GRNET - Greek Research and Technology Network S.A.

www.grnet.gr

GRNET S.A. was created in 1998 under the auspices of the Ministry of Development – General Secretariat of Research and Development in order to provide high quality Internet services to the Greek research and academic community. GRNET S.A. represents Greece in the GEANT pan-European network, which offers high speed and high quality services to the European research and academic community. In computational infrastructures, GRNET was S.A. was responsible for the HellasGrid project (2004 – 2009), which created the first and biggest grid infrastructure in Greece.

GRNET is one of the core participants of EGEE (Enabling Grids for eScience in Europe) where it represents 7 countries of the SEE region, and runs the Regional Operations Centre for South-East Europe. It coordinates SEEGRID- SCI project for Grid user communities’ engagement in SEE; GRNET is a general partner of the PRACE initiative and participated actively in the PRACE project providing contributions to the organizational and governance, dissemination and training, as well as the benchmarking activities of the project.

GRNET will participate and contribute to dissemination and training, HPC ecosystem relations, technical operation, petascaling, support for procurement and future technologies.

Under the HellasGrid National Grid Initiative GRNET has signed cooperation agreements with 24 leading research and academic institutes, which have shown significant experience in the area of high performance computing. AUTH, ICCS, IASA and UPAT are among those cooperating institutes, and will provide their efforts and expertise to the project requirements.