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The EGI Federated Cloud

The EGI Federated Cloud is part of EGI infrastructure, a seamless grid of academic private clouds and virtualised resources, built around open standards and focusing on the requirements of the scientific community. The Federated Cloud is targeted at researchers and research communities that need to access digital resources on a flexible environment.


The EGI Cloud position paper 2014 has been recently published and will be disseminated at Cloudscape VI and CloudExpo 2014.

Status

The EGI Federated Cloud infrastructure is in production since mid May 2014, and it is continuously evolving since then through the Federated Cloud Task Force. The current list of federated cloud resource providers is available here.

What the EGI Federated Cloud can do for you

  • If you are a scientists, a member of a research project or a user service provider, the EGI Federated Cloud can provide you with a flexible environment to run your application and services. For more information, you can browse to the FedCloud Users page.
  • If you are an organization, a project or company which wants to deploy and offer cloud services, then the EGI Federated Cloud can provide you with the open technology stack that's designed and implemented for federated setups. For more information, you can browse to the FedCloud Resource Providers page.

Technology

The EGI Federation model aggregates Cloud resources by defining a set of standard open-source interfaces and protocols to access the different cloud functions - such as resource discovery, user authentication, compute and data access services - in a uniform way at all the sites, enabling workloads to span and seamlessly migrate across resource centers. The federation serves providers and users with a central system for cloud service monitoring, usage accounting, service discovery marketplace, virtual machine image repository, single sign on.

A detailed view of the federation model, standards and interfaces is in the FedCloud Technology page.

Members

The EGI Federated Cloud has three types of members:

  1. User communities. Individuals and institutions that use already or plan to use cloud technologies for their activities. If you want to register yourself or your user community to the EGI FedCloud services, you can follow the instructions in this page
  2. Resource providers. Institutions and companies that contribute to the FedCloud providing access to their cloud infrastructure via the Federation. If you are interested in joining the FedCloud as a resource provider, you can follow the instructions in this page
  3. Technology providers. Institutions and companies that develop cloud technologies and contribute technical know how and development effort for the Federation. If you are interested in helping the FedCloud technology design and development, you can follow the instructions in this page

Related Projects

The EGI Federated Cloud is the outcome of a set of separated projects, who contributed to the design, development and implementation of the different parts of the system. A list of the projects is reported below

Collaborations

The EGI Federated Cloud established collaboration with a set of related European projects:

Roadmap

Detailed Roadmap of the EGI Federated Cloud service is reported here.