ServiceGuides
This wiki page provides user documents and service information that help end users to better understand EGI (and its third-party's) services.
EGI Services
Cloud Computing
The Federated Cloud is a standards-based, open cloud system that federates institutional clouds to offer a scalable computing platform for data and/or compute driven applications and services in research and science.
Training Materials
- Research Computational Infrastructure: Cloud infrastructures, [ppt]. This training was given by Giuseppe La Rocca & Gergely Sipos, 16-17 Aug 2018, during CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer Schoo 2018l. It provides up-to-dated information about EGI cloud computing and EGI services (AppDB, Jupyter Notebook), including demo and exercise. It also gives an overview about EOSC and EOSC-hub project.
- Research Computational Infrastructures: Cloud computing & the EGI Cloud [ppt]. This training was given by Giuseppe La Rocca & Gergely Sipos, 10-21 Jul 2017, during CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 2017. It covers topics including EGI Cloud, contextualisation and data management. Exercises are included.
- Using the EGI Fed-Cloud for Data Analysis, [pdf]. This training was given by Giuseppe La Rocca, 03-07 Jul 2017, during the EUDAT Summer School, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It gives an overview on EGI services with focuses on Cloud Computing, covering topics such as block storage and object storage. It also includes topics how to link EUDAT services with EGI FedCloud.
- Introduction and command line usage of the EGI Federated Cloud [ppt]. This training material is provided by Gergely Sipos, 05 Oct 2016. The goals of the training are to help users to learn the concept of IaaS Cloud Computing, conceptual model of the EGI federated Cloud, to obtain skills in using the standard interface of the EGI federated cloud and become an active user. Hand-on exercises are included.
- The EGI Federated Cloud for application developers (API access), [ppt]. This training is jointly given by Giuseppe La Rocca, Enol Fernandez del Castillo, and Boris Parak, 28 Sep 2016, during DI4R 2016. The topics covers EGI and EGI Federated Cloud, Access the training infrastructure. It also includes hand-on exercises.
User Manuals
- https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_user_support provides detailed information about the service and guideline of access the service
Publications
- The EGI Federated Cloud e-Infrastructure (2015), Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, Diego Scardaci, Álvaro López García, in the proceeding HOLACONF-Cloud Forward: From Distributed to Complete Computing, 6-8 October 2015, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.235
- The user support programme and the training infrastructure of the EGI Federated Cloud (2015), Fernandez, E., Scardaci, D., Sipos, G., Chen, Y., Wallom, D, in the proceeding of High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS) 2015, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. doi: 10.1109/HPCSim.2015.7237016
Cloud Container Compute
The Cloud Container Compute offers guaranteed computational resources in a secure and isolated environment with standard API access, without the overhead of managing the operating system.
Training Materials
- Training Material. [ppt]. This training is given by Enol Fernandez, 17 Jul 2018, during EOSC-hub tech-talk: Cloud, containers, orchestration. It introduces the service architecture and interfaces, options and attributes.
User Manuals
- https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Federated_Cloud_Containers: provides information about the docker image and configurations details.
Application on Demand
Application on Demand service allows user-friendly access to a portfolio of applications and application hosting frameworks (Science Gateways, VREs) that are configured to use the dedicated pool of cloud computing and HTC clusters from EGI. The service also allows users to run their own simulation/analysis models with custom input data.
Training Materials
- Overview of the EGI Applications on Demand (AoD) service. [ppt]. This training is provided by Gergely Sipos and Giuseppe La Rocca, 13 Jul 2017, during Webinar: EGI Applications On Demand Service. It gives an overview of the service components, information details on how to access, available services provided via the framework. An introductory webinar (video recording) can be found at: http://connect.ct.infn.it/p8w34jegx9s/
User Manuals
- https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/AoD is the wiki page of the service providing information details on how to access the service.
