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The Open Call for Letters of Interest for Collaboration is now closed
2018-06-28
NeIC is preparing a new five-year strategic plan for 2020-2025. In relation to this, NeIC gathered information throughout 2018 about the directions and goals for e-infrastructure in the Nordic region. The deadline was the 15th of May.
read more »How do you create a NeIC identity?
2018-05-09
To be able to answer the question “How do you create a NeIC identity” it is important to identify what the NeIC identity actually is. What does it mean to be a member of NeIC, and how does the NeIC identity either complement or clash with local organisational identities?
read more »How do we build a Nordic-wide community of scientific software developers, application experts and other e-science experts?
2018-05-04
This blog post is the result of the speed blogging session during NeIC All Hands Meeting 2018, where participants were given one hour to collaboratively write an opinion piece on various subject matters.
read more »Two new members joining the NeIC Executive Team
2018-04-30
During May this year we will welcome two new members to the NeIC Executive Team, increasing our capacity in the areas of eScience, strategy and funding.
read more »The Nordic Language Processing Laboratory
2018-04-16
The Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) is a Nordic collaborative research project under the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC). The project is seeking to train the next generation of scientists to work on the language technology on which services such as Google Translate and Siri (Apple’s speech-recognition programme) are based.
read more »NeIC position paper on Nordic Open Science Collaboration
2018-03-23
NeIC has written a position paper on what a Nordic Open Science Cloud could look like, and how NeIC could play a role in this. If you ar interested in reading about NeIC's position on EOSC and NOSC, please have a look here.
read more »NeIC calls for Letters of Interest for Collaboration and Requests for Information
2018-03-22
NeIC will be gathering information throughout 2018 about the directions and goals for e-infrastructure in the Nordic region. We are inviting input and suggestions from the Nordic research and e-infrastructure communities in two ways, one for information that will be used by NeIC in the short term (2-3 years) and one for information that will be useful in the longer term (>5 years).
read more »Scallop - A Tryggve use case on analysing genetic and medical data
2018-03-16
Imagine that you had access to genetic and medical data from thousands of patients with various medical backgrounds, but you lacked an adequate way to work with the data across borders. Read about Tryggve helped the Scallop consortium over these challenges.
read more »All Hands Meeting 2018
2018-02-05
Last week saw the completion of another successful AHM meeting for NeIC.
read more »Nordic High Performance Computing & Applications Workshop
2018-01-26
In August 2017, the University of Iceland held a successful Nordic High Performance Computing & Applications Workshop in Reykjavík with participants from across the Nordics.
read more »Tryggve2 kick-off meeting building sensitive data infrastructure for research
2017-11-17
The second term of Nordic Tryggve collaboration on cross-border services for sensitive biomedical research data – Tryggve2 – was officially launched in Stockholm on 7–8 November, 2017.
read more »Andreas Jaunsen New Data Management Specialist
2017-10-23
NeIC has appointed Andreas Jaunsen to the role of Data Management Specialist.
read more »NeIC established MoU with ETAIS
2017-10-09
We are thrilled to announce that NeIC has officially established a memorandum of understanding with The Estonian Scientific Computing Infrastructure (ETAIS)
read more »Open call for course mobility and travel grants now available
2017-09-15
You can now apply for travel grants offered by NeIC's Ratatosk Travel Mobility Enhancement Programme as well as submit a proposal to the Open Call on Course Mobility.
read more »Chandan Basu new Project Manager for Earth System Modelling project
2017-08-30
NeIC has engaged Chandan Basu as project manager for NICEST, its project on Earth System Modelling. This project will strengthen the Nordic ESM community by efficiently using various e-infrastructures through competence building, and sharing and exchanging knowledge.
read more »NeIC awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway
2017-08-22
NeIC, together with Sigma2, is one of 19 projects (out of 92 applicants) who have been invited to contract negotiations with the Research Council of Norway."
read more »NeIC Dellingr Project opens the resource-sharing pilot
2017-07-11
Through Dellingr NeIC will work with the national e-infrastructure providers to define a functional framework for resource sharing that will recognize and build upon the unique strengths of each provider to advance research in each of the respective countries and within the Nordic region overall.
read more »NeIC welcomes its new Chair
2017-07-03
Dr Steen Pedersen, Director of DeIC, appointed as Chair of NeIC Board will serve s two-year term starting 15th June 2017, with Gunnar Bøe, Managing Director of UNINETT Sigma2, elected as chair-in-elect.
