History
The European DataGrid project was first funded in 2001 for three years as one of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development series. Fabrizio Gagliardi was project manager of DataGrid and its budget was about 12 million Euro, with the full project named "Research and Technological Development for an International Data Grid".
A major motivation behind the concept was the massive data requirements of the Large Hadron Collider project of the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN).
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