The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006. public.eu-egee.org
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006
EGEE-II is a project funded by the European Union under contract number INFSO-RI-031688
The EGEE-II project ended on the 31 March 2008.
EGEE III started on 1 April 2008 and the new EGEE website can be found at: www.eu-egee.org
EGEE-III is a project funded by the European Union under contract number FP7-222667
Introduction information
The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 32 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and is funded by the European Commission.Expanding from originally two scientific fields, high energy physics and life sciences, EGEE now integrates applications from many other scientific fields, ranging from geology to computational chemistry. Generally, the EGEE Grid infrastructure is ideal for any scientific research especially where the time and resources needed for running the applications are considered impractical when using traditional IT infrastructures.
The EGEE Grid consists of over 20,000 CPU available to users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in addition to about 5 Petabytes (5 million Gigabytes) of storage, and maintains 20,000 concurrent jobs on average. Having such resources available changes the way scientific research takes place. The end use depends on the users' needs: large storage capacity, the bandwidth that the infrastructure provides, or the sheer computing power available.