"We are all very happy about the smooth start of the second phase of EGEE," said Project Director Bob Jones. "The project builds on the successes of its first two years and now we are focussing on stability of the deployed infrastructure. Growing beyond our pilot application areas of HEP and biomedicine, we now see increasing use by researchers from other fields. Recently we've added finance and fusion to the list of disciplines we support, and we are always looking for new users." 

Conceived as a four-year project, EGEE started in April 2004 concentrating on two scientific fields: high energy physics and life sciences. In this initial phase it grew to cover numerous disciplines, from geology to computational chemistry, and now has 30,000 CPUS at over 200 sites around the world.

The EGEE project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 39 countries all over the world to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available for scientists 24 hours-a-day.