NordForsk. NDGF vs NorduGrid Many confuse NDGF and NorduGrid - which is not surprising, especially since in its second phase NDGF was proposed to assume the name "NorduGrid". It was however decided to distinguish between the mostly development-oriented project, NorduGrid, and the mostly operations-oriented one, NDGF. As a rule of thumb, NDGF provides mostly services, while NorduGrid provides mostly ARC middleware. See also NeIC, the organisation operating NDGF Tier-1 since 2012 NorduGrid collaboration, provider of the ARC middleware NORDUnet, the NDGF hosting organisation in 2006-2011 References External links NDGF Tier-1 page CERN, host of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid dCache, system for storing and retrieving massive data Distributed computing projects Grid computing Information technology organizations based in Europe