The Services for the Federation offer a federation and management platform that enables service providers to harmonise interfaces and connect to a common hub.

• CERN – Security Coordination and Tools
• CESGA – Accounting repository and Portal
• CESNET – EGI AAI, Helpdesk Human Support, Security Coordination and Tools
• CSIC – EGI Software Validation
• EGI Foundation – Collaboration Tools
• GRNET – EGI AAI, Messaging Service, Security Coordination and Tools, Service Monitoring

• IFCA – Accounting Portal
• IJS – Security Coordination and Tools
• KIT – Helpdesk Service
• LIP – EGI Software Validation
• MARGI – Helpdesk Human Support
• Nikhef – Security Coordination and Tools
• SRCE – Service Monitoring
• STFC-UKRI – Accounting repository, Configuration database. Software Distribution, Security Coordination and Tools

The EGI Federated Cloud is an IaaS-type cloud consisting of academic, private clouds and virtualised resources built around open standards. The requirements of the scientific community drive its development.

The result is a new type of research e-infrastructure, based on the mature federated operations services that make EGI a reliable resource for science.

When using EGI Federated Cloud resources, researchers and research communities can count on:

• Total control over deployed applications
• Elastic resource consumption based on real need
• Immediately processed workloads – no more waiting time
• An extended e-Infrastructure across resource providers in Europe
• Service performance scaled with elastic resource consumption

The EGI Federated High-Throughput Computing (HTC) provides access to large, shared computing systems for running computational jobs at scale. These allow researchers to analyse large datasets in an ‘embarrassingly parallel’ fashion, i.e., by splitting the data into small pieces, and executing thousands, or even more independent computing tasks simultaneously, each processing one piece of data.

HTC means the execution and management of many independent tasks over longer times.