Network and Grid: the EGEE use-case

Mathieu Goutelle, Jean-Paul Gautier

In this article we propose a description of the networking activities within a grid project: EGEE. These activities are focused on the access to the provided services (resource reservation) and on the operational constraints of such an architecture (operational interface with networks, sla installation, monitoring). Even if the egee project may have some peculiarities, numerous issues are not egee specific, particularly the ones about network. They prefigure a possible evolution of future network usage, not only by egee or other distributed computing projects, but by any potential user.