Objective
EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe) aims to integrate current national, regional and thematic computing and data Grids to create a European Grid-empowered infrastructure for the support of the European Research Area, exploiting unique expertise generated by previous EU projects (DataGrid, Crossgrid, DataTAG, etc) and national Grid initiatives (UK e-Science, INFN Grid, Nordugrid, US Trillium, etc).
The EGEE consortium involves 70 leading institutions in 27 countries, federated in regional Grids, with a combined capacity of over 20000 CPUs, the largest international Grid infrastructure ever assembled.
The EGEE vision is to provide distributed European research communities with a common market of computing, offering round-the-clock access to major computing resources, independent of geographic location, building on the EU Research Network Geant and NRNs. EGEE will support common Grid computing needs, integrate the computing infrastructures of these communities and agree on common access policies. The resulting infrastructure will surpass the capabilities of localised clusters and individual supercomputing centres, providing a unique tool for collaborative computer and data intensive e-Science. EGEE will work to provide interoperability with other major Grid initiatives such as the US NSF Cyber infrastructure, establishing a worldwide Grid infrastructure.
EGEE is a two-year project in a four-year programme. Major implementation milestones after two years will provide the basis for assessing subsequent objectives and funding needs. Two pilot applications areas have been selected to guide the implementation and certify the performance of EGEE: the Particle Physics LHC Grid (LCG), where the computing model is based exclusively on a Grid infrastructure to store and analyse petabytes of data from experiments at CERN;
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Switzerland
Participants (69)
123182 Moscow
30-950 Krakow
1111 Budapest
1113 Sofia
75008 Paris 08
75794 Paris Cedex 16
160 00 Prague
75752 Paris Cedex 15
91300 Massy
Madrid
00155 Roma
Chilton, Didcot
92140 Clamart
00143 Roma
OX1 2PZ Oxford
22607 Hamburg
Hamburg
00196 Roma
28020 Madrid
1053 Budapest
76133 Karlsruhe
80686 Muenchen
15705 Santiago De Compostela
64291 Darmstadt
11527 Athens
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
142280 Protvino
142290 Pushino
28850 Torrejon De Ardoz
71316 Bucharest
61-704 Poznan
00044 Frascati Roma
4040 Linz
141980 Dubna, Moscow Region
1001 Ljubljana
125047 Moscow
1017 Koebenhavn K
10044 Stockholm
1000-149 Lisboa
6020 Innsbruck
1111 Budapest
1121 Budapest
1132 Budapest
SN2 1SZ Swindon
188300 Gatchina
117218 Moscow
119992 Moscow
1098 SJ Amsterdam
3527 JP Utrecht
69978 Tel Aviv
WI 53706 Illinois
Dublin
60637 Chicago Illinois
Edinburgh
Amsterdam
46022 Valencia
87036 Arcavacata Di Rente (Cs)
73100 Lecce
80138 Napoli
1012 WX Amsterdam
Bergen
1678 Nicosia
90089-1147 Los Angeles, California
00-927 Warszawa
84507 Bratislava
10963 Berlin
103 78 Stockholm
1050 Brussel