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The [[European Union]] funded projects through the [[framework programme]]s of the [[European Commission]]. [[BEinGRID]] (Business Experiments in Grid) was a research project funded by the European Commission<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beingrid.eu/|title=beingrid.eu: Stromkosten Vergleiche -|website=beingrid.eu: Stromkosten Vergleiche|access-date=14 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723100417/http://www.beingrid.eu/|archive-date=23 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> as an [[Integrated Project (EU)|Integrated Project]] under the [[Sixth Framework Programme]] (FP6) sponsorship program. Started on June 1, 2006, the project ran 42 months, until November 2009. The project was coordinated by [[Atos Origin]]. According to the project fact sheet, their mission is “to establish effective routes to foster the adoption of grid computing across the EU and to stimulate research into innovative business models using Grid technologies”. To extract best practice and common themes from the experimental implementations, two groups of consultants are analyzing a series of pilots, one technical, one business. The project is significant not only for its long duration but also for its budget, which at 24.8 million Euros, is the largest of any FP6 integrated project. Of this, 15.7 million is provided by the European Commission and the remainder by its 98 contributing partner companies. Since the end of the project, the results of BEinGRID have been taken up and carried forward by [[IT-Tude.com]].

The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project, based in the [[European Union]] and included sites in Asia and the United States, was a follow-up project to the European DataGrid (EDG) and evolved into the [[European Grid Infrastructure]]. This, along with the [[Worldwide LHC Computing Grid]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wlcg.web.cern.ch/|title=Welcome to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - WLCG|website=wlcg.web.cern.ch|access-date=14 March 2018|archive-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725112849/http://wlcg.web.cern.ch/|url-status=live}}</ref> (LCGWLCG), was developed to support experiments using the [[CERN]] [[Large Hadron Collider]]. A list of active sites participating within LCGWLCG can be found online<ref>{{cite web |url=http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/ |title=GStat 2.0&nbsp;– Summary View&nbsp;– GRID EGEE |publisher=Goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw |access-date=July 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320145926/http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/ |archive-date=March 20, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as can real time monitoring of the EGEE infrastructure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/ |title=Real Time Monitor |publisher=Gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk |access-date=July 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216124323/http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/ |archive-date=December 16, 2009 }}</ref> The relevant software and documentation is also publicly accessible.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/activities/deployment.html |title=LCG&nbsp;– Deployment |publisher=Lcg.web.cern.ch |access-date=July 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117002656/http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/activities/deployment.html |archive-date=November 17, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> There is speculation that dedicated fiber optic links, such as those installed by CERN to address the LCGWLCG's data-intensive needs, may one day be available to home users thereby providing internet services at speeds up to 10,000 times faster than a traditional broadband connection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|website=thetimes.co.uk|access-date=14 March 2018|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225020225/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[European Grid Infrastructure]] has been also used for other research activities and experiments such as the simulation of oncological clinical trials.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Athanaileas, Theodoros| title=Exploiting grid technologies for the simulation of clinical trials: the paradigm of in silico radiation oncology | journal=SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International | volume=87 | number=10 | pages=893–910 | year=2011 | doi=10.1177/0037549710375437| s2cid=206429690 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>

The [[distributed.net]] project was started in 1997.