09.10.2007 BaseN participated in EGEE’07
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE announced at the EGEE’07 conference in Budapest that the grid leaders have successfully managed unprecedented computing workloads over the summer months of July, August and September. Doubling the average number of jobs since the spring quarter, EGEE ran 100,000 jobs daily, powered by an infrastructure of 41,000 CPUs.
Sites from all over the world, some 250 computing centers in 48 countries, contributed to the work, allowing 25,000 jobs to be run simultaneously. This kind of cooperation is the key to EGEE’s continued success, according to many of the conference’s speakers, such as BaseN CEO & President Pasi Hurri.
- For BaseN this is an ideal society to develop the long term computing needs with the other grid leaders around the world, Hurri said after his successful presentation at the conference.
- Our business model with grid technology combined with energy measuring raised a significant interest among the audience, he added.
The EGEE project
The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project brings together scientists and engineers from more than 240 institutions in 45 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. BaseN is a member of the EGEE consortium.
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. The project aims to provide researchers in both academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location.
Expanding from originally two scientific fields, high energy physics and life sciences, EGEE now integrates applications from many other scientific fields, ranging from geology to computational chemistry. Generally, the EGEE Grid infrastructure is ideal for any scientific research especially where the time and resources needed for running the applications are considered impractical when using traditional IT infrastructures.
The FennoGrid Association
BaseN is one of the founder members of The FennoGrid Association with the purpose of sharing information on grid and peer-to-peer research and promoting co-operation projects in these fields. Pasi Hurri is the Vice Chair of the executive committee of FennoGrid.