read more »NeIC reveals its new Human Resource policy
2017-07-01
Part of NeIC’s co-funding and collaboration strategy is to bring together highly competent staff from the local eInfrastructure providers in the Nordic countries to tackle eInfrastructure challenges beyond what is currently possible on individual national scales. In keeping with the NeIC2020 strategy implementation plan, NeIC has achieved one of its milestones and drawn up a human resource policy to facilitate this.
read more »Saving lives with a secure system for sharing biomedical data
2017-06-27
Before: Biomedical researchers often exchanged sensitive data about people’s health between institutions or across borders via poorly protected means such as USB drives or CDs sent via registered mail. Now: Researchers can exchange data at great speed – and save more lives – via a secure Nordic data sharing service.
read more »Building a cloud for Nordic researchers
2017-06-26
Researchers across the Nordic region are starting to enjoy a new “elastic” cloud computing infrastructure from where they can collaborate and share systems and resources. The Glenna project has already supported the development of both a Norwegian and a Danish national cloud service into true Nordic services, and more services are in the pipeline.
read more »NeIC 2017: Crossing boundaries - changing the world
2017-06-14
More than 200 technical experts, researchers, and decision-makers in computing and storage joined forces at the NeIC 2017 conference. The event took place in Umeå, Sweden from 29 May – 1 June and included both workshops and conference sessions with high-profile speakers from academia and industry.
read more »New Project Management positions open within Earth System Modelling and Biodiversity
2017-05-09
NeIC is looking for one or two Project Managers for our Biodiversity Informatics and Earth System Modelling projects that will work to facilitate and intensify collaboration on e-infrastructure in these fields.
read more »John White new Dellingr Project Manager
2017-05-08
Through Dellingr NeIC will work with the national e-infrastructure providers to define a functional framework for resource sharing that will recognize and build upon the unique strengths of each provider to advance research in each of the respective countries and within the Nordic region overall.
read more »The most successful distributed environment I’ve encountered
2017-05-07
“The Nordic eInfrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) has developed the most successful distributed environment I’ve ever worked in,” states Jon Kerr Nilsen of the University Center for Information Technology (USIT) at the University of Oslo. He is so pleased with the NeIC system that he intends to replicate it to a large degree when designing a High Performance Computing operations environment between four Norwegian universities.
read more »Tryggve2 increases Nordic efforts within e-Infrastructure for sensitive data
2017-04-26
At its meeting on 16 March, the NeIC Board agreed to extend the Tryggve collaboration into a new three-year project – Tryggve2. The plan is to launch Tryggve2 on 21 October 2017, directly following the current project period.
read more »The smartest storage for the world’s largest data volumes
2017-04-07
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest, most complex experimental facility, generating the world’s largest data volumes. This calls for extremely smart data handling and storage solutions, and one of the smartest is distributed between four Nordic countries.
read more »Studying dark matter
2017-04-07
“The Nordic Data Grid Facility works so well that it has become one of the most efficient of all the Tier 1 facilities,” says Professor Farid Ould-Sadaa at the University of Oslo. He analyses data from CERN and the Large Hadron Collider in a quest to solve one of the largest remaining mysteries in science: the nature of dark matter.
read more »Better software leads to better science
2017-03-15
Software and computing skills have become essential in most fields of research, but researchers are often struggling with software that is unnecessarily complex and therefore not sustainable. But help is at hand, in the shape of workshops that promote better software development practices in scientific communities across the Nordic countries.
read more »New report: Ethical review, data protection and biomedical research in the Nordic countries – a legal perspective
2017-03-08
The latest NordForsk Policy Paper gives an overview of the existing legislation in the Nordic countries regarding the collection and re-use of health-related personal data in medical research.
read more »#NeIC2017 now open for registration
2017-02-07
Building on the enthusiasm from the first two Nordic e-Infrastructure Conferences in 2013 and 2015, we are happy to announce the next NeIC Conference, to be hosted by NeIC and SNIC at the Umeå Folkets Hus.
read more »Tomasz Malkiewicz new member of the NeIC Executive Management team
2017-01-09
Tomasz will be part of the NeIC Executive Team, where he will help implement strategy, contribute to future strategy development, coordinate NeIC’s activities on resource sharing and sensitive data collaboration, and initiate new technical projects.
