Common use of Pilot applications Clause in Contracts

Pilot applications. In order to establish an application portfolio for EGEE in the early stages of the I3 we will focus on the application needs of two committed groups of users: the Particle Physics community, in particular the 4 LHC experiments, and the Biomedical community. The need for a reliable, robust, production quality Grid infrastructure for these early-user communities has already been established in the pioneering work of the EU DataGrid Project and other national initiatives across Europe over the past 3 years. Considerable work has already taken place to encourage the creation of Grid-enabled applications in these two sectors and we intend to build on this.

Pilot applications. In order to establish an application portfolio for EGEE in the early stages of the I3 we will focus on the application needs of two committed groups of users: the Particle Physics community, in particular the 4 LHC experiments, and the Biomedical community. The need for a reliable, robust, production quality Grid infrastructure for these early-user communities has already been established in the pioneering work of the EU DataGrid DataGRID Project and other national initiatives across Europe over the past 3 years. Considerable work has already taken place to encourage the creation of Grid-enabled applications in these two sectors and we intend to build on this.