Conveners
Plenary: Welcome to EGI new members ACOnet (Austria) and University of Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.eu)
Description
Two new NGIs joined the EGI Council in 2022: ACOnet and University of Vilnius. In this session we will meet the Council representatives of our two new participants. We will hear about their national initiatives in support to scientific computing and open science and discuss how the EGI Federation can leverage such initiatives to improve its support to international user communities.
ACOnet represents Austrian organisations that contribute to facilitating access to general & specialised ICT resources at pan-European scale and to provide high-quality research data (e.g. earth observation and climate data sets, etc.) according to the FAIR principles to facilitate interdisciplinary research and education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPMeMnnSg8
Vilnius University is the reference provider for the Lithuanian academic community, with HPC resources amounting to 0.3 PFlops, that are being procured and set up by the end of 2020 across three different university institutes, including the mathematics department, the informatics department and the physics department. Vilnius University is also participating to EuroCC and Lithuania is a funding organization of EuroHPC.
the "Association for the Promotion of an Austrian National Research and Education Network (NREN)" – was founded in 1986 as a consortium of Austrian universities. Today, all Austrian public universities, the majority of universities of applied sciences, and some federal universities participate in the ACONET association. It does act as a strategic user advisory board for ACOnet – the Austrian...
Lithuanian Open Access National Computational Center is located in Vilnius university over two faculties:
Faculty of Physics (Saulėtekis) and Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. The supercomputer “VU
HPC” has over 0.5 Pflops infrastructure while its Sauletekis location achieved 0.3 PFlops real HPLinpack
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