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Coordinator: Peter Solagna/Egi.eu

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Overview

Motivation

The goal of this activity is to evaluate possible technologies to implement a set of services to make easier for the users of the long tail of platform to access EGI resources. The services should be used both by the EGI central user support to support centrally new users who are approaching EGI, and by the NGIs who would reuse these services to serve their local users with their resources.

Mandate

The work group will be active in the last months of EGI-InSPIRE, the target of this activity is to start the design of the services that will be deployed in production during EGI-Engage.

Objectives

The capabilities that the long tail of science platform have to support are:

• Zero-barrier access: any user who carries out relevant research can get a start-up resource allocation
• 100% coverage: anyone with internet access can become a user
• User-centric: User support for platform users is available through the NGIs
• Realistic: Reuse existing technology building blocks as much as possible, require minimal new development
• Secure: Provide acceptable level of tracking of users and user activities (Not necessarily f2f vetting)
• Scalable: Can scale up to support large number resource providers, technology providers, use cases and users
• Valuable: Result tangible outcomes

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