Cloud federations
The Mesocentre of Lille is also part of various academic cloud federations.
![[Translate to English:] Logo France Grilles](/fileadmin/_processed_/a/f/csm_FranceGrilles_11fd268af0.png)
The Lille Mesocentre cloud joined the FG-Cloud supported by the GIS France Grilles in 2015.
Since its creation, the France Grilles federation has contributed to numerous scientific publications in various fields.
France Grilles also represents France internationally through the European federation EGI.
The Lille mesocentre participates in the federation by hosting monthly cloud meetings and providing computing and storage resources for the France Grilles cloud offer.
![[Translate to English:] Logo EGI](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/f/csm_EGI_e3b1c47beb.gif)
In 2019, we were the second French site after the IPHC to join the EGI FedCloud federation supported by the European Grid Infrastructure Foundation!
On the strength of its experience in the field of scientific computing, this federation, initially created with the aim of distributing the processing of data from the Large Hadron Collider (CERN), then opened its doors to other research fields.
The Lille mesocentre participates in this international effort by providing computing resources for EGI's cloud offer.
Some time after joining the EGI federation, the cloud joined the Biosphere federation at the initiative of the bilille platform.
This cloud federation supported by the French Institute of Bioinformatics is specialized in scientific bioinformatics applications.