EGI
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is a federation of resource providers set up to deliver sustainable, integrated and secure grid computing services to researchers. Its mission is to allow scientists from all fields to make the most out of the latest computing technologies for the benefit of their research.
Examples of practical applications of grid computing to science include: the analysis of the experimental data pouring out of the LHC particle accelerator at CERN; in silico experiments where thousands of molecules are tested as potential cures against well-known diseases such as Alzheimer’s; analysis of medical imaging techniques to enable better and faster diagnostics; genetic sequencing; running simulations testing climate and environment change models. All of these tasks can be executed with the help of grid computing for a fraction of the time and money that would cost to run them on normal computer clusters.
The infrastructure is managed by EGI.eu – a not-for-profit foundation established in 2010 to coordinate the infrastructure on behalf of its participants: National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs).
