 <a href="European_Research_Infrastructure_Consortium" title="European Research Infrastructure Consortium">Research Infrastructures</a> (4 of which are members of the Federation).
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<p>Originally, EGI stood for European Grid Infrastructure. This reflected its focus on providing access to <a href="High-throughput_computing" title="High-throughput computing">high-throughput computing</a> resources across Europe using <a href="Grid_computing" title="Grid computing">Grid computing</a> techniques. However, as EGI's service offerings expanded beyond traditional grid computing, particularly with the incorporation of federated cloud services, the original meaning of the acronym became less accurate.
</p><p>To emphasise the broader scope of EGI's services and avoid any confusion associated with the outdated term "grid," it is recommended to refer to EGI simply as EGI.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structure">Structure</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EGI_Federation">EGI Federation</h3></div>
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<p>The EGI Federation delivers a scalable digital research infrastructure <a href="E-Infrastructure_Reflection_Group" title="E-Infrastructure Reflection Group">(e-infrastructure)</a>, empowering tens of thousands of researchers across diverse scientific disciplines. Through the EGI Federation, researchers gain access to advanced computing and data analytics capabilities, including large-scale data analysis, while benefiting from the collaborative efforts of hundreds of service providers from both public and private sectors, consolidating resources from Europe and beyond. Overall, the EGI Federation offers a range of services, encompassing distributed <a href="High-throughput_computing" title="High-throughput computing">high-throughput computing</a> and <a href="Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">cloud computing</a>, <a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">storage</a> and <a href="Data_management" title="Data management">data management</a> capabilities, co-development of new solutions, expert support, and comprehensive training opportunities. This ecosystem propels collaboration, scientific progress and innovation.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EGI_Foundation">EGI Foundation</h3></div>
<p>The EGI Foundation is the coordinating body of the EGI Federation. It was established in 2010 with headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Foundation coordinates the research and innovation efforts of its members, spanning technical areas critical to <a href="Data-intensive_computing" title="Data-intensive computing">data-intensive science</a>, including large-scale <a href="Data_processing" title="Data processing">data processing</a> and <a href="Data_analysis" title="Data analysis">analysis</a>, distributed <a href="Artificial_Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial Intelligence">Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning</a>, federated <a href="Identity_and_access_management" title="Identity and access management">Identity and access management</a> and the application of <a href="Digital_twin" title="Digital twin">digital twins</a> for research. The day-to-day running of the EGI Foundation is supervised by the Executive Board. The board’s members work closely with the EGI Director on operational, technical and financial issues. The Executive Board’s members are appointed by the EGI Council for a two-year term.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EGI_Council">EGI Council</h3></div>
<p>The EGI Council is responsible for defining the strategic direction of the EGI Federation. The Council acts as the senior decision-making and supervisory authority of the EGI Foundation, with a mandate to define the strategic direction of the entire EGI ecosystem.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="EGI_Services">EGI Services</h3></div>
<p>EGI offers a suite of services<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to support <a href="Data-intensive_computing" title="Data-intensive computing">data-intensive research</a>. These services include <a href="System_resource" title="System resource">compute resources</a>, <a href="Orchestration_(computing)" title="Orchestration (computing)">orchestration</a> tools, storage and data management solutions, training programmes, security and identity services, and applications. Compute resources encompass <a href="Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">cloud compute</a>, <a href="Kubernetes" title="Kubernetes">cloud container compute</a>, <a href="High-throughput_computing" title="High-throughput computing">high-throughput compute</a>, and <a href="Software_distribution" title="Software distribution">software distribution</a>. Orchestration tools include the <a href="Workload_Manager" title="Workload Manager">Workload Manager</a> and infrastructure manager. Storage and data management solutions include <a href="File-hosting_service" title="File-hosting service">online storage</a>, data transfer, and DataHub. Training programmes cover <a href="FitSM" title="FitSM">FitSM</a>, <a href="ISO/IEC_27001" title="ISO/IEC 27001">ISO 27001</a>, and general training infrastructure. EGI Check-in and Secrets Store are key security and identity services, while applications such as <a href="Jupyter_Notebook" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupyter Notebook">Notebooks</a> and Replay enhance research productivity.
