The Nordic DataGrid Facility

The Nordic Data Grid Facility, NDGF, is a collaboration between the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The motivation for NDGF is to ensure that researchers in the Nordic countries can create and participate in computational challenges of scope and size unreachable for the national research groups alone.

NDGF is a production grid facility that leverages existing, national computational resources and grid infrastructures.

To qualify for support research groups should form a virtual organisation, a VO. The VO provides compute resources for sharing and NDGF operates a grid interface for the sharing of these resources.

Currently, several Nordic resources are accessible with ARC and gLite grid-middleware, some sites with both.

Today, the first operational user of the NDGF is the Nordic High Energy Physics community - the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS Virtual Organizations - through the operation of the Nordic Tier-1, which together with the Tier-0, CERN, and the other 10 Tier-1s collects, stores and processes the data produced by the Large Hadron Collider Experiment at CERN.

Headquarters

NDGF office is located in the Kastrup suburb of Copenhagen, close to the airport (8 minutes walking). NDGF shares offices with NORDUnet, and it says "NORDUnet" on the door. The address is:

Kastruplundgade 22
DK-2770 Kastrup
DENMARK

History

• 2001-2005 NDGF pilot phase
  • You can find the old NDGF pilot web-site here.
• 2006- NDGF operation phase