Operated by the EGI Foundation on behalf of the EGI Federation, the EOSC Node EGI provides scalable compute, storage, data management and advanced digital research services for data-intensive science.
It delivers EOSC Core and Federating Capabilities including AAI, catalogue, monitoring, accounting, helpdesk and application deployment management, while supporting multi-node use cases in reproducible workflows, AI, sensitive data analysis, machine learning and federated LLM services.
To act as a Node for data-intensive computing and large-scale research data exploitation, providing compute, storage, workflow and federating capabilities for EOSC.
The EOSC Node EGI enables large-scale interdisciplinary data exploitation by combining compute, storage, workflows, data services, AI/ML models and EOSC federating capabilities across a distributed European infrastructure.
FAIR data
- Scientific datasets accessible through EGI DataHub and integrated NGI/RI resources.
- Domain data services such as EODC Data Catalog, HAL, Recherche Data Gouv, FAIDare API, WeNMR, DATAlife, yProvStore and PITHIA e-Science.
- FAIR-enabling services for data access, transfer, storage, provenance and reuse.
Scientific use cases
Cross-Node Federated LLMs integration with Neurodesk
This use case brings AI assistance into Neurodesk, a community-driven platform used for reproducible neuroimaging and biomedical imaging research.
The aim is to make AI tools available directly within the environment researchers already use, helping them with coding, analysis and more complex research tasks without requiring them to set up separate services. This makes the experience simpler for users while supporting a wider range of AI models and increasing the capacity available to the Neurodesk community.
The work brings together Neurodesk, EOSC Node EGI, EOSC Node Czechia and HUN-REN SZTAKI in Hungary. The EGI EOSC Node provides the federation layer that connects participating organisations, while EOSC Node Czechia and HUN-REN SZTAKI contribute computing capacity for running AI models. Neurodesk integrates these capabilities into its Europe Play environment, giving researchers straightforward access to AI support alongside their scientific workflows. The result is a shared, distributed approach that combines expertise and infrastructure from several organisations while keeping the user experience within Neurodesk.
Other use cases
- Reproducible workflows
- AI validation on sensitive health data
- Cross-node machine learning pipelines
- Large-scale cross-node data processing
Status
Candidate EOSC Node
Deliverables
- Project charter
- Integration with Federating Capabilities: AAI and Catalogue
- Application Deployment Management API – Software Release
- Report: Use cases – Lessons learnt and next steps
- Integration with Federating Capabilities: Helpdesk, Monitoring, SMS
- Stakeholders and communities’ engagement strategy
- EOSC Mesh Cross-Node use case analysis and implementation plan
Technical status
Planned
- Federated AAI
- Onboarded service catalogues (EGI catalogue; NGI and RI service resources)
- Application workflow management
- Service monitoring
- Service and research product accounting
- Order management
- Helpdesk
- Management system
Interactions with other EOSC Nodes
How to access the Node
Rules of Participation
Services are offered to European researchers under EGI Access Policy or service-specific access policies, including open, quota-based, project-based or cost access depending on service.
Access points
Via home page (https://www.egi.eu/egi-node/)
Node capabilities
Federated services
- EGI Check-in
- EGI Service Catalogue
- Monitoring
- Accounting
- Helpdesk
- Order Management
- Application Deployment Management
Data repositories
- EGI DataHub
- NGI-AT EODC Data Catalog
- NGI-FR HAL
- Recherche Data Gouv
- FAIDare API
- WeNMR portal
- DATAlife
- PITHIA e-Science
Compute and storage
- EGI Cloud Compute
- EGI Cloud Container
- EGI HTC
- EGI Online Storage
- EGI Data Transfer
VRE
- EGI Notebooks
- EGI Replay
- Galaxy and community VREs through NGI/RI services
File sync-and-share
- EGI Online Storage
- EGI Data Transfer
Other
- EGI Software Distribution
- EGI Workload Manager
- EGI Infrastructure Manager
- Secrets Store
- AI/ML platforms
Coordinating organisation
Node organisation
Coordinator
Dr. Diego Scardaci (EGI Foundation)
Internal organisational structure
- Operated by EGI Foundation on behalf of EGI Federation
- Federated research data centres across Europe and beyond
- NGI and RI service providers
- Federator / hub role for EOSC core capabilities
Contributing organisations
EGI Foundation, EGI Federation, National Grid Initiatives (NGIs), Research infrastructures and scientific communities integrated with EGI
