Sandro Fiore, João Martins, Daniele Spiga, Paola Nassisi, Giacinto Donvito, Alessandro Costa, J. Marco de Lucas, Marcin Plociennik, Tomasz Zok, Andrea Ceccanti, Isabel Campos, Cristina Duma, L. Alves, Marco Antonio Tangaro, João Murta Pina, M. Viljoen, Michal Urbaniak, Marcus Hardt, Luciano Gaido, Davide Salomoni, Y. Chen, Álvaro López-García, Federico Zambelli, Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin, Louis Antonelli, Lukasz Dutka, Bas Wegh, P. Solagna, Cosimo Palazzo, Luděk Matyska, Eva Sciacca, Mario David, Zeynep Kurkcuoglu, B. Ertl, Davor Davidović, Eva Cetinic, S. Vallero, S. Gallozzi, Valentina Zaccolo, Marica Antonacci, Riccardo Bruno, Fernando Aguilar, P. Fuhrman, S. Bagnasco, Zdeněk Šustr, Germán Moltó, Jorge Gomes, Marco Fargetta, Ignacio Blanquer, Lara Lloret, Alessandra Nuzzo, Pablo Orviz, Roberto Barbera, and European Commission
Journal of grid computing 16(3), 381 - 408 (2018). doi:10.1007/s10723-018-9453-3, This paper describes the achievements of the H2020 project INDIGO-DataCloud. The project has provided e-infrastructures with tools, applications and cloud framework enhancements to manage the demanding requirements of scientific communities, either locally or through enhanced interfaces. The middleware developed allows to federate hybrid resources, to easily write, port and run scientific applications to the cloud. In particular, we have extended existing PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions, allowing public and private e-infrastructures, including those provided by EGI, EUDAT, and Helix Nebula, to integrate their existing services and make them available through AAI services compliant with GEANT interfederation policies, thus guaranteeing transparency and trust in the provisioning of such services. Our middleware facilitates the execution of applications using containers on Cloud and Grid based infrastructures, as well as on HPC clusters. Our developments are freely downloadable as open source components, and are already being integrated into many scientific applications., Published by Springer Nature, Dordrecht