Netherlands National Computing Facilities foundation

On the NCF website you will also find additional information on:

Dutch Computing Challenge Project
supercomputers (a.o. massively parallell computers)
Netherlands' policy on supercomputing for technical and scientific research
access to and use of supercomputers
research conducted with supercomputers
international and technological developments

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Dutch researchers should have enough opportunities to use the most advanced computing facilities for the research. The goal of NCF is to make that demand a reality.

Below you will find some of the initiatives of previous years, and some keyresults:

Previous initiatives

Dutch National Supercomputer in 2007
installation of the new national supercomputer, an SGI Altix. December 2003 at SARA
cofinancing the purchase of a Cray SV1e at RUG (2001)
cofinancing the purchase of a IBM SP (Power3/Power4) bij SARA (2000/2001)
installation of TERAS (a 'double' Origin 3800 van SGI, in november 2000 at SARA
cofinancing of an advanced visualisation centre at SARA for national use
aquiring an automatic mass-storage syste for Terabytes on dataslag
financing a database machine for CWI
financing experimental use of the first 34 Mb/s-verbinding (TU Delft-SARA);
participating in the upgrade of the national research netwerk (SURFnet) to SURFnet-3 (2Mb/s) and SURFnet-4 (34 Mb/s)
the NCF Grants Program for parallelisation
NCF was one of the founders of ARCADE, a European academic platform for exchange of information and resources