D5.3 Landscape of RIs: technologies, services, gaps

This document presents the results of a comprehensive study on the technical characteristics of 20 existing or planned European e-Infrastructures that serve European research communities and data-intensive use cases with significant computing requirements.

It defines an analysis template covering the different technical aspects of such infrastructures, briefly describes the rationale for selecting the specific e-Infrastructures studied (which are either deployed and operational or planned to become so within the next 1.5 years), characterises these infrastructures, and documents the complete analysis results in an Annex. Based on the study of 14 use cases in Spectrum Deliverable D5.1 (Representative use cases: analysis and alignment) and material collected via the Spectrum Community of Practice, the studied technical characteristics are compared to research community requirements, and recommendations
formulated for the future evolution and improvement of European e-Infrastructures to meet the scientific user needs.

The deliverable will serve as one of the inputs to the second phase of SPECTRUM (months 16-30) and eventually for the SRIDA and Technical Blueprint, to be delivered at the end of the project.