In this position paper we describe the current status and plans for a Swiss National Research Infrastructure. Swiss academic and research institutions are very autonomous. While being loosely coupled, they do not rely on any centralized management entities. Therefore, a coordinated national research infrastructure can only be established by federating the various resources available locally at the individual institutions. The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid and the Swiss Academic Compute Cloud projects serve already a large number of diverse user communities. These projects also allow us to test the operational setup of such a heterogeneous federated infrastructure.
@article{arxiv.1404.7608,
title = {Towards a Swiss National Research Infrastructure},
author = {Peter Kunszt and Sergio Maffioletti and Dean Flanders and Markus Eurich and Thomas Bohnert and Andrew Edmonds and Heinz Stockinger and Sigve Haug and Almerina Jamakovic-Kapic and Placi Flury and Simon Leinen and Eryk Schiller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7608},
year = {2014}
}