Czech Republic
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| NGI Full Name: | METACentrum |
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| URL: | http://meta.cesnet.cz |
METACentrum is a funded national project which covers the majority of activities concerning Grids, super-, cluster- and grid computing and/or high performance computing in general in the Czech republic. The aim of the METACentrum project is maintaining the current computational resources and broadening the available computational capacity of the largest academic centers in the Czech republic in the future.
METACentrum was informally established in 1998, as part of CESNET, z.s.p.o. - the National Czech Academic Network provider. The public universities and the Academy of Science are its founding and funding members.
Plans are underway to establish in 2007 a project fully dedicated to the support of the National Grid Infrastructure. The project will probably be under the Ministry of Education scientific programs.
| Number of users with valid Grid Certificate: | around 150 |
| Number of sites (Resource Centres): | 5 |
| Number of CPUs: | ~1000 CPUs in clusters, 100+ other (SGI, ...) |
| Total storage (in TB): | ~50TB directly online + 0,4 PT tape |
[edit] EGI Functions: Current Rating
[edit] Functions proposed in survey of late 2006
| Coordination of infrastructure operations | Very Important |
| Testing, certification and validation service including middleware | Quite Important |
| Managed resource centers to provide initial resources for new user communities | Quite Important |
| Coordination of user and application support | Quite Important |
| Coordination of dissemination and training efforts | No Opinion |
| Representation of European Grid efforts on standards bodies | No Opinion |
| Representation of European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents | No Opinion |
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[edit] Other EGI Functions
Coordination not only in operation, but also in cross country efforts (e.g. end to end grids between specific scientific groups). Comments...
