Consortium
The EESI project consortium has been designed to represent a cross-section of European and international key actors in the field of HPC. The partnership has a deep and broad expertise in all the technological and strategic aspects related to HPC.
The consortium is composed of:
- 2 contractual partners: TOTAL & PRACE
- 29 organizations which act as chairs and vice chairs of Work Packages and tasks
- Around 100 experts who contribute through the project tasks and working groups.
SARA is the National Supercomputing and e-Science Support Center in the Netherlands. Among SARA's customers are all of the Dutch Universities, a number of large research, educational and government institutions, and the business community. The mission of SARA is to support research in the Netherlands by the development and provision of advanced ICT infrastructure, services and expertise.
SARA provides expertise and services in the areas of High Performance Computing, e-Science & Cloud Services, Data Services, Network support, and Visualisation.
SARA hosts the large national infrastructure services, i.e. the Dutch national Supercomputer service (IBM Power6 575-hydrocluster, 65 TF/s), the National Compute Cluster (Dell Infiniband cluster, >4500 Intel cores, 20 TF/s), large data storage facilities and services (online capacity over 5 PB, tape capacity over 20 PB) and all important national grid services (> 5000 cores). This includes also a large part of the BiG Grid infrastructure (the Dutch e-Science grid) that is a Tier-1 site for CERN LCG.
Personnel involved in EESI
Dr. Axel Berg, as deputy director and manager Operations, Support and Development and Dr. Peter Michielse as deputy director and officer strategy, policies and international collaborations.
