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World's largest scientific grid computing project:
The E-sciencE II (EGEE-II) project
Launched: September 2006, for use by scientists around the world.
Helps power: Large-scale scientific research projects in fields from geology to chemistry—for example, will analyze data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator being built to help investigate details around the Big Bang and related physics questions.
Amount of work it does: 98,000 jobs a day, more than 1 million per month.
Juggling ability: Runs about 30,000 jobs concurrently, on average.
Number of sites connected to the EGEE infrastructure: About 240.
Number of countries connected to the EGEE infrastructure: 45.
Number of CPUs available to users, 24/7: More than 36,000.
Storage capacity available: About 5 PB disk space (5 million GB).
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