Poland
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| NGI Full Name: | PL-Grid |
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| URL: | http://www.plgrid.pl |
PL-Grid is a national programme to be funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It was formally established on November 9 2006, with an agreement signed by the 5 largest Polish High Performance Computing and Networking Centres:
- CYFRONET AGH Academic Computer Centre, Krakow (chair);
- ICM UW Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational MOdelling, Warsaw University;
- PSNC Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Centre;
- WCSS Wrocław Centre for Networking and Supercomputing of the Wrocław University of Technology;
- Gdansk Academic Computer Centre TASK.
| Number of users with valid Grid Certificate: | 400+ |
| Number of sites (Resource Centres): | 5 biggest HPC centres |
| Number of CPUs: | 2000+ |
| Total storage (in TB): | 800+ |
[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 | Not Important |
| Coordination of user and application support | Quite Important |
| Coordination of dissemination and training efforts | Quite Important |
| Representation of European Grid efforts on standards bodies | Quite Important |
| Representation of European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents | Very Important |
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