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The EGEE Grid last week reached 200 sites, spread across nearly 50 countries. According to the gstat monitoring tool (its Web site), 201 sites are now certified on the production Grid - 21 of which are in the UK. Overall, EGEE currently has around 30,000 CPUs at its certified sites. Sites come and go on the Grid, so the 200th site can't be definitively identified. But the sites that were certified this week were: - National TaiChung University in Taiwan (TW-NTCU-HPC-01). - Glasgow's new cluster, UKI-SCOTGRID-GLASGOW. This was certified by Jeremy Coles, GridPP Production Manager, on Tuesday (17:50). (More details to come in a news item next week) - Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS, in Russia (ru-Chernogolovka-IPCP-LCG2) certified on Wednesday. - Ben Gurion University in Israel (IL-BGU) certified on Thursday. Gstat monitors the status of resources published to the BDII. For a site to be certified, it needs to follow the following steps: - Contact the relevant ROC and ask for quality testing of the site installation. - Request the CIC-on-duty to perform further acceptance tests, before including the new site in the Information System. Successful acceptance in the Information System will make the site appear in the relevant configuration file1. - ROC changes site status in the GOC database to 'certified'. - From now on the site will show on the daily site functional test report.