Publication
- EGI Applications on Demand Service[pdf]. (2017), Gergely Sipos, Giuseppe La Rocca. In the proceeding of IWSG'17 conference
DataHub
The EGI DataHub is a service prototype designed to make data discoverable and available in an easy way across all EGI federated resources.
Training Materials
- The EGI Open Data Platform and DataHub[ppt]. This training is given by Diego Scardaci during DI4R 2016. It introduces what is the EGI DataHub, together with 4 hand-on exercise.
- The EGI Open Data Platform [ppt]. This training is given by Lukasz Dutka (CYFRONET) and Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu), 17 May 2016, during the webinar The EGI Open Data Platform - Towards Scientific Data Hubs. The topics cover OneData, EGI DataHub and EGI Open Data Platform (ODP). A video recording of this webinar can be found at http://connect.ct.infn.it/p68qfn1h2km/
User Manuals
- User Guide provides information for end users
- Admin Guide provides information for administrators
Publication
- Towards European Open Science Commons: The EGI Open Data Platform and The EGI DataHub, (2016), Matthew Viljoena, Lukasz Dutka, Bartosz Kryza, Yin Chen, Cloud Forward 2018, Madrid, Oct. 2016.
Check-In
EGI Check-In is a proxy service that operates as a central hub to connect federated Identity Providers (IdPs) with EGI service providers. Check-in allows users to select their preferred IdP so that they can access and use EGI services in a uniform and easy way.
Training Materials
- Community AAI with Check-In [ppt]. This training is given by Nicolas Liampotis, 15 Jun 2018, during EOSC-hub tech-talk: AAI webinar. This training introduces Check-in in a nutshell, users and groups management, and service options.
User Manuals
- AAI usage guide: A wiki page contains information about registering an account with the EGI AAI in order to access a variety of EGI tools and services using the same account.
- AAI guide for IdPs: A wiki page contains information about integrating your identity provider with the EGI AAI Proxy in order to allow users in your community to access EGI tools and services.
- AAI guide_for SPs: A wiki page contains information about connecting services to the EGI AAI Check-in service in order to allow user login through Check-in and to receive users' attributes.
Additional Materials
- EGI Check-In Service: provide general information about the service.
EGI Jupyter Notebook
EGI Jupyter Notebook is an 'as a Service' environment based on the Jupyter technology, offering a browser-based, scalable tool for interactive data analysis. The EGI Notebooks environment provides users with notebooks where they can combine text, mathematics, computations and rich media output. EGI Notebooks is a multi-user service and can scale to multiple servers based on the EGI cloud service.
Training Materials
- The EGI Jupyter Notebook This training is delivered by Giuseppe La Rocca, 10 Jul 2018, during ENVRIplus International Summer School
Online Storage
Online Storage allows you to store data in a reliable and high-quality environment and share it across distributed teams. Your data can be accessed through different standard protocols and can be replicated across different providers to increase fault-tolerance. Online Storage gives you complete control over the data you share and with whom
Training Material
- EGI Online Storage [ppt]. This information is provided by Vincenzo Spinoso, 17 Sep 2018. It gives an overview of the service, service components, access interfaces, and examples of usage.
User Manuals
- https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Online_Storage : A wiki page provides detailed information about the service.
3rd party services (not part of the EGI Service Catalogue)
Training Materials | Service Name | Authors or Trainers | Date of preparation | Event where it was presented |
AppDB VMOps Dashboard: A graphical portal to manage applications and services on federated cloud infrastructures | EGI VMOps dashboard | William Vassilis Karageorgos (GRNET) | 2017/11/24 | https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/3522/ |
Workflow applications on EGI with WS-PGRADE | WS-PGRADE | Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) | 2016/05/26 | https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2977/ |
DIRAC system for EGI communities | DIRAC | Andrei Tsaregorodtsev (CNRS) | 2016/06/07 | https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2978/ |
Hadoop on the EGI Federated Cloud | Hadoop | Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster, London, UK), Carlos Blanco (University of Cantabria) | 2016/03/17 | https://indico.egi.eu/indico/event/2931/ |