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EGI Strategic and Innovation Fund – Call for proposals

By : admin Posted On : May 2, 2018May 3, 2018No Comment

Today, EGI launched the EGI Strategic and Innovation Fund. The Fund was established by the EGI Council with the goal to stimulate targeted actions that bring benefits within the EGI Community in the short to medium term. Project proposals should align with the vision, mission and strategy of the EGI Federation and create changes in…

One step further into Cloud Computing

By : admin Posted On : April 30, 2018May 2, 2018No Comment

Since 2017, BEgrid had been offering an IaaS cloud service through the EGI Federated Cloud (or FedCloud). So far, this cloud service was only usable through command-lines under Linux. Recently, with the help of the EGI and AppDB Teams (special thanks to Marios Chatziangelou from IASA in Athens), our virtual organization beapps has been integrated…

EOSC-hub: integrated services for the European Open Science

By : admin Posted On : February 5, 2018May 2, 2018No Comment

EOSC-hub: integrated services for the European Open Science Cloud The EC-funded project EOSC-hub project started on January 1st 2018, bringing together an extensive group of national and international service providers to create the Hub: a central contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for…

New procedure to request grid and HPC certificates

By : admin Posted On : January 8, 2016May 2, 2018No Comment

Since 2003 Belnet has been the Certification Authority for the granting of grid/HPC certificates for Belgian researchers. This has been done via a private Belnet CA service. Due to the aging of both hard- and software of the service, Belnet in consultation with concerned parties has decided to move this service to Digicert where it…