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[Day Permalink] Thursday, March 27, 2003

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Academic Supercomputing in Europe is a nice site with good descriptions of how supercomputing is arranged in different European countries. Here are direct links to selected countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, and UK.

Here is the policy for Finland: "Supercomputing policy is made by a partnership of the academic community (represented by the Ministry of Education (MoE)) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). Funding of the national supercomputer facilities is provided mainly through these two organisations. [...] Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) is the organisation responsible for national supercomputing and networking services and support. It is a non-profit company, whose shareholder is MoE. The Executive Board of CSC has representatives from academia, MoE, FMI and the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), an important customer of CSC. A Scientific Advisory Board, with representatives from all major universities as well as from various academic disciplines, supervises academic supercomputing and networking and sets the framework for advancing computational sciences in Finland."