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.
CSC the Finnish IT Center for Science, is a non-profit limited company owned by the Finnish state, and governed by the Finnish Ministry of Education. It is the largest national center in Northern Europe with a staff exceeding 220 (2011) providing modelling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes, the public sector and industry.
CSC is a multi-disciplinary e-Infrastructure provider supporting a European-wide customer base of thousands of researchers in disciplines such as biosciences, linguistics, chemistry and mathematical modelling. CSC is closely collaborating with Finnish ministries and other national funding agencies in development of e-Infrastructure competence. The Finnish University and Research Network (Funet) is maintained by CSC, where researchers can use the largest collection of scientific software and databases in Finland. CSC is also active in data management and coordinates EUDAT, a project which aims to provide Europe’s scientific and research communities with a sustainable pan-European infrastructure for improved access to scientific data.
CSC has extensive international e-infrastructure collaboration experience and represents Finland in key e-Infrastructure development projects such as EGI, PRACE, e-IRG and ELIXIR.
Personnel involved in EESI
Per Öster.
