Project: EGEE
EGEE is a project that brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 32 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and is funded by the European Commission.
EPCC’s role in Phase 1 of EGEE was to lead the development of two key pieces of network-level Grid software:
- Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), provididing access to standardised network performance characteristics, and;
- Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation (BAR), allowing Grid middleware to make immediate and advance reservations of network connectivity specified in terms of bandwidth, duration and quality of service.
In Phase 2 EPCC was responsible for the brokering of network performance monitoring measurements collected across the EGEE Grid infrastructure.
EGEE was jointly funded by the European Commission and the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC.