CERIT-SC

The national Center CERIT-SC (CERIT Scientific Cloud) offers storage and computing resources and related services, including support for their experimental use. Center also participates in the research and development releated to the flexible e-Infrastructures and it also colaborates in research activities of its partners.

Center CERIT-SC is created through transformation of the Supercomputing Center Brno (SCB), a part of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS, ÚVT in Czech) at Masaryk University (MU).

Center CERIT-SC will ensure that the current available resources of 550 computing cores and 150 TB storage capacity will be enlarged till 2013 to more than 3500 cores and around 3,5 PB storage. All this capacity will be available on an open access principle, both as a part of the National Grid infrastructure and through cloud and other, even experimental interfaces.

Center CERIT-SC is an important part of the national e-Infrastructure, a complex system of mutually interconnected networks, computing, and storage resources and corresponding services for the Czech research community. This role of the Centrum CERIT-SC is explicitly mentioned in the Roadmap of large infrastructures for research, development, and innovations in the Czech Republic. CERIT-SC resources and services offered and its research targets complement two other parts of the approved national e-Infrastructure – CESNET and the supercomputing center IT4Innovations.

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