CSC is a collaboration partner in several pan-European collaboration projects.
CSC participates in the following international collaboration projects:
- APARSEN The APARSEN Network of Excellence project gathers 31 partners (librarians, publishers, service providers, private companies, etc.) and was funded to create a shared vision and framework for a sustainable digital information infrastructure providing permanent access to digitally encoded information.
- CLARIN project (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) aims to create a pan-European infrastructure for linguists, making language resources and technology available and readily useable and to offer counselling and training to their users.
- DEISA2 (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) Consortium continues to support and further develop the distributed high performance computing infrastructure and its services, funded for three years as of May 2008. Activities and services relevant for Applications Enabling, Operation, and Technologies are continued and further enhanced, as these are indispensable for the effective support of computational sciences in the HPC (High Performance Computing) area. DEISA2 project is part of EU's 7th Framework Programme.
- The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE3) project is the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure in the world, available to the European and global research community.
- The EGI (European Grid Initiative) is an organisation established in 2010 to coordinate the European Grid Infrastructure. It was preceded by EGI Design Study project. The EGI headquarters are located in Amsterdam.
- e-Infranet is a European network for co-ordination of policies and programmes on e-Infrastructures. It focuses on specific areas such as cloud computing, green computing, and openness, and has nine partners, most of them being national ministries or research council. CSC was mandated by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture to represent Finland in this project
- The e-IRGSP3 (e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme 3)
provides a comprehensive support framework for the work of the e- Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG), an inter-governmental policy organization. The e-IRG develops national and Pan-European policies governing the use of electronic infrastructures for e- Science. The e-IRGSP3 project started on 1st December 2010 and continues until December 2013. - ELIXIR (European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological
Information) project is led by EMBL-EBI and involves 32 partners from
13 countries, including CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science. The consortium ultimately aims to establish a sustainably funded infrastructure for biological information in Europe, to support innovation in life science research, knowledge generation and its translation to medicine, the environment, the bio-industries and society. - EMBRACE (European Model for Bioinformatics Research And Community Education) is a Network of Excellence funded by the Sixth EU Framework Programme, aiming to advance European bioinformatics services through Web services and grid technologies.
- EPIC (European Persistent Identifier Consortium) consists of GWDG - the computing centre of the Max-Planck Society and the University of Göttingen, The Dutch National High Performance Computing and e-Science Support Center SARA and CSC - IT Center for Science and specialises in producing Persistent Identifiers. To learn more about Uniform Resource Name (URN) read more at The National Library of Finland.
- GÉANT3 is a pan-European research and education network.
- HPC-Europa2’s EC-funded Transnational Access programme offers European-based computational scientists the opportunity to travel to another country to work in collaboration with researchers in a similar field, while having access to some of the most powerful computers in Europe. CSC is a partner in the HPC-Europa2 project (Pan-European Research Infrastructure on High Performance Computing) which offers the opportunity for Finnish universities to host European visiting researchers while CSC makes its supercomputers and other support available to visitors.
- Ice2sea is a collaborative research programme involving partners from 13 countries. The project focuses specifically on the contribution to sea-level rise that will arise from loss of continental glaciers and ice sheets and which give rise to largest part of the uncertainty in the projections. The Finnish participant of ice2sea programme is CSC.
- Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF) coordinates the Grid collaboration at the Nordic level.
- The ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange) project gathers five major European actors in the field of data (CERN, APA, STFC, HA, and CSC) and was funded to identify, collate, interpret and deliver evidence of emerging best practices in sharing, re-using, preserving and citing data, the drivers for these changes and barriers impeding progress.
- PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC (High Performance
Computing) service, consisting of three to five tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU's 7th Framework Programme.
