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
How is industry involved?
Industry is involved in the EGEE project in a number of ways. Firstly,
the project has a specific activity called the Industry Forum
whose role it is to raise awareness of EGEE within industry and
encourage businesses to participate in the project and to use its
results.
Read more about the Industry Forum >>.
EGEE also has a number of industrial partners who are involved in the project (such as DataMAT and CSSI) and help guide developments such as the middleware to ensure it is developed in line with industry requirements . The open source middleware (gLite) and the industry friendly software license make it easy to transfer EGEE technology to industry. gLite has been interfaced to industrial packages such as LSF and ORACLE. Through related projects (e.g. health-e-child) the middleware and grid operations techniques are being used for potential industrial exploitation.
There is also an industrial application running on the EGEE Production
Service. Geocluster, the leading industry Seismic Processing Solution,
is the first industrial application successfully running on the EGEE
Production Service, within the Expanding GEOsciences on DEmand (EGEODE)
Virtual Organisation (VO). EGEODE is dedicated to research in
geosciences for both and private Industrial Research & Development and
Academic Laboratories. It has been running on the EGEE Production
Service since early 2005.
More information about EGEODE >>
Finally, the EGEE project is likely to be a source of innovative IT technologies. This spin-off is anticipated to have benefits for industry and commerce going well beyond scientific computing, in much the same way that the World Wide Web, initially conceived for science, has had a much broader impact on society.
Industry is actively encouraged to further industrial involvement in EGEE and people can contact either the Project Office at CERN or the Dissemination and Outreach team for further information.