Achievements 2016

Pool Competencies:

• Nordic training calendar established [1]. See upcoming events here.
• CodeRefinery project started
• E3DS project now has participation from Sigma2 (NO), CSC (FI) and HPC2N (SE).

Share Resources:

• Demonstrated cross-border use of secure cloud resources for sensitive data processing.
• Demonstrated portability of software portfolios between sensitive data systems
• Cloud services deic.data.dk (DK) and Lifeportal (NO) accessible cross-border
• SNIC-CSC Letter of Intent on cloud collaboration.

Secure Long-Term Funding:

• Agreement between NeIC principal partners on long-term funding and national shares.
• Funding application to the Research Council of Norway.

Strengthen Stakeholder Dialogue:

• Community-driven projects started within biodiversity, earth system modeling and natural language processing.
• EISCAT_3D Support project delivered several recommendations to EISCAT on requirements
• E3DS and EISCAT visited computing facilities CSC/Kajaani; Sigma2/Tromso; HPC2N/Umeå.
• Presentations in international meetings Glenna, Tryggve. News article in NordForsk magazine...
• Cost-assessment of Nordic Tier-1: In-depth engagement during the investigation phase and framework for strategy discussions with stakeholders.