Key European Grid event to take place in Geneva

EGEE'06 is the main conference of the EGEE project, which is co-funded by the European Union and hosted by CERN. More than 90 partners all over Europe and beyond are working together in EGEE to provide researchers in both academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location. The largest user community of the EGEE Grid is the High-Energy Physics community and in particular the LHC experiments, which are already making heavy use of the infrastructure to prepare for data taking.

However, with the many new challenges faced by EGEE in its second phase that started in April this year, an even broader audience than at previous EGEE conferences is expected. In particular, a large number of related Grid projects will feature prominently in both plenary and parallel sessions during the 5 days of this event. Industry will also be well represented, highlighting the EGEE project's commitment to technology transfer to industry. CERN is the host of the conference, which is being organised at the 'International Conference Centre Geneva' (CICG) close to the United Nations, and the other Geneva-based international organisations are invited to discover how they can profit from this cutting-edge technology. A demonstration and poster session of live Grid applications will be organised with a competition for the best demo and a sponsored prize.

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