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How To Join As A Resource Provider

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As of August 2016, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) connects more than X resource centres to X users across Europe and beyond. EGI is always looking to expand the number of providers and invites unaffiliated resource centres to join in. If you are the representative of a resource centre or a cluster interested in joining the infrastructure, we invite you to go through the following steps:

  • CASE 1: your country is already part of EGI
    • Please contact the resource provider in your country and they will assist you in the process (see the general requirements at the bottom of the page).
  • CASE 2: your country is not on the list of EGI resource providers https://www.egi.eu/federation/data-centres/
    • If you are a representative from a resource centre / site / cluster, being part of EGI is still possible. Please send an e-mail to the EGI.eu Operations team (operations AT egi.eu) which can help you to become part of the infrastructure, and will assist you through the different steps, from resource centre registration to certification (see the requirements at the bottom of the page)
    • If you are a representative from a National Grid Initiative or other Resource Infrastructure Provider, please send an e-mail to the EGI.eu Operations team (operations AT egi.eu) which will assist you during the integration process. Please note that new resource infrastructure providers must first be accredited by the EGI Council. To do so non-European resource infrastructure providers can start a formal collaboration with EGI.eu through a Memorandum of Understanding.

Either your country is already part of EGI or not, the integration process

General requirements

For being part of the EGI infrastructure, a resource centre will have to comply with a series of operational and security requirements by signing an Operational Level Agreement (OLA), a document that defines the minimum set of operational services and the respective quality parameters that a Resource Centre is required to provide in EGI, and accepting the the Grid Security Policy, the Grid Resource Centre Operations Policy, the Resource Centre Registration Security Policy and in general all the EGI security policies.

The resource centres belonging to the EGI infrastructure have to properly configure the provided services with the EGI AAI: this means that the IGTF trust anchors CA distribution to enable the X509 authentication have to be updated in a timely manner. Usually a new CA release is available every month.

The services provided by a resource centre have to run interfaces that allow their monitoring, in order to constantly check their functioning and periodically produce reports on the quality of service offered; at the same time the measurement of resources usage have to be allowed, through the properly tools provided by EGI.

All the EGI campaigns aim at implementing service provisioning best practices and common requirments. Mitigate security vulnerabilities and update unsupported operating systems and softwares are part of the activities of a resource centre (also for the non-federated ones): EGI and the Operations Centres coordinate these activities in order to have them implemented in a timely manner.