Services

EIDF provides computing, data management, IoT and safe haven services for the DDI programme, and offers bespoke customisation and service co-creation for DDI partners, researchers and innovators.

Where services are still under development we label them "[in development]". Where services are in use by a small number of early adopters we label them "[early adopter]". Services without a particular label are generally available. 

EIDF Service Outage: Wednesday 27th August - Thursday 18th September

Most EIDF Services will be unavailable from 12:00 on Thursday 28 August to 18:00 on Monday 15 September. The Cerebras service will be unavailable from 17:00 on Wednesday 27 August and some services will be returning to service gradually by 18:00 on Thursday 18 September. 

Further details and up to date information is available at:  https://docs.eidf.ac.uk/status/

Service catalogue

EIDF's service catalogue will grow and change over the coming years. We want EIDF to be dynamic and challenge-led, with services co-designed with partners to solve real problems. We aim to be as agile and responsive as we can be to the needs of our many stakeholders across the DDI programme. For details on access please see Access and Charges.

Compute services

EIDF is optimised for data science and artificial intelligence. We offer a range of compute services from scalable notebooks, through data science desktops to specialist compute platforms, including a large-scale AI engine—the Cerebras.

Data management

EIDF provides data management services for the ingress, storage, discovery and re-use of data. Through managed file transfers users can donate data sets, which is stored on EIDF. Researchers and innovators can discover these data sets via the EIDF Catalogue. Through the EIDF S3 service these data sets can be access either on the EIDF or on other systems for re-use.

Safe Haven Services

EPCC manages a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) through which independent organisations can provide Safe Haven Services. The EPCC TRE operates under the guidance of the Five Safes framework. It offers a secure data sharing and analysis environment that allows researchers access to sensitive, including special category data, under the terms and conditions prescribed by the data providers.

Bespoke services

We work with partners from across the DDI programme to co-create and tailor services to meet their needs. Using a building block approach from the "EIDF toolkit", our engineers can work with you to solve your particular problems, whether it be data hosting, AI modelling, high-performance analytics - or something entirely new!

 

Overall service status (GitHub external link)

 

Technical documentation

Some services have additional technical documentation available, principally for developers or "power users". We host these documents at GitHub to allow a broader community to join in and contribute.

EIDF user documentation at GitHub.

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