The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
Digital Libraries
The GRACE (GRid enabled seArch and Categorisation Engine) project ended in February 2005. The aim of the project was to implement a distributed search and categorisation engine based on Grid technology. GRACE provided concrete and early feedback to EGEE on the usage of the grid and contributed to the dissemination of grid awareness.
Computational Chemistry
CHARON is a generic system for using application programs in the EGEE/VOCE Grid environment. CHARON was developed by the computational chemistry community in the Czech Republic to provide an easily manageable, comfortable and modular environment to fulfill specific requirements of computational chemistry application users.
CompChem is using the Simbex application to implement a simulation environment to study reaction dynamics of complex chemical systems.
Earth Science Applications
There are four domains in Earth Science Research (ESR): Earth Observation, Hydrology, Climatology and Solid Earth Physics. In each domain at least one application has been deployed on EGEE and GILDA.
- Earth Observation has deployed the GOME satellite to collect ozone profiles and also uses data from the ERS/SAR satellite experiment, which is used for oil spill detection. The Grid will assist scientists to analyse ozone retrieval by enabling a single computing environment for the different steps, allowing the data to be easily shared between different 'producers' and 'consumers'.
- Solid Earth Physics applications deal with earthquake mechanisms and the numerical simulation of earthquakes in complex 3D geological models.
- The first Hydrology application on EGEE investigates the impact of exploitation uncertainty on seawater intrusion in a coastal aquifer of the mediterranean basin, using Monte Carlo simulations based on a 3D density-dependant groundwater flow and salt transport model.
- In relation to Climatology, a flood forecasting application is being migrated from the CrossGrid test bed to EGEE. The application consists a cascade of simulations that are initialised with experimental data and use meteorology, hydrology and hydraulic models to provide the results.
Geophysics Applications
Geocluster, an industrial seismic processing solution, is the first industrial application successfully running on the EGEE Grid Production Service, within the Expanding GEOsciences on DEmand (EGEODE) Virtual Organisation (VO). EGEODE is dedicated to research in Geosciences for both public and private industrial research and development as well as academic laboratories. It enables researchers to process seismic data and to explore the composition of the Earth's layers.
Astrophysics Applications
The MAGIC application simulates the behaviour of air showers in the atmosphere, which are caused by high energetic primary cosmic rays. These simulations are needed to analyse the data of the MAGIC telescope, located on the Canary Islands, to study the origin and the properties of high energy gamma rays. The first data challenge on the EGEE infrastructure began at the beginning of March 2005.
The ESA Planck mission aims to map the microwave sky performing at least two complete sky surveys with an unprecedented combination of sky and frequency coverage, accuracy, stability and sensitivity. The satellite will be launched in 2007 carrying a payload composed of a number of microwave and sub-millimetre detectors, which are grouped into a high frequency instrument (HFI) and a low frequency instrument (LFI) covering frequency channels ranging from 30 to 900GHz.
The ANTARES Collaboration is constructing a large area water Cherenkov detector in the deep Mediterranean Sea, optimised for the detection of muons from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
The NEMO Project is an underwater Cherenkov telescope in the Mediterranean Sea looking for high energy neutrinos.
Fusion Applications
The ITER Project which is a plasma physics application which aims to create a hydrogen plasma torus operating at over 100 million °C, and could potentially produce 500 MW of fusion power by around 2016.
Financial Applications
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is implementing an national Italian Grid infrastructure for financial and economic research in the framework of the "Egrid project", funded by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research.