Sweden
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| NGI Full Name: | Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing SweGrid |
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| Acronym: | SNIC SweGrid |
| URL: | http://www.snic.vr.se/ http://www.swegrid.se/ |
Sweden provided information on two NGIs: the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) and SweGrid. SNIC, under the Swedish Research Council, is a metacentre whose task is to coordinate and develop high end computing capacity for Swedish research. The Swedish Grid infrastructure is in place since September 2003.
| Number of users with valid Grid Certificate: | 75 |
| Number of sites (Resource Centres): | 6 |
| Number of CPUs: | 600 |
| Total storage (in TB): | 370 |
[edit] EGI Functions: Current Rating
[edit] Functions proposed in survey of late 2006
| Coordination of infrastructure operations | Quite Important |
| Testing, certification and validation service including middleware | Quite Important |
| Managed resource centers to provide initial resources for new user communities | Very Important |
| Coordination of user and application support | Not Important |
| Coordination of dissemination and training efforts | Quite 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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[edit] Other EGI Functions
Interoperability work. Resource sharing mechanisms, ranging from accounting to Grid Economy implementation.
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