Finnish Grid Infrastructure: Computing Capacity from HP for Science

CSC - IT Center for Science together with nine Finnish universities has formed the Finnish Grid Infrastructure (FGI) consortium, which has in turn purchased a distributed national computing cluster from Hewlett-Packard. This distributed resource is a significant increase in the computing capacity available for Finnish researchers. It forms a computational grid consisting of ten separate installations at the participating universities’ sites. The aggregated theoretical peak capacity would raise the system to the supercomputer TOP 500 list which is used to rank top HPC systems in the world. The purchase was made possible by the Academy of Finland, which granted 1.4 million Euros through its FIRI2010 Infrastructure call for the purpose. Together with the in-kind funding from the universities the total funding is above two million Euros. Read More