Minisymposium Presentation

Digitalization and the green shift are at the top of the EU's research and innovation policy agenda, paralleling the Nordic Council of Ministers' new vision for the Nordic Region to become the world's most sustainable and integrated region by 2030. The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration has been recognized as one of the vehicles for advancing and implementing this vision, through the development projects and activities providing access to LUMI-supercomputer and quantum computers, benefiting from HPC powered AI applications, training the researchers to make full use of software, computing, and data, and acting as a global role model for the e-Infrastructure partnerships. NeIC has two major roles. The first role is to assume operational responsibility for the Nordic distributed Tier-1 facility that is part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) that provides computing and storage for CERN and is used by high energy physicists worldwide. The second is to jointly or collaboratively explore, evaluate, develop and deploy innovative infrastructure services in the area of e-infrastructure and the needs of the national e-infrastructure providers, their users and selected ESFRI projects of joint Nordic interest. This presentation will provide an overview of the NeIC activities, and strategy for fostering collaboration on research e-Infrastructure