The European Grid Infrastructure EGEE Project
Fabrizio Gagliardi · Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XIII · 2004
This paper describes the motivation for the EGEE (Enabling Grids for e-Science in Europe) proposal recently made to the EU and the background activity behind this initiative 1. Progress of DataGrid The EU DataGrid project, the major grid development European effort, will complete its activity at the beginning of 2004. The results of its intense three years of activity show in a testbed that comprises 12 sites in 6 countries and which provides significant computing and storage resources to a community of approximately 500 users from thirteen different virtual organizations. The latest release of the DataGrid software has been successfully validated on a large set of applications, ranging from High Energy Physics to Bio-Informatics and Earth Observation. This software is now the basis of the current CERN Large Hadron Collider Grid Project first production infrastructure, the facility that is being setup for the analysis of data that will be produced by the new CERN accelerator (LHC). Although a considerable amount of work remains to be done, EDG, with its achievements, has proved the validity of the Grid concept and paved the way for the next generation Grid production infrastructure for a much wider multiscience international community.