The EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 140 institutions in 50 countries world-wide. EGEE is the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure. CSC joined the project in 2006.

Objective

The aim of the project is to provide researchers with world-wide computing capacity through the grid technology. The project offers researchers flexible grid infrastructure 24 hours a day, regardless of the user’s site of research.

Originally, EGEE served only two research fields, high-energy physics and biosciences, but currently EGEE integrates applications from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from geology to computational chemistry. The EGEE infrastructure is ideal for any scientific research, especially where the research involves complex programs and their running requires a lot of time and resources.

Capacity

EGEE processes up to 300,000 jobs per day and comprises more than 80,000 CPU cores and several tens petabytes of storage that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.