Grid Computing: a new tool for Science and Innovation

The access to massive computing resources and to large distributed data sources is becoming available to many scientific and technological activities. With the uptake of Grid technology and the progressive deployment of large infrastructure project like EGEE (Enabling Grid for E-SciencE) in Europe, NorduGrid in the Nordic countries and OSG in US) many more scientific domains and technology-related activities have access to sizeable computing resources. The Grid offers the environment where diverse scientific and technological activities can exchange ideas and collaborate.