Historical activities

Since 1990:

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