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The Stichting European Grid Initiative Foundation (hereafter referred to as “EGI.eu”) has been created under the Dutch law with the mission to create and maintain a pan-European Grid Infrastructure in collaboration with its Participants i.e. the National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and Associated participants (e.g. European International Research Organisations - EIROs) in order to guarantee the long-term availability of a generic e-infrastructure for all European research communities and their international collaborators.
In its role of coordinating grid activities between European NGIs, EGI.eu will:
- operate a secure integrated production grid infrastructure that seamlessly federates resources from providers around Europe;
- coordinate the support of the research communities using the European infrastructure coordinated by EGI.eu;
- work with software providers within Europe and worldwide to provide high-quality innovative software solutions that deliver the capability required by our user communities;
- ensure the development of EGI.eu through the coordination and participation in collaborative research projects that bring innovation to European Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs).
To support science and innovation, a lasting operational model for e-Infrastructure is needed − both for coordinating the infrastructure and for delivering integrated services that cross national borders.
The objective of EGI.eu (a foundation established under Dutch law) is to create and maintain a panEuropean Grid Infrastructure in collaboration with National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) in order to guarantee the long-term availability of a generic e-infrastructure for all European research communities and their international collaborators.
In its role of coordinating grid activities between European NGIs, EGI.eu will:
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- Operate a secure integrated production grid infrastructure that seamlessly federates resources from providers around Europe
- Coordinate the support of the research communities using the European infrastructure coordinated by EGI.eu
- Work with software providers within Europe and worldwide to provide high-quality innovative software solutions that deliver the capability required by our user communities
- Ensure the development of EGI.eu through the coordination and participation in collaborative research projects that bring innovation to European Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs)
The EGI.eu is supporting ‘grids’ of high-performance computing (HPC) and high-throughput computing (HTC) resources. EGI.eu will also be ideally placed to integrate new Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) such as clouds, supercomputing networks and desktop grids, to benefit the user communities within the European Research Area.
EGI will collect user requirements and provide support for the current and emerging user communities. Support will also be given to the current heavy users of the infrastructure, such as high energy physics, computational chemistry and life sciences, as they move their critical services and tools from a centralised support model to one driven by their own individual communities.
The EGI community is a federation of independent national and community resource providers, whose resources support specific research communities and international collaborators both within Europe and worldwide. EGI.eu, coordinator of EGI, brings together partner institutions established within the community to provide a set of essential human and technical services that enable secure
integrated access to distributed resources on behalf of the community.
The production infrastructure supports Virtual Research Communities − structured international user communities − that are grouped into specific research domains. VRCs are formally represented within EGI at both a technical and strategic level.
European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)
http://www.egi.eu/policy/policies_procedures.html
https://documents.egi.eu/public/RetrieveFile?docid=71&version=5&filename=EGI-SPG-Glossary-V1_0.pdf
