The GÉANT EOSC Node offers specialist high-scale network, security, and trust and identity services to the wider research community, while lowering barriers for NRENs and selected cloud providers to participate in the EOSC Federation.
Hosted on the GÉANT Digital Research Environment, the Node provides a compliant deployment blueprint for EOSC Nodes and strengthens the link between EOSC and EuroHPC through high-bandwidth networking and federated AAI.
To make specialist network, security and trust and identity services available to the broader EOSC community, to provide a gateway to NRENs and selected OCRE cloud providers and to offer through MyAccessID the technical solution for the AAI EOSC Federating Capability.
The GÉANT EOSC Node strengthens the technical foundation of EOSC by enabling secure, high-performance, cross-border access to research services and cloud resources.
FAIR data
GÉANT is primarily a service and infrastructure Node rather than a thematic data provider, and it enables FAIR data use by providing trusted access, networking, security, cloud procurement and interoperability services for data-intensive research workflows.
Scientific use cases
Seamless access between EOSC Federation and EuroHPC resources
The aim of this use case is to showcase the synergies between the EOSC Federation and EuroHPC through the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP).
In this use case GÉANT will collaborate with other Nodes to demonstrate a federated and trusted identity domain providing seamless access between services and resources offered through EOSC Nodes and EuroHPC HPC computing sites. In this use case we plan to run a workflow, moving data from an EOSC Node to an EuroHPC HPC system, process the data on the EuroHPC HPC system generating output, storing this output on a EFSS service and analyse the research output through a Jupyter notebook provisioned through an EOSC Node.
Other scientific use cases
- AAI EOSC Federating Capability
- NREN gateway for services and resources
Status
Candidate EOSC Node
Deliverables
- GÉANT Node hosted on GDRE
- Technical solution for the AAI EOSC Federating Capability
- eduVPN, perfSONAR, Data Transfer Node Testing Facility and Security Training services onboarded
- Gateway for OCRE cloud services
- Gateway for NREN services
- EOSC-EuroHPC federated access demonstrator
Technical status
Planned
- Federated AAI
- Onboarded service catalogues (GÉANT service portfolio; GDRE services; OCRE catalogue)
- 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
Access depends on service. Some services are free software downloads, some are available to NRENs and R&E institutions, and some are chargeable or subject to framework and institutional eligibility.
Access points
Via home page (https://geant.org)
Node capabilities
Federated services
- Core AAI Platform
- GÉANT Digital Research Environment
- OCRE cloud framework
- eduVPN
- perfSONAR
- GÉANT Data Transfer Node Testing Facility
- GÉANT Security Training
Compute and storage
- Cloud resources through OCRE 2024 Framework
- Compute and storage resources provided through NRENs
- High-bandwidth network connectivity to compute and storage services
VRE
GÉANT Digital Research Environment
Other
- Trust and identity services
- Security services
- DDoS detection
- Certificate services
- Security awareness training
Coordinating organisation
Node organisation
Coordinator
Mark van de Sanden (GÉANT)
Operation Managers
Mandeep Saini, Christos Kanellopoulos
Security Officer
Alf Moens
Legal Officer
Monique Pellinkhof
Communications Officer
Rosanna Norman
Contributing organisations
GÉANT Association, GÉANT NREN community, National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), Selected commercial cloud providers via OCRE 2024 Framework.
