CESNET

The Czech National Grid Infrastructure is operated by MetaCentrum, CESNET is the department responsible for coordinating and managing grid activities in the Czech Republic on behalf of the Czech NGI. Long-term goal of the MetaCentrum project is operation and coordination of distributed computing and data storage infrastructure in the Czech Republic as a dynamic network of resources across different locations and administrative domains, as a part of the pan-European infrastructure built in the framework of the EGI project, accompanied by an appropriate support environment and continual expansion of available computational capacities. The main aim of the project is the constitution of a virtual computer that allows effective utilization of installed facilities and solving tasks whose memory and/or CPU requirements exceeds possibility of individual single computing centers. MetaCentrum structure is flexible enough, any academic subject within the Czech Republic is able to fully integrate any computing capacities in current MetaCentrum infrastructure getting significant higher computing power for research.

One of the purposes of MetaCentrum is to establish a fully-fledged National Grid Initiative (NGI) in the Czech Republic with connection to the international environment. MetaCentrum officially represent the interests of the national Grid community towards other national and international bodies. Ultimately, MetaCentrum aims to provide computational power that would not have been possible without a Grid infrastructure.