The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) provides European researchers with access to computing resources. And not just any computing resources – we’re talking big resources, the kind needed by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider. There’s some interesting overlap between the EGI's work and the Software Sustainability Institute, especially when it comes to supporting research, so this week I’m at the EGI User Forum to find out more.

If you’re interested in the grid, the EGI has some very good resources to describe their work. They’ve created a guide to the grid, which describes what’s what and who’s who, and they have a blog cast that keeps everyone up to date with the latest developments.