Skobeltsin Institute of Nuclear Physics is an independent research institution within Lomonosov Moscow State University. SINP MSU is well known in the scientific community by its works in high energy, nuclear physics and physics of space.

SINP MSU has significant experience in researching and running the distributed computing systems, networking, middleware installation and maintenance. SINP MSU group was participating in the international project EU DataGRID, and currently participates in "The LHC Computing Grid Project (LCG)". The latter is being supported by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and aims to apply the Grid technology for high energy physics.

SINP MSU goup has built a Grid site within EU DataGrid infrastructure and that was the first successful use of global distributed computing in Russia. SINP MSU was one of 12 pioneering grid institutions (and very first in Russia) that formed a global Grid infrastructure within LCG-1 project.

Currently, SINP MSU has established a Core Infrastructure Center for European projects EGEE/LCG and RDIG.

In order to ensure the full-scale participation of Russia in the EGEE project, the Consortium RDIG (Russian Data Intensive Grid) has been formed in September of 2003. Memorandum has been signed by the heads of eight large institutes, including Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino), Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology (Pushchino), Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics (Moscow), Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (Moscow), Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (St.Petersburg) and RSC "Kurchatov Institute" (Moscow).

Consortium RDIG enters EGEE structure as a regional federation “Russia”. Its goal is to create a fully operational EGEE infrastructure in Russia including establishing a Russian Core Infrastructure Centre (CIC), distributed Regional Operations Centre (ROC), full scale participation in EGEE evolution from two pilot applications to an infrastructure serving multiple scientific and technological communities, outreach and dissemination activity targeting researchers from both scientific community and industry.

The main goal of the EGEE project (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) is to create global Grid infrastructure. The project aims to provide researchers in academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location.

The project will primarily concentrate on: (a) building a consistent, robust and secure Grid network that will attract additional computing resources, (b) continuously improving and maintaining the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users, © attracting new users from industry as well as science and providing them with high level of training and support they need.

The EGEE Grid will be built on the EU Research Network GEANT and exploit Grid expertise generated by many EU, national and international Grid projects to date. Implementation and certification of the performance of the evolving infrastructure initially will be guided by two pilot application domains. They are LHC (Large Hadron Collaider) based physics experiments and Biomedical Grids.

EGEE is a two-year project conceived as part of a four-year programme. Being one of the largest of its kind, it consists of over 70 contractors incorporated in 12 partner federations from the most of the Europe, USA and Russia.