News archive

May 23 2011

New issue of META: 2/2011

A new issue of the META magazine (2/2011) is available. The new issue has focus on several emerging green data centre initiatives in Norway. It also includes a contribution that combines science and art as well as an update of the latest achievements with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. More...

Mar 21 2011

New issue of META: 1/2011

A new issue of the META magazine (1/2011) has been distributed. The new issue contains five contributions from a variety of scientific fields that make use of the national infrastructures for high-performance computing (Notur II) and scientific data (NorStore), and illustrate advances in research using computational science, plus associated societal and/or economic impact. More...

Mar 01 2011

NorduGrid 2011, May 9-12, Sundvolden, Norway

The annual NorduGrid conference will be held 9-12 May, 2011, outside Oslo in Sundvolden Hotel. More...

Aug 07 2008

CERN announces start-up date for LHC

CERN has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This represents a major milestone for European projects like Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE), the Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF) and the whole grid community, as the LHC has been the driving force behind grid innovation. More...

May 01 2008

EGEE III start

Today, the third phase of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE III) started. EGEE-III is the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure in the world and brings together many organisations to produce a reliable and scalable computing resource available to the European and global research community. More...

Feb 01 2008

Application for resources

It is now possible to apply for access to the national compute and storage resources through the grid interface(s) provided by the NorGrid initiative. More...

Jan 21 2008

NorGrid folder

A folder that summarizes the NorGrid initiative is now available (PDF). More...

Jan 18 2008

New grant for NorGrid

The NorGrid initiative has received a grant from the Research Council of Norway that will secure the existence of the initiative until the end of 2010. More...