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Milestones of complex computing facility assembling

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IMCS UL continues its enduring development of research e-infrastructure, participates in international projects such as GEANT, GN2, GN3, GN3+, GN4, BalticGRID, BG II and EGI-InSPIRE, has involved in CLARIN and ELIXIR ESFRI ERIC activities. Currently IMCS UL maintains Scientific Cloud unified computing facility realized as ½ PTB SAN storage (IBM DS4700 with servers); provides collocation, hosting and virtualization services. As well it operates as a node for online correlation data streaming services from Irbene radio telescope in real time, HPC resources' disposal for computing tasks, usage of Big data extracted from data storage for modeling and also for graphic data processing. In the same way IMCS UL supports. LV domain name administration and CERT services at the national level. If research institution realizes investment project for research equipment modernization, very often they met several difficulties to satisfy requirements of public procurement in European Union. The key issue in the procurement procedure is long time (up to 1.5 years) disputation about potential violation in Procurement Monitoring Bureau and courts.