The European co-funded project “HellasQCI – Deploying advanced national QCI systems and networks in Greece”, is coordinated by GRNET – Τhe National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, operating under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance. The project consists of 13 consortium partners and, at this stage, we are introducing each of the partners to our #HellasQCI community.

GRNET, is the coordinator of the project, and the first partner to be introduced.
GRNET, operating since 1998, is one of the largest public sector technology companies in Greece. Since August 2019 operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Digital Governance.  GRNET provides networking, cloud computing, HPC, data management services, e-Infrastructures and services to academic and research institutions, to educational bodies at all levels, and to all agencies of the public sector.

GRNET holds a key role as the coordinator of all e-infrastructures in Education and Research. With more than twenty years of specialized experience, GRNET advises the Ministry of Digital Governance on issues relating to the design of advanced information systems, e-Infrastructures and services. It contributes to the country’s Digital Transformation via in-depth analysis, technological studies, standard solutions and specialized know-how, serving hundreds of thousands of users on a daily basis in the strategic fields of Public Administration, Education, Research, Health and Culture.

GRNET has been appointed by the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance as the responsible entity for coordinating the national EuroQCI project.

GRNET:

✔ holds a key role as the coordinator of all e-infrastructure services in Education and Research in Greece and is the leader in a coordinated effort for development of e-infrastructures and services in Southeast Europe (SEEREN, SEE-GRID series, HP-SEE, VI-SEEM, NI4OS-Europe projects).

✔ operates a backbone network covering the whole national territory: more than 10,000 km of dark fibers, operated by GRNET-owned equipment, with several 10 Gbps connections to 50 Institutions.

✔ leads cloud computing and data infrastructure for R&E community in Greece and beyond and owns 134 racks, 2000+ servers, 11.500 Virtual Machines active, 3 Petabytes of disk storage, 5 Petabytes tape.

✔ is one of the core data centers of the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure, involved in infrastructure and service operations and management. 

✔ In the realm of High-Performance Computing (HPC), is currently operating the Greek national HPC Tier-1 centre – ARIS (Advanced Research Information System) which includes 5 computational islands and a theoretical peak performance at 535 Tflops.

✔is currently building and will be operating the future National HPC DAEDALUS Supercomputing System and Data Center.

ROLE IN THE HellasQCI Project:

Overall coordination of the Project 

• WP1: Project management 
• WP2: Design of the HellasQCI and interoperability with EuroQCI 
• WP3: Implementation and operation of the HellasQCI 
• WP4: Demonstration of the Use Cases 
• WP5: Trainings in QCI and QKD systems and networks 
• WP6: Communication, dissemination and exploitation 

GRNET coordinates the HellasQCI project and leads the actions relevant to the design of the Quantum Communication Infrastructure of Greece, the interoperability with EuroQCI and the implementation & operation of the HellasQCI. 

Under the guidance of the Ministry of Digital Governance, it oversees the cooperative efforts within HellasQCI and other EuroQCI members, engaging National Stakeholders and establishing the HellasQCI community.