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Hungary

Statistics

Population: 10.0 million
GDP/capita: € 12,100

Policy

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Culture and Education, the National Committee of Technological Development and the Hungarian Scientific Research have established a National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIFI) Programme. This programme is the main financer of the Hungarian Academic and Research Network, HUNGARNET. The 2004 budget for this network is € 7.9 million.

Supercomputing facilities for the academia

BUTE: Compaq AlphaServer/16
ELTE: Compaq AlphaServer/16
MTA SZTAKI: Beowulf cluster (56 PIII/500)
NIIFI: 2 x Sun Fire15K/72, Beowulf cluster (64 PIII/1050)

National academic network

HUNGARNET uses the national HBONE network with a backbone of 10 Gbps to connect 700 higher education institutes, R&D organisations and libraries throughout the whole country at speeds of 34 Mbps up to 1 Gbps. International connectivity is 10 Gbps to GÉANT.

http://www.hungarnet.hu

National GRIDs

In July 2003 a national grid infrastructure called ClusterGrid became available to the Hungarian research community. The 31 clusters that compose the grid are installed at 21 institutes and amount a total of 1100 nodes. These systems are used for their regular purposes during daytime and are offered to ClusterGrid during the nights and weekends.

http://www.clustergrid.iif.hu

List of abbreviations

BUTE Budapest University of Technology and Economics
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
NIIFI Office for National Information and Infrastructure Development
SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institution, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Contacts and Addresses

Peter Kacsuk
MTA SZTAKI
PO Box 63
H-1518 Budapest
email: kacsuk@sztaki.hu

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