SweGrid - The Swedish GRID initiative
Swegrid is a Swedish national computational resource, consisting of over 3000 cores spread out over 6 clusters at 6 different sites across Sweden. The sites are connected through the high-performance GigaSunet network.
Together the computers form what is known as a computational grid, where submitted computation jobs are automatically and transparently started at the most suitable resource, irrespective of where it is located geographically and organizationally.
The hardware in the Swegrid project is financed by a donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation. Operational costs and personnel for support and maintenance are funded by the Swedish research council (VR) via SNIC. VR is also funding research targeted toward grid within the framework of Swegrid. SNIC is coordinator of Swegrid operation.
One third of the Swegrid capacity is reserved for high energy physics computation, with the remaining capacity to be granted on a peer-review basis to researchers in different disciplines by the Swedish National Allocations Committee (SNAC).
The 1st Regular PRACE call has been published
