The Greek Research and Technology Network or GRNET ( el, Εθνικό Δίκτυο Υποδομών Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας, ΕΔΥΤΕ) is the

national research and education network A national research and education network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country. It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backb ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

. GRNET S.A. gives internet connectivity, e-infrastructure and other services to the Greek Educational, Academic and Research community. Additionally, GRNET makes digital applications. It also provides services to the following sectors: Education, Research, Health, Culture. GRNET supports all Universities, Technological Education Institutes, Research Centers and over 9,500 schools. GRNET head office is located in

Athens, Greece Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

E-Infrastructures and Innovative Services

GRNET backbone interconnects more than 100 institutions including all universities and technological institutions, research centers, public hospitals, museums and libraries, as well as the Greek School Network. GRNET is present in global networking for research and education, representing Greece in

GÉANT GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community. It interconnects national research and education networks (NRENs) across Europe, enabling collaboration on projects ranging from biological science, to earth obser ...

Large Scale Computing Services for the Researchers (Cloud Computing)

GRNET offers Cloud Computing services that are available via the Infrastructure as a Service model, under the brand name “~okeanos” to promote academic, educational and research aims. These services are hosted on GRNET's own infrastructure and fall into the category of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). More specifically, the following cloud services are provided: * ~okeanos: Cloud Service with end users in the academic and research community powered by Synnefo, an IaaS cloud computing project. * ViMa: Virtual Private Server (VPS) Service provided to GRNET peers for hosting of services. “~Okeanos” service provides academic users the ability to create a multi-layer virtual infrastructure and instantiate virtual computing machines, local networks, and a storage space inside the virtual machine. The Cloud Computing infrastructure and services of GRNET have been made available to the pan-European R&E community via the “okeanos-global” service.

Hellenic High Performance Computing Infrastructure

GRNET �
ARIS
�� national high-performance computing infrastructure provides scientists with additional computational power, storage space and software (pre-installed compilers, scientific libraries and popular scientific application suites) to assist the development and execution of scientific applications.
ARIS System information (in Greek) The system went into pilot operational phase in June 2015 and it is available for research-related use to all researchers and scientists across Greek universities, technological institutions and research centers.

GR-IX

GRNET operates the

Greek Internet Exchange The Greek Internet Exchange (GR-IX) is an Internet exchange point located in Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece. It was founded in 2009 in order to replace the Athens Internet Exchange as the principal Internet Exchange Point in Greece, which was ...

(GR-IX). GR-IX interconnects

Internet Service Providers An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privatel ...

, content providers and other entities and facilitates the exchange of IP traffic among them.

International activities

GRNET participates in international projects funded by the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

. It also participates in regional and European projects which aim at bridging the digital divide between countries of

South-East Europe Southeast Europe or Southeastern Europe (SEE) is a geographical subregion of Europe, consisting primarily of the Balkans. Sovereign states and territories that are included in the region are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia (al ...

and the rest of Europe, such a
SEEREN
an
SEEFIRE
projects.

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