EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST EGEE Summary NA2 Partners April 2004 EGEE Project: April The EGEE vision To provide distributed research communities with a common market of computing, offering round-the-clock access to major computing resources, independent of geographic location linked via EU Research Network GANT and NRENs building on the national initiatives and previous grid projects. EGEE will support common Grid computing needs, integrate the computing infrastructures of these communities and agree on common access policies. Complete re-engineering of the middleware, and by a pro-active program of outreach and training to attract and support the widest possible variety of scientific communities in the ERA. EGEE Project: April EGEE Threefold Mission 1. To deliver production level Grid services the essential elements of which are manageability, robustness, resilience to failure a consistent security model, as well as the scalability needed to rapidly absorb new resources as these become available ensuring the long-term viability of the infrastructure. 2. To carry out a professional Grid middleware re-engineering activity in support of the production services. this will support and continuously upgrade a suite of software tools capable of providing production level Grid services to a base of users which is anticipated to rapidly grow and diversify. 3. To ensure an outreach and training effort which can proactively market Grid services to new research communities in academia and industry capture new e-Science requirements for the middleware and service activities provide the necessary education to enable new users to benefit from the Grid infrastructure. EGEE Project: April EGEE Reaching New Communities Over the duration of the project the Grid Services will be expanded and taken to new communities EGEE Project: April Regionally Based Federations All work in EGEE will be organised on the basis of regionally based federations EGEE Project: April The EGEE Activities JRA1: Middleware Engineering and Integration JRA2: Quality Assurance JRA3: Security JRA4: Network Services Development SA1: Grid Operations, Support and Management SA2: Network Resource Provision NA1: Management NA2: Dissemination and Outreach NA3: User Training and Education NA4: Application Identification and Support NA5: Policy and International Cooperation 24% Joint Research28% Networking 48% Services Emphasis in EGEE is on operating a production grid and supporting the end- users 32 Million Euros EU funding over 2 years starting 1 st April 2004 EGEE Project: April Contractual Details I 3 Project The project start date is April 1st 2004 The project duration is 24 months The total project budget is XX,XXX,XXX Euro The EU financial contribution for the project is a total of 31,867,000 Euro There are 70 partners 27 participating Countries Arranged in 12 federations Estimated 600 FTEs to be deployed during the project Target a combined CPUs