EGEE Meetings in Stockholm
All of the EGEE operations activity and collaborating Grids are meeting at KTH in Stockholm in June 2007.
EGEE Operations meeting in Stockholm (detailed information)
The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 32 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and is funded by the European Commission.
Expanding from originally two scientific fields, high energy physics and life sciences, EGEE now integrates applications from many other scientific fields, ranging from geology to computational chemistry. Generally, the EGEE Grid infrastructure is ideal for any scientific research especially where the time and resources needed for running the applications are considered impractical when using traditional IT infrastructures.
The EGEE Grid consists of over 40,000 CPU available to users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in addition to about 10 Petabytes (10 million Gigabytes) of storage, and maintains 40,000 concurrent jobs on average. Having such resources available changes the way scientific research takes place. The end use depends on the users' needs: large storage capacity, the bandwidth that the infrastructure provides, or the sheer computing power available.
The Operations activity is the part of the EGEE-II project that is responsible for providing the EGEE grid services. This responsibility includes middleware deployment, as well as day to day operations and user support. A lot of responsibility for these activities within the regional federations rests with the Regional Operations Centres (ROCs). The ROCs also provide operations support - acting as Grid Operations Centres in analogy with Network Operations Centres, and provide operational and performance monitoring, troubleshooting, etc. as well as providing general grid services such as VO-related services, database services, etc. The SA1 operations activity is coordinated by the Operations Coordination Centre (OCC) at CERN.
