EGEE

EGEE, which stands for Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, was a European project that aimed to build on existing grid technologies to enable the development of a service grid infrastructure. The project was funded by the European Commission and ran from 2004 to 2008. EGEE's primary goal was to provide a seamless, secure, and reliable infrastructure for the scientific community to share computing resources, data, and other services across different institutions and countries.

The EGEE infrastructure was based on the gLite middleware, which provided a set of tools and services for grid computing. These included a resource broker for job scheduling, a data management system for handling large datasets, and a security infrastructure for authentication and authorization. The project also developed a range of applications and services to demonstrate the potential of the EGEE infrastructure, including in fields such as high-energy physics, bioinformatics, and earth observation.

EGEE was a collaborative effort involving over 100 partners from academia, industry, and research institutions across Europe. The project was coordinated by the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) association, which was established in 2006 to continue the work of EGEE and to build a sustainable grid infrastructure for the European research community. EGI has since grown to become a major provider of grid and cloud computing services for research and industry in Europe.