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EGEE UKI

Welcome to the UKI Federation site. This website provides information on activities in the UK and Ireland relating to the EGEE project, in particular regional GRID operations supported by the UKI Regional Operations Centre (ROC) as well as GRID Training Events and News from the UK and Ireland.

The UK and Ireland Federation have eight “Partners” involved in the EGEE project – CCLRC, DANTE Ltd, Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Oxford and Imperial College, London and the Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth.

These UKI partners between them cover all Networking Activities of the EGEE Project of Management, Dissemination, Training, Application Identification and Support and Policy and International Cooperation. A number of partners are also involved in the Service Activities, mainly European Grid Support, Operation and Management, but also Networking Support and Integration, Testing and Certification. CCLRC are also involved in the Middleware Re-engineering activity.

There are also two further “Contracting Partners” who have signed a memorandum with EGEE: The Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies in Reading and the University of Leeds.

For a breakdown of activities partners are involved in go to http://homepages.nesc.ac.uk/~scotland/egee/EGEE_UK_partners.html

Regional Operations Centre

The Regional Operations Centre has a key role in the process of building and operating the infrastructure. The ROC will have the expertise to assist the growing number of Resource Centres in joining the infrastructure, through the deployment of middleware releases and the development of procedures and capabilities to operate those resources.

Latest News

ANNOUNCING EGEE'07

The Sixth EGEE Conference - EGEE'07- will take place 1-5 October 2007 at the Europe Congress Center (ECC), Budapest, Hungary. The beautiful city of Budapest will provide the backdrop for this key European event dedicated to Grid technology. EGEE annual conferences are regularly attended by a large international Grid community coming together to discuss a wide range of issues, the latest developments, and international co-operation, with the aim of driving forward world-class Grid technologies.

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November 22, 2006

EGEE-II is a project funded by the European Union under contract number INFSO-RI-031688