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Resources and Services of the EGEE Production Infrastructure

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This paper presents the pan-European EGEE Grid focusing on aspects such as production infrastructure, the management tools and the operational services offered. Usage statistics and the provided Quality of Service are analysed to assess the maturity level, the current penetration of Grid technologies in Europe and the current expansion trends. Being EGEE a large distributed infrastructure, operations are a joint effort of different regional centres with central coordination. EGEE operations rely on a common and agreed set of procedures, policies and interfaces, which are the foundation of operational services such as middleware deployment, Grid oversight, accounting, operational security management and support. A transition is in place to lead EGEE to a more sustainable approach based on a set of integrated National Grid Initiatives. With the support of the EGI-InSPIRE project the EGEE e-infrastructure and its services will migrate into a new governance model for the future sustainability of Grids in Europe.

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, CNAF, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy

    Tiziana Ferrari

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy

    Luciano Gaido

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Ferrari, T., Gaido, L. Resources and Services of the EGEE Production Infrastructure. J Grid Computing 9, 119–133 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-011-9184-1

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