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Towards Cloud Computing: Opportunities and challenges for e-Science Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi EMEA LATAM Director, Technical Computing, Microsoft Research Fabrizio.Gagliardi@ Abstract A new science paradigm has emerged in the last few years referred to as electronic Science (e- Science). It extensively uses simulation techniques based on software modeling which run on distributed computing infrastructures. In addition, it makes use of huge amounts of distributed and shared data captured by instruments or sensors and/or stored in databases, analyzed to provide new results for science. This distributed HPC and data environment allows sharing the acquired knowledge, accessing remote resources and enabling world-wide scientific collaboration. The EU Datagrid project was one of the first examples of Grid computing, which was followed by the EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science) project. The High Energy Physicists at CERN and the research community were among the first to adopt Grid computing. The two EGEE project phases have up to date integrated more than 50.000 CPUs in Europe and beyond, and 20 Peta Bytes (millions of GigaBytes) of storage, serving multiple application communities including HEP, Bioinformatics, Astrophysics, Computational Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Fusion. Some business/industrial applications are also adopting this distributed HPC computing model such as the automotive, finance, multimedia, and there a few examples of e-Government ones such as in the civil protection area. Hence, Grid computing has delivered an affordable and high performance computing infrastructure