Grid Computing in Europe: From Research to Deployment
Rüdiger Berlich, M. Kunze, Kilian Schwarz · 2005
Grid Computing has, over the past few years, matured sufficiently to make it a viable solution for realworld problems. However, there are many different toolkits today that allow to build a Grid environment. And while this wealth of different solutions may offer techniques applicable to the widest possible range of computational problems, their very availability directly contradicts the inherent promise of the "World Wide Grid" to offer a compatible and standardised infrastructure. The European Union project EGEE aims at a consolidation of existing efforts and will assist in the deployment of the resulting Grid middleware gLite by offering support and training to new users, both in academia and industry. This paper introduces the historical...