When the network is as fast as the computers internal links, the - chine disintegrates across the net into a set of special purpose app- ances. (George Gilder) We are proud to present to you the proceedings of the European Grid C- ference 2005, held at the Science Park Amsterdam during February 1416. TheaimoftheEuropeanGridConferencewastobethepremiereventon Grid computing in Europe in 2005, focusing on all aspects of Grid computing and bringing together participants from research and industry. EGC 2005 was a follow-up of the Across Grids Conferences held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2003) and in Nicosia, Cyprus (2004). We decided to have three main tracks during this conference: one with pe- reviewed scienti?c contributions, one with presentations from business and - dustry,and one event track with presentations from European and national Grid projects. In order to guarantee high-quality proceedings, we put extensive e?ort into reviewing the scienti?c papers and processing the proceedings. We received over 180 papers from which, after peer review by 23 reviewers each, we selected 70 for oral presentations and52 for posterpresentations duringthescienti?c tracks. In this book you ?nd the ?nal versions of these accepted papers. AftertheconferenceopeningbytheDeanoftheFacultyofScienceoftheU- versity of Amsterdam, Prof. Dr. K.J.F Gaemers, we enjoyed a series of inspiring keynote lectures and two parallel scienti?c tracks over three days.
