Netherlands National Computing Facilities foundation

PRACE granted over 4.3 Million Core Hours to PRACE Prototype Systems; one of the systems is the NCF/SARA IBM Power 6

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

Most of the information on this site is available in Dutch only. However, the most important information should be available in English also. If you find you get stuck in the website please let us know. NCF values your opion and remarks of this site : reactions and comments on how to improve are welcomed.

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