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Estonia

Statistics

Population: 1.3 million
GDP/capita: € 10,700

Supercomputing facilities for the academia

National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn: Beowulf cluster (16 Athlon/2200)
University of Tartu: Beowulf cluster (16 P4/2600), Beowulf cluster (12 Opteron/1600), Beowulf cluster (19 P4/2400)

National academic network

The Ministry for Culture and Education established in 1993 the EENet (Estonian educational and research network) organisation to manage and co-ordinate academic networking. This Ministry funds the use of EENet. The budget for 2004 is € 0.76 million.

The backbone of EENet consists of a 1 Gbps link between Tallin and Tartu and 2, 4, 8 and 11 Mbps connections to 16 other cities. International connectivity is provided by a 622 Mbps link to Stockholm (GÉANT).

http://www.eenet.ee

National GRIDs

In 2004 the ‘Estonian GRID’ project (Eesti GRID) started. Today 9 clusters with a total of 125 processors have joined this grid.

http://grid.eenet.ee/en/

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