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EGEE-II aims to build on the work of the EGEE project, which was conceived as the
first two-year phase of a four-year programme, to provide a production quality
Grid infrastructure across the European Research Area and beyond. Researchers in
academia and industry already benefit from the EGEE e- Infrastructure, which
simultaneously supports many applications from diverse scientific areas, providing
a common pool of resources, independent of geographic location, with round-the-clock
access to major storage, compute and networking facilities.
The EGEE-II project will significantly extend and consolidate this infrastructure,
which links national, regional and thematic Grid efforts, as well as interoperate
with other Grids around the globe. The resulting high capacity, world-wide
infrastructure greatly surpasses the capabilities of local clusters and individual
centres, providing a unique tool for collaborative compute intensive science
("e-Science").
So far, several large and small-scale communities use the EGEE infrastructure as
an every-day tool for their work. Applications deployed come from High Energy
Physics, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences (including the industrial application EGEODE),
Astrophysics, and Computational Chemistry. EGEE-II will expand the portfolio of
supported applications to include Fusion as well as other disciplines.
The EGEE-II Consortium consists of more than 90 partners from 32 countries, grouped
into 13 federations and representing almost all major and national Grid efforts in
Europe, as well as projects from the US and Asia. In addition, a number of related
projects will extend the infrastructure further, to the Mediterranean area, Baltic
States, Latin America and China. Combined with other related projects spun out from
or affiliated with EGEE and EGEE-II, this demonstrates the incubator role the
project has played around the world. With an expanded Consortium of enthusiastic
participants and a large range of related projects, EGEE-II will be able to further
develop its infrastructure into a truly pervasive global platform for e-Science.
More information on EGEE II go to http://www.eu-egee.org/
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