EGEE News - January 2005
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Operations   
100 sites, 10,000 CPUs
The  mark has been set. The Operations Activity of the EGEE project has successfully linked additional resources into the production service, reaching hereby  110 sites on the EGEE -LCG infrastructure. With the new sites, the infrastructure now enables over 10,000 CPUs. Thus, the infrastructure links already half of the total number envisioned for the end of the project, with still 14 months to go. With successful proof of concept tests of interoperation between GRID3 and EGEE-LCG sites this number might soon grow. In just one day 12 sites from the Italian GridIT project have been linked with the EGEE-LCG production services, showing the advantages of grid federations. 

EGEE    Reporting  
First Period
The EGEE project has just completed its first period. The first nine-months of the project have witnessed advancements, taken on new tasks and faced multiple challenges. To keep track of the complex project activity, EGEE sums up the above developments in various reports to the EU, which have proven vital to work towards a successful EU Review. The outcome of this event depends on the quality content of both reports and deliverables. The deliverables and milestones describe the completion or process of various tasks that the project activities have been entrusted with. In total, 35 deliverables have been submitted  by EGEE  to the EU and 27 milestones have been reached. An important achievement leads the outstanding track record of milestones: Already at nine months into the project, it has already achieved its two year target of having five science disciplines (chemistry, astronomy, physics, earth science, biomedical) making use of the infrastructure.

EGEE management would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the authors, reviewers and moderators for the effort in getting all deliverables in shape just in time for the EU Review, scheduled for February 9-11. The review will be attended by 90 key participants from EGEE, and assessed by five independent EU-appointed reviewers. A series of presentations and demos is under intensive preparation to ensure the project passes this review with flying colours. Full details are found on http://egee-intranet.web.cern.ch/egee-intranet/EU_Review/index.html .  

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First Contract Amendment      
The first EGEE contract amendment has been signed by the European Commission with effect from January 25th 2005  . ___________________________________
EGEE in Numbers  
1033 people have attended 39 training events that have delivered a total of 15,797 participant days.