Ireland
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| NGI Full Name: | Grid-Ireland |
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| URL: | http://www.grid.ie/ |
The aim of Grid-Ireland is to enable communities of users, for example, astrophysicists, geneticists or linguists, to construct virtual organizations above a unique national grid layer.
Grid-Ireland was established in 1999 as an umbrella for Virtual Organisations. It is composed of 18 third level research institute members, managed from Trinity College, Dublin.
| Number of users with valid Grid Certificate: | 50 |
| Number of sites (Resource Centres): | 18 |
| Number of CPUs: | ~800 Grid attached |
| Total storage (in TB): | <2TB |
[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 | Very Important |
| Managed resource centers to provide initial resources for new user communities | Very Important |
| Coordination of user and application support | Very Important |
| Coordination of dissemination and training efforts | Very Important |
| Representation of European Grid efforts on standards bodies | Very Important |
| Representation of European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents | Very Important |
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