BIG Grid
BiG Grid
Identifier: http://biggrid.nl
Identifier: http://enterthegrid.com/psi/entry/AE-ETG-profile-798
Long Name
BIG Grid
Website
Start Date
2006-08-01
Description
BIG Grid will build and roll out a Dutch nation-wide Grid-based e-Science infrastructure, that is aimed at strengthening the
international position of the Netherlands in many scientific areas. BIG Grid encompasses data storage facilities and data
processing services, enabled by Grid services. The first part of the infrastructure will be operational in September of 2007.
Description
BiG GriD is the Dutch national grid. The project, involving NCF, NIKHEF and NBIC, started end 2006 and its main goal was to
implement a national grid infrastructure for e-Science. At present BiG GriD includes 40 000 SpecInt2006 rate (1600 cores)
and a storage capacity of the order of 1100 TB. These resources are installed at SARA and NIKEF in Amsterdam, and at Philips
Research in Eindhoven. Besides hardware support, BiG Grid also has a team of experts in charge of middleware development and
user support. A tender process for acquisition of new computing clusters and extra storage was initiated in March 2008.
End Date
2010-07-31
Last Update
2007-07-24
Last Update
2008-12-01