read more »Kine Nordstokkå new NeIC coordinator
2017-01-02
Kine will work at the NeIC secretariat in Oslo to coordinate and support the growing portfolio of projects and NeIC team across the Nordic region.
read more »Tryggve takes care of sensitive data
2016-12-13
Researchers seeking to share biomedical data between Nordic countries face both technical and legal hurdles. The joint Nordic project Tryggve offers services that address these challenges by allowing researchers to process and share data securely across national borders.
read more »Genetics and environment across borders
2016-12-13
What are the roles played by environmental and genetic factors in the development of schizophrenia? This question is being examined by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in five different countries. The Tryggve secure IT-based system has been vital in enabling researchers to share data across borders.
read more »The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is seeking a Training Programme Manager
2016-11-29
NeIC is looking for a Training Programme Manager to develop and facilitate the implementation of a Nordic training programme for technical staff in the Nordic e-infrastructure community.
read more »The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is seeking Resource Sharing Project Manager
2016-11-29
NeIC is looking for a Project Manager to implement a main component of the NeIC strategy. The envisioned outcome of the resource sharing project is a set of e-infrastructure policies, common processes and associated framework that forms a Nordic platform for providing services to share resources in an effective and consistent manner.
read more »The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is seeking NeIC Storage Specialist
2016-09-13
NeIC is looking for a Storage Specialist to strengthen the Nordic Tier-1 team. As member of a dynamic virtual team you will have a variety of challenging tasks and involve extensive contact with research groups and specialist communities in the Nordic countries and internationally.
read more »The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is seeking NeIC Coordinators and Project Managers
2016-08-24
NeIC is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs to foster the Nordic e-infrastructure community. We are aiming to reinvigorate and diversify our team and we encourage both current NeIC staff and new candidates to apply.
read more »Nordic model offers unique set of competencies in large data set analysis
2016-07-05
Although it might be more cost-effective to consolidate six Nordic computing centres into one, the Nordic distributed model also provides a unique set of competencies, new evaluation report concludes
read more »Joint Nordic training: Improve your e-Skills
2016-05-25
To make the most of our e-infrastructure resources in the Nordic countries, NeIC has launched a coordinated Nordic calendar indicating when and where you can find events to improve your skills. An easy and simple tool to use.
read more »Glenna F2F meeting held in Kastrup
2016-03-22
During this year's Glenna F2F meeting demonstrations and hands-on tutorials of Cloud services available so far were held.
read more »Dates announced for the NeIC 2017 Conference
2016-01-27
Save the date: The next NeIC conference will be held in Umeå on 29 May – 1 June 2017.
read more »A Nordic accounting system for Grid & HPC systems
2016-01-20
The NeIC project SGAS is an accounting system for Grid and HPC systems that began as part of the Swedish Grid project SweGrid. The project was completed 30 September 2015
read more »Enhancing eInfrastructures for wild animal research
2016-01-03
A Biotelemetry Sensor Data Workshop was held in Uppsala in November 2015 as part of the effort to enhance Nordic collaboration on how to handle data from sensors mounted on wild animals.
read more »Intensifying collaboration on the EISCAT_3D eInfrastructure
2015-11-23
On 5 November 2015, the NeIC EISCAT_3D Support (E3DS) project hosted a meeting in Stockholm, where stakeholders from the Nordic countries gathered to update one another on the status of EISCAT_3D, the progress of the E3DS project and the eInfrastructure roadmaps of providers of network, storage and computing resources.
read more »How do Nordic researchers use supercomputing resources?
2015-09-28
In the report “Cognitus, a Science Case for High Performance Computing in the Nordic Region”, Dr Rob Pennington has analyzed the use of high performance computing facilities and resources among Nordic researchers. He found that the research in the Nordic region that depends on computational capabilities is “clearly internationally competitive.”
read more »New ideas to develop e-infrastructure for Nordic biodiversity
2015-08-31
On 26/27 August 2015, biodiversity researchers and service developers gathered in Oslo to present scientific use cases and to discuss opportunities for Nordic collaboration on advancing e-Infrastructure and its use beyond what is possible at the national level.
read more »New NeIC board appointed
2015-06-16
1 June 2015 the NordForsk board appointed a new NeIC board.
read more »Josep Flix engaged as WLCG specialist
2015-05-29
Josep Flix, Port d’Informaciò Cientifica (PIC) is engaged as external consultant/e-infrastructure specialist on WLCG Operations.
