EGEE project

The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project aims to develop a service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours per day. By using such infrastructure researchers in academia and industry will be provided with access to major computing resources, independently of their geographic location. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and is funded by the European Commission.

The EGEE grid is built on the EU Research Network GÉANT and exploits grid expertise generated by many EU, national and international grid projects to date. The EGEE project community has been divided into 12 federations, consisting of over 90 contractors covering a wide-range of both scientific and industrial applications.

The project primarily concentrates on three core areas:

• building a consistent, robust and secure grid network that attracts additional computing resources
• continuously improving and maintaining the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users
• attracting new users from industry as well as science and ensure they receive the high standard of training and support they need.