In addition to services for Research, EGI also provides services for Federation and Business. Services for Federation are designed to help resource providers and user communities collaborate and share resources. EGI also offers a range of services to support businesses in their digital transformation. Through the <b>EGI Digital Innovation Hub (EGI DIH)</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> companies can access advanced computing resources, networking, funding and training opportunities, collaborate with research institutions, and test solutions before investing.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>In 2002, the first large-scale experimental facility was successfully demonstrated by the DataGrid project<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> under the lead of <a href="CERN" title="CERN">CERN</a> with tens of technical architects from the major <a href="Particle_physics" title="Particle physics">High Energy Physics</a> institutes in the world. For the first time, distributed computing was applied to data-intensive processing. It aimed at developing a large-scale computational grid to facilitate distributed data-intensive scientific computing across <a href="Particle_physics" title="Particle physics">High Energy Physics</a>, <a href="Earth_Observation" class="mw-redirect" title="Earth Observation">Earth Observation</a>, and <a href="Biology" title="Biology">Biology</a> science applications.
</p><p>On 28 February 2003, the first software release of <a href="Worldwide_LHC_Computing_Grid" title="Worldwide LHC Computing Grid">LCG-MW</a> was published. <a href="GLite" title="GLite">gLite</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Lightweight Middleware for Grid Computing and LCG, Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, are the cornerstone of the <a href="Worldwide_LHC_Computing_Grid" title="Worldwide LHC Computing Grid">Worldwide LHC Computing Grid</a>, which expanded over time towards the EGI Federation.
</p><p>2004 marks the year of the first pilot infrastructure, seeing the participation of <a href="CERN" title="CERN">CERN</a> and data centres in the <a href="United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, <a href="Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, <a href="Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, the <a href="Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, <a href="France" title="France">France</a>, <a href="Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, <a href="Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, the <a href="Asia-Pacific" title="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</a> region and <a href="Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. Over the years, the infrastructure has grown into a federation of 128 data centres and 25 cloud providers serving more than 95,000 users worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
In 2004, the first data processing tasks started being formally recorded in a central accounting system. The EGI Accounting Portal<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> provides the accounting data for Compute, Storage and Data services gathered from the data centres of the EGI Federation.
</p><p>A few years later, in 2010, EGI<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was established as the coordinating body of the EGI Federation to build an integrated pan-European infrastructure to support European research communities primarily. In the same year, EGI launched the flagship project EGI Inspire.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That project brought together European organisations to establish a sustainable European Grid Infrastructure for large-scale data analysis. The success of the project was due to the adoption of a distributed computing model to solve big data problems.
Moreover, EGI-Inspire harmonised operational policies across its federation of affiliated <a href="Data_centers" class="mw-redirect" title="Data centers">data centres</a> and cloud service providers worldwide, integrating e-infrastructures from 57 countries.
The EGI Federation was the first to apply federation to cloud provisioning,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> opening a new avenue in large-scale interactive data analysis.
In 2015, within EGI Engage,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> opening a new avenue in large-scale interactive data analysis. The EGI Federated Cloud is an <a href="Infrastructure_as_a_service" title="Infrastructure as a service">IaaS</a>-type cloud, incorporating academic and private clouds and virtualised resources built using open standards. Its development is driven by the needs of the scientific community, resulting in a novel research e-infrastructure that relies on well-established federated operational services, making EGI a dependable resource for scientific endeavours.
In 2015, EGI, EUDAT, <a href="G%C3%89ANT" title="GÉANT">GÉANT</a>, LIBER and OpenAIRE published a position paper<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on a '<a href="European_Open_Science_Cloud" title="European Open Science Cloud">European Open Science Cloud</a> for Research'.
With the EOSC-hub project<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 2016, EGI started contributing in practice to shaping the services for the <a href="European_Open_Science_Cloud" title="European Open Science Cloud">EOSC</a>. The work continued with a series of projects, like EOSC Enhance,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> EOSC Life<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and EOSC Synergy.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With EGI-ACE<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its contribution to EOSC Future,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> EGI has continued developing the EOSC Core. In early 2024, EGI started providing services to the EOSC EU Node,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and with EOSC Beyond<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it will provide new EOSC Core capabilities and pilot additional national and thematic nodes.
In October 2024, EUDAT, <a href="G%C3%89ANT" title="GÉANT">GÉANT</a>, OpenAIRE, PRACE and EGI signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing the European e-Infrastructures Assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This collaboration will bolster the position and promote the services of e-Infrastructures, empowering researchers across Europe to drive innovation and advance scientific discovery.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="European_Open_Science_Cloud" title="European Open Science Cloud">European Open Science Cloud</a></li>
<li><a href="E-Infrastructure_Reflection_Group" title="E-Infrastructure Reflection Group">E-Infrastructure Reflection Group</a></li>
<li><a href="Supercomputing_in_Europe" title="Supercomputing in Europe">Supercomputing in Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="EScience" class="mw-redirect" title="EScience">eScience</a></li>
<li><a href="GridPP" title="GridPP">GridPP (UK NGI)</a></li></ul>
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