The first project phase was launched from scratch at the end of 2005. The pioneers — Oļģerts Belmanis, Lauris Cikovskis and Jānis Kūliņš, later accompanied by Artis Šteinbergs and Zigmārs Strods — were led by the professor Ilmārs Slaidiņš. The team started out studying and researching the Grid technologies which were little-known at that time, later the first servers were purchased resulting in a cluster of five computing nodes. As the number of servers grew, central Grid services and 16 cores for computation were offered, as well as 1 TB of Grid data storage at the end of the first project phase.

The second project phase of BalticGrid-II started in May 2008. This time, focus was on attracting users and transferring their research applications to Grid. Good cooperation was established with researchers from RTU and the Institute of Organic Synthesis that also used our technical support. Users from other Baltic States used our computing services, similar to Latvian users employing resources of other universities. The project resulted in two clusters with 48 cores in total.