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The '''Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications''' ('''DEISA''') is a [[European Union]] [[supercomputer]] project. It is made up of a consortium of eleven leading national supercomputing centres from seven [[Europe]]an countries. It supports pan-European research by providing and operating a distributed supercomputing environment all over Europeand aims at delivering a turnkey opera­tional solution for a future European [[high-performance computing]] system. By extending the European collaborative environment in the area of supercomputing, DEISA follows the suggestions of [[ESFRI]].

=== History ===

The DEISA project started as DEISA1<ref>[http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=9043360&pid=0&q=0B66388C6D78D5C148A0745B42BDAE57&type=sim DEISA1 on [[Cordis]]]</ref> in 2002 developing and supporting a pan-European distributed high performance computing infrastructure. The initial project was funded by the [[European Commission]] in [[Sixth Framework Programme|FP6]]. The funding continued for the followup project DEISA2<ref>[http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=10069312&pid=0&q=552A6FB756E2670E450CDD0BC5BED465&type=sim Continued funding]]</ref> in [[Seventh Framework Programme|FP7]].

=== Infrastructure ===

The DEISA infrastructure couples the eleven national supercomputing centres which form the DEISA consortium with a dedicated (mostly 10Gbit/s) network connection provided by [[GEANT2|GÉANT2]] on the European level and the [[NREN]]s on the national level. New associate partners will also be connected to this infrastructure.