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

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.

Additional Materials

• EGI Applications on Demand Service, (2017), Gergely Sipos, Giuseppe La Rocca, 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

Additional Materials

• 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.

User Manuals

• AAI usage guide
• AAI guide for IdPs
• AAI guide_for SPs

Additional Materials

• EGI Check-In Service

EGI Jupyter Notebook

Training Materials	Authors or Trainers	Date of Updates	Link to the Event Page
The EGI Jupyter Notebook	Giuseppe La Rocca	2018/07/10	ENVRIplus International Summer School

Online Storage

EGI Online Storage	Authors or Trainers	Date of Updates	Link to the Event Page
Training Material	Vincenzo Spinoso	2018/09/17	https://documents.egi.eu/secure/ProcessDocumentAdd

User Manuals

• https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Online_Storage

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/