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
What is a Grid?
The short answer is that whereas the World Wide Web is a service for sharing information over the Internet, the Grid is a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity over the Internet.
The Grid goes well beyond simple communication between computers, and aims ultimately to turn the global network of computers into one vast computational resource.
The reality is that today, the Grid is a "work in progress", with the underlying technology still in a prototype phase, and being developed by hundreds of researchers and software engineers around the world.
GRNET, the EGEE Partners in Greece have produced an introductory video, which we have available as a stream.
Grid Cafe has more information about Grid Computing in general.
How does EGEE fit in?
The EGEE project aims to provide researchers in academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location. The EGEE project will also focus on attracting a wide range of new users to the Grid.
The EGEE project will primarily concentrate on three core areas:
The first area is to build a consistent, robust and secure Grid network that will attract additional computing resources.
The second area is to continuously improve and maintain the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users.
The third area is to attract new users from industry as well as science and ensure they receive the high standard of training and support they need.
The EGEE Grid will be built on the EU Research Network GEANT and exploit Grid expertise generated by many EU, national and international Grid projects to date.
Please see introduction for more information.