The challenge...
When the EU-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project started in 2004, it faced the challenge of building a permanent European grid infrastructure that could reliably provide round-the-clock grid service to scientists throughout Europe.

The work...
By the end of 2005, some 800 scientists and engineers from five different continents were working on EGEE. They had created a grid of 10,000 computers from 200 sites around the world. Between October 2004 and October 2005, two million jobs were successfully run on this grid!

Today's payoff...
Today, and every day, the EGEE grid completes more than 150,000 jobs for scientists around the world. EGEE engineers now manage a grid that shares the power and storage of more than 68,000 dedicated computers at over 250 sites in 48 countries, encompassing major computer centres in Europe as well as leading American and Russian centres.