Latvia has become part of the global high-performance computing infrastructure community by joining the European Nuclear Research Centre (CERN) supercomputer network, so that large-scale scientific data processing will now also take place in Latvia. This historic moment was confirmed by a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 5 June by the Minister of Finance, Arvils Ašeradens, on behalf of the Minister of Education and Science, and CERN's Director of Information Technology and Research, Joachim Mnich.
Large-scale scientific data processing will also take place in Latvia as scientists from the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) seek to discover new physics phenomena, as five Latvian educational and scientific institutions have pooled their high-performance computing or supercomputing resources into a common network that will be used by CERN for scientific calculations in the future. The opening of the «Latvia CERN CMS TIER2» Federated Computing Centre and the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between Latvia and CERN will take place on 5 June at 9.30 in the conference hall of Riga Technical University (RTU), Āzenes street 6. The Memorandum will be signed by the Minister of Finance Arvils Ašeradens, on behalf of the Minister of Education and Science, and CERN Director of Information Technology and Research Joachim Mnich.
On 12 February, Professor Helmut Schorber, Director General of the European Spallation Source (ESS) multidisciplinary research centre of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium, visited RTU to learn about the scientific work of Riga Technical University (RTU) and to identify possible opportunities for cooperation.