read more »Large turnout for NeIC 2015
2015-05-22
Building on the success of the inaugural conference in 2013, the 2015 version of the Nordic e-Infrastructure Conference attracted more than 180 scientists, experts, and decision makers.
read more »New report on high performance computing in the Nordics
2015-05-08
Nordic researchers are becoming increasingly dependent on digital research infrastructure.
read more »Nordic-Baltic e-Infrastructure collaboration on the agenda
2015-04-29
NeIC2015 conference is soon to begin - Frank Hanssen from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research will talk on collaboration within biodiversity informatics.
read more »13 days to go – registration open until Sunday 26 April
2015-04-22
NeIC2015 conference – Nordic Collaboration for Global Excellence is coming up soon! Nearly 200 participants have registered, and registration is open until Sunday 26 April.
read more »NeIC is looking for WLCG specialist
2015-03-31
We have an open position for an external consultant/e-infrastructure specialist on WLCG Operations. Apply before 3 May 2015.
read more »All Hands Meeting 2015
2015-02-03
The first NeIC All Hands Meeting gathered 47 people at Skeikampen, 27.-30. January.
read more »John White new NeIC project manager for the Supporting EISCAT_3D-project
2015-01-25
NeIC has hired Geneva-based physicist John White to support EISCAT_3D in meeting its e-Infrastructure and e-Science needs.
read more »Registration now open: NeIC2015 conference
2015-01-07
NeIC will 5-8 May 2015 host the second conference on e-infrastructure: Nordic Collaboration for Global Excellence.
read more »Glenna Project has started: Let’s create a Nordic cloud
2014-11-28
The Glenna project was launched 3 November in Arlanda, Stockholm. Project Manager Dan Still invited a total of 13 participants from the five Nordic countries to attend the kick-off meeting.
read more »Opening in the clouds
2014-11-26
Meet Dan Still. He is the newest member of the NeIC team and is responsible for the Glenna project. Glenna is Icelandic for “opening in the clouds” - a poetic way to designate the coming Nordic Cloud.
read more »The Tryggve project is underway
2014-11-05
On 21 and 22 October 2014, project leader Antti Pursula hosted the kick-off conference for the Tryggve project at the Technical University of Denmark.
read more »Thomas Röblitz new Area Coordinator for Environmental Sciences
2014-10-30
Thomas Röblitz is located at the University of Oslo, University Center for Information Technology (USIT), and holds a 80% position at NeIC. He was educated at Humboldt University in Berlin, and holds a PhD in Computer Science focusing on Grid Resource management. Thomas has extensive experience in researching, designing, developing and operating distributed e-Infrastructures for scientists in Norway, the Nordics and Europe. He is currently coordinating USIT's HPC compute area which serves local, national and internation scientists from various desciplines.
read more »NeIC 2020 co-funding proposal
2014-10-28
In 2013, the research funding agencies and NordForsk signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that provides the framework for 10 more years of e-Infrastructure collaboration under the NeIC umbrella. Furthermore, the funding agencies requested a funding plan for 2016-2020.
read more »Extended deadline: Project manager/e-infrastructure specialist for EISCAT_3D support
2014-10-20
EISCAT_3D is an environmental research infrastructure on the European ESFRI roadmap, and NeIC is seeking a project manager/e-infrastructure specialist who can support the EISCAT_3D project in dealing with e-infrastructure challenges.
read more »Engaged discussions at the Nordic accounting workshop 2014 in Uppsala
2014-10-16
Lively discussions on hot topics as energy-, GPU/Accelerator- and Cloud accounting have been held at this year's Nordic accounting workshop.
read more »Let it grow
2014-09-25
On 23–25 September 2014 NORDUnet hosted its 28th NORDUnet Conference in Uppsala, bringing together networking and cloud computing experts and users. NeIC’s Director Gudmund Høst presented the NeIC business model, focusing on the human factor. And precisely in the spirit of enhancing human relations between their organisations, NeIC and NORDUnet met for a working lunch.
read more »Small files – Big impact: B2Share Nordic
2014-09-24
The need for storing scientific data grows rapidly along with the technological development. The need to store in the easiest and most accessible way grows too. B2Share is an answer to this need.
read more »Rob Pennington joins the NeIC team
2014-09-19
NCSA deputy director Rob Pennington has joined the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration team as a special advisor from Sept. 15. While at NeIC, Rob will lead efforts to develop the Nordic scientific case for large-scale high-performance computing.
