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EGEE-III (Enabling Grids for e-Science)
http://eu-egee.org (EGEE-III)
The original goals of EGEE as a project to host the uptake of Grid technologies in Europe are being achieved in a very successful way. The main goal of EGEE-III is to make a strong move towards a sustainable world-wide production quality Grid infrastructure by appropriate technical and organisational decisions. This must be capable of providing services to a rapidly increasing number of application areas, and make Grid technology easily accessible and usable for these communities.
The essential goals associated with this are:
- The provision of continuous operational and deployment support with world-wide coverage which can cope with the predicted growth in sites and utilisation;
- To establish and encourage best practices regarding security across all aspects of the project; applications, middleware, deployment and operations.
- Collaboration with mature applications domains, in particular via selected centres of excellence, as primary source of innovation and collaboration with user communities
- The provision of reliable and performative Grid middleware foundation services to users with the appropriate integration and deployment;
- The provision of selected high level middleware support services for selected, priority application areas, with an associated integration and deployment process;
- The provision of high quality support for the wide range of VOs, comprising training, access to documentation, applications support and day to day Grid user support;
- Enhance the distribution of information to a wide range of prospective and current users, to aid the expansion of the use of Grid technology world-wide by scientific and business communities
- Ensure the overall world-wide coherence of the developments by ongoing work with other Grid projects, European and worldwide networking organizations, and world-wide standards organisations.
- Collaborate with NGIs and the proposed EGI design study to promote the move towards sustainable grid infrastructures in Europe
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