title: Building an infrastructure for scientific Grid computing: status and goals of the EGEE project.
abstract: The state of computer and networking technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.
authors.affiliation: CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland. fabrizio.gagliardi@cern.ch
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gagliardi
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grey
authors.forename: Marc-Elian
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bégin
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heikkurinen
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D005060:Europe; D048088:Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008954:Models, Biological; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012107:Research Design; D012586:Science / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States