Amsterdam to host EGI.org

Amsterdam has been chosen to host EGI.org, the coordinating organization responsible for managing the European Grid Initiative (EGI). Amsterdam was selected as the host city at the last EGI policy board meeting in Catania on Monday 2 March 2009, ahead of seven other European cities that also expressed their interest in hosting the EGI Organization. “The choice of the location of the EGI.org headquarters is a further and decisive step towards the implementation of a sustainable European grid infrastructure”, said Gaspar Barreira, chairman of the EGI Policy Board. “From now on we will be all mobilised for the real establishment of a new international research infrastructure in Europe, where a large number of countries will put together and operate the world’s largest grid computing facility.” Read more here