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The EGEE project: building an international production grid infrastructure EGEE - what is it and why is it needed? Middleware – current and future Operations – providing a stable service Networking – enabling collaboration Summary The material for this talk has been contributed by many colleagues in the EGEE LCG projects. It is heavily based on Bob Jones’ talk at UK AHM 2004. Technological push? Is Grid technology merely a ‘funding opportunity’? Is it an example of scientists wanting to do something because they (just about) could? Grids vs. Distributed Computing Existing distributed applications: tend to be specialised systems intended for a single purpose or user group Grids go further and take into account: Different kinds of resources Not always the same hardware, data and applications Different kinds of interactions User groups or applications want to interact with Grids in different ways Dynamic nature Resources and users added/removed/changed frequently What is Grid Computing? A Virtual Organisation is: People from different institutions working to solve a common goal Sharing distributed processing and data resources Grid infrastructure enables virtual organisations The terms of the problem Technological progress produces more sophisticated digital sensors (particle physics detectors, satellites, radio-telescopes, synchrotrons…) Much of science is therefore becoming increasingly “data-intensive” Huge amounts of data need to be analyzed by large and geographically distributed scientific communities Consequently, single computers, clusters or supercomputers are not powerful enough for the necessary calculations and the data processing The Grid: a possible solution The World Wide Web provides seamless access to information stored in different geographical locations The Grid provides seamless access to computing power and data storage capacity distributed over the globe Relies on advanced software, called middleware: authenticates, authorizes and acco