read more »NOK 500 000 in NordForsk funding for Nordic software solution
2014-09-10
The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) is an Open Source software solution that facilitates researcher participation in CERN's Large Hadron Collider experiments, among other applications.
read more »Dejan Vitlacil joins the NeIC Executive Team
2014-09-10
Dejan Vitlacil is engaged as temporary NeIC Generic Area Coordinator from October 1st.
read more »NeIC is seeking Nordic WLCG Tier-1 system administrators
2014-08-14
Do you want to be a part of our team? NeIC is seeking two new system administrators to join the virtual NT1 team.
read more »Letters of interest have now been published
2014-06-18
The letters of Interest received by the deadline on May 15 2014 has now been published. NeIC received a total of 10 Letters of Interest, and these will form valuable input to the development of our new funding plan.
read more »NeIC is seeking Area Coordinator
2014-06-17
Do you want to be a part of our team? NeIC is seeking a new area coordinator who can further develop the Generic Area as well as coordinate existing projects.
read more »NeIC seeking input for new funding plan
2014-05-20
The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is drawing up its new five-year funding plan, to start in 2016, and is seeking input through Letters of Interest from the research community on priority areas on which to focus.
read more »NeIC 2015 conference
2014-04-30
The NeIC 2015 Conference is scheduled for 5-8. May 2015 in Espoo, Finland.
read more »A delicate balance between securing and sharing data
2014-04-14
NeIC has recently hired Antti Pursula to coordinate the Tryggve Project – an ambitious project designed to develop simpler, safer, e-infrastructure services for researchers to improve our quality of life. Mr Pursula is employed by CSC in Finland, and will continue to have his office there. In this interview he explains the Tryggve Project.
read more »New NeIC project leader for sensitive BMS data
2014-01-14
Antti Pursula has accepted the position as NeIC project leader for sensitive BMS data. Antti currently works as Project Director for Research Infrastructures at CSC – IT Center for Science. Antti's tentative starting date is February 1st, 2014. The NeIC project on sensitive data for BMS (Tryggve) is a collaboration between NeIC and the ELIXIR-nodes in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
read more »NeIC at the EGI Community Forum 2014
2014-01-07
NeIC will participate at the EGI Community Forum 19 to 23 May 2014.
read more »NeIC is seeking a project leader for sensitive BMS data
2013-10-22
Do you want to be a part of our team? NeIC is seeking a project leader to drive the development of a Nordic platform for sensitive data in bio- and medical sciences.
read more »The NeIC is seeking an SGAS Software Developer
2013-07-11
Do you want to be a part of our team? The NeIC is seeking an expert who can deliver maintenance and development of the SGAS project.
read more »NeIC BMS meeting the 2 July 2013 for secure storage and computation on sensitive data
2013-06-20
Do you work with sensitive data? Your ideas for developing the area are much welcome!
read more »Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference 13-16 May 2013 in Trondheim
2013-06-10
Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration: Lessons, Opportunities and Future Directions
read more »Do we make the best use of PRACE?
2013-06-10
An evaluation of the Nordic use of PRACE will be proposed this August
read more »Discussions on e-Infrastructure in Trondheim
2013-06-10
Questions on e-Infrastructure were discussed on the conference “Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration: Lessons, Opportunities and Future Directions” 15-16 May 2013 in Trondheim. NeIC held the conference in cooperation with CSC - IT Center for Science, DeIC, NORDUnet, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, RHnet, Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and UNINETT Sigma. 160 researchers, policy makers and R&D industry representatives participated.
read more »PDC User’s Pub in Stockholm
2013-05-13
The popular PDC User’s Pub event took place on 17 April 2013 at the PDC Center for High Performance Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
read more »NeIC hires two new coordinators
2013-05-13
The NeIC is pleased to announce that Michaela Barth began in her position as Coordinator for Generic Technologies on 1 March 2013, and Joel Hedlund became Coordinator for Bio- and Medical Sciences Services on 1 April 2013.
read more »10 years of Nordic collaboration on e-infrastructure ensured
2013-05-13
A historical milestone in long-term Nordic collaboration has been reached with the signing of a 10-year agreement on joint development of advanced IT-services for research. The agreement will be presented Wednesday 15 May 2013 in Trondheim where the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) is holding a conference on e-Infrastructure.
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