Description
EGEE (Enabling Grids for EsciencE) operates the world’s largest multi-science production Grid infrastructure. As the flagship project of the European Commission, EGEE unites regional and national Grid infrastructures into a seamless whole, able to support scientists in their research 24/7. The users of the EGEE Grid are organised into Virtual Organizations, allowing them to share resources, codes, data and common tools specific to their fields of study. Coordinated by CERN and integrating the majority of resources from institutes contributing to the LHC experiments, EGEE forms the cornerstone of the LHC Computing Grid. Beyond physics, more than 200 Virtual Organizations make use of EGEE, in a wide range of fields including Life Sciences, Computational Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Astronomy, Gaming and Finance. The EGEE infrastructure includes approximately 300 sites in 50 countries spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas. The infrastructure handles more than 300,000 application executions per day. EGEE actively purses interoperability with collaborating projects in the USA (Open Science Grid and TeraGrid), Japan (NAREGI) as well as India and China.
At the start of its third phase, EGEE is looking toward the future of Grid computing and how this technology can be transferred to a wide range of science and business sectors.
Speaker
Bob Jones
(CERN - EGEE Project Director)
