1. Introduction to EDGeS

In the context of Distributed Data Processing, EDGeS is a project bridging the EGEE Service Grid infrastructure, using the gLite middleware, with Desktop Grid infrastructures using the BOINC or the XtremWeb-HEP middleware.EDGeS is a European project about Distributed Data Processing.

Funded by EC FP7 Research Infrastructures under number 211727, EDGeS started on 01 January 2008 and ended successfully on 31 March 2010.

The goal of EDGeS was to bridge the EGEE Service Grid infrastructure, using the gLite middleware, with Desktop Grid infrastructures using the BOINC or the XtremWeb-HEP middleware.

EDGeS achieved this goal and even bridged the EELA Grid infrastructure, using the gLite middleware, with the Brazilian Desktop Grid infrastructure using the OurGrid middleware.

EDGeS is now followed by the EDGI and DEGISCO projects.