Researchers connected to the UK's national grid service can now carry out long term collaborative research with peers across Europe through an improved network. Scientists in the UK can tap into the new grid initiative, called EGI.eu, to access computing power, data, software and storage space in over 50 countries.
EGI.eu does not own or operate any computers, but co-ordinates thousands of clusters of computers hosted in university departments and data centers, national hubs and even desktop PCs. The UK, along with the other nations, will contribute resources and make contributions of funding each year to a common pot to ensure that the initiative is sustainable. By creating this improved network, the Europe-wide research community hopes to make significant breakthroughs in data-intensive scientific research, previously considered too time consuming to consider.
The UK's national grid initiative is made up of the National Grid Service and GridPP projects funded by JISC, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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