IBERGRID looking towards the EOSC

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IBERGRID looking towards the EOSC

Isabel Campos and Jorge Gomes highlight the IBERGRID developments

 

The signature on November 8th in 2003 of the Scientific & Technology Cooperation Agreement between Spain and Portugal, marked the start of a strategic scientific cooperation in the Iberian Peninsula, which included distributed computing as one of the key topics.

IBERGRID was born out of the Iberian Common Plan for distributed infrastructures released in 2007. Since then, IBERGRID has been federating infrastructures from Iberian research & academic organisations mainly focused on grid, cloud computing and data processing.

IBERGRID is a key Operations Centre of the EGI Federation. The resources made available by IBERGRID sites have been instrumental in supporting the four largest scientific collaborations based at the Large Hadron Collider (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb).

The IBERGRID infrastructure comprises 12 computing and data centers in Spain and Portugal. A number of replicated services guarantees data integrity and resilience in the operations of the critical services. The infrastructure has provided 984 million processing hours since 2006 to support the HEP experiments and several user communities. This includes 19 million hours on biomedical applications and ~6 million hours on computational chemistry. Strictly on cloud support, more than 216,000 Virtual Machines have been instantiated providing more than 2 million cloud processing hours to Lifewatch ERIC in the last year.

 

IBERGRID in EGI

IBERGRID is a key Operations Centre of the EGI Federation. The resources made available by IBERGRID sites have been instrumental in supporting the four largest scientific collaborations based at the Large Hadron Collider (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb).

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