About NDGF

The NDGF (Nordic DataGrid Facility) is a project inside the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC), providing operations and support for the WLCG Tier1, NDGF-T1.

The motivation for NDGF-T1 is to ensure that the scientists in the Nordic countries contribute to the global LHC research programme and benefit from its results by being able to access and process the experimental data. The scope and size of this challenge is unreachable for the national research groups alone, and requires a strong regional cooperation.

NDGF-T1 itself is essentially a production grid facility that leverages existing national computational and storage resources and grid infrastructures. The overall infrastructure includes several national Tier2 centres.

To qualify for support research groups should form a virtual organization, a VO. The VO provides compute resources for sharing and NDGF operates a grid interface for the sharing of these resources.

NDGF-T1 and the affiliated Tier2 facilities support the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS Virtual Organizations. Together with the Tier-0, CERN, and the other 10 Tier-1s it collects, stores and processes the data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN since its launch, and is committed to continue operations throughout the entire LHC programme in future.

Currently, NDGF resources for computing are accessible through ARC grid-middleware, and the distributed storage is provided by the dCache middleware.