CSC contributes in building the Finnish and European grid infrastructures, and participates in projects developing network technologies. We work in close collaboration with European national research networks, and supercomputing centers worldwide. Our software development is mainly based on Linux and the principle of open source.
- 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.
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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.
- The e-IRGSP2 (e-Infrastructures Reflection Group Support Programme
2) 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-IRGSP2 project started on 1st January 2008 and continues until the end of December 2010. The project is coordinated by CSC. - 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.
- 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.
- PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) has created a persistent pan-European HPC (High Performance Computing) service, the PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI), consisting of several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. More information: www.prace-ri.eu PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU's 7th Framework Programme.
