Projects
CERN Tier-2
With funding from the Ministry of Education and Science, a pilot project “Establishment of Federated Computing Centre CERN Tier-2” has been launched in Latvia. The aim of the project is to combine high-performance computing resources of several academic institutions to cooperate with CERN.
RTU and LU cooperate in the project, while technical coordination of the work is ensured by the company «Dati Group». Other institutions will join, such as the National Library of Latvia, which also has powerful computing devices, as well as Estonian and Lithuanian universities, which are part of CERN’s Baltic group.
EUROCC (EURO HPC)
The main task of this EURO HPC project “National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC (EUROCC)” is to set up a network of competence centers in Europe to promote the use of high-performance computing capabilities in higher education, research, public administration, and industry (especially SMEs). Competence centers will gather the competences, experience and computing resources available in all countries of the European Union.
Establishment of an integrated platform for Covid-19 related samples biobank and associated data in Latvia
A project of National research program in the field of Healthcare and public health. It will be implemented by Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre in cooperation with Riga Stradins university, Riga Technical university, and University of Latvia. Riga Technical university will be represented by HPC Center and DITF (Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology).
Open code scientific software initiative
By using the records of license servers stored in the HPC Center, it is intended to identify commercial software tools with the largest number of users and analyze the intensity of use of their specialized modules (toolbox). One of these commercial software tools with high licence cost will be chosen as a substitute – open source software – with low cost.
EOSC Nordic (H2020)
On September 2019, the EOSC Nordic (2019 –2022) will be launched to support the creation of an open science cloud in Europe. The project has twenty-four partners from the Nordic countries and the Baltic states. The countries represented are: Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Netherlands, Germany. Rīgas Technical university will represent Latvia.
BalticGrid-II (FP7)
In May 2008, the BalticGrid-II was launched. This project was a part of the Seventh EU Framework Programme and lasted until 30 April 2010. Aiming at extending and developing the e-Infrastructure of the Baltic States built during the first phase of the BalticGrid, the project included these tasks:
- to include Belarus in the BalticGrid infrastructure;
- to ensure interoperation of the gLite-based infrastructure with UNICORE and ARC Grid resources in the Baltic Region;
- to engage new scientific communities in using Grid resources in nanoscience and engineering, for example;
- to establish new Grid services for linguistic research, Baltic Sea environmental research, data mining tools for modelling.
BalticGrid (FP6)
The goal of the EU FP6 BalticGrid project (2005.-2008) was to extend the European Grid by integrating new partners from the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in the European Grid research community and to foster the development of Grid infrastructure in these countries.
Grid is one of the e-science tools for solving complex scientific problems, which provides access to large computing resources owned by various organisations or even located in different countries. Middleware and fast Internet has allowed combining of these resources in one infrastructure thus resulting in a single high-powered computing machine. Unlike the so-called desktop grid which uses regular computers during the idle time, this grid employs special technology which is usually held by university data centres — mainframes or supercomputers, computing clusters, and data storage facilities.
