Conveners
EGI-EUDAT interoperability
- Matthew Viljoen (EGI.eu)
Description
EUDAT is a collaborative Pan-European infrastructure providing research
data services, training and consultancy for researchers, research
communities, research infrastructures and data centres. EUDAT’s vision is
to enable European researchers and practitioners from any research
discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted
environment, as part of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI)
conceived as a network of collaborating, cooperating centres, combining
the richness of numerous community-specific data repositories with the
permanence and persistence of some of Europe’s largest scientific data
centres.
The EGI-EUDAT collaboration started in March 2016 with the main to
harmonise the two infrastructures, including technical interoperability,
authentication, authorisation and identity management, policy and
operations. The main objective of this work is to provide end-users with a
seamless access to an integrated infrastructure offering both EGI and
EUDAT services and, then, pairing data and high-throughput computing
resources together.
This session reviews the status of this work, with input from communities
who are keen to use the benefits of both EGI and EUDAT infrastructures.
It looks at the barriers we have encountered and what we are doing to
resolve them to make interoperability a reality for users.
