| Year | Month | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | November | S. F. Novaes, E. M. Gregores: “Thematic Project” approved by FAPESP |
| Procurement processes for buying hardware starts | ||
| 2004 | January | Installation of physical infrastructure starts at University of São Paulo |
| March | “Phase I” deployed: SPRACE starts processing D0 jobs | |
| September | One million MC events processed for D0 collaboration | |
| November | SC´04 record of data transmission (~ 2 Gbps) | |
| 2005 | March | 3.5 million MC events & 1 TB of data generated for D0 |
| June | "Phase II” deployed: 115 cores & 12 TB storage | |
| July | US Open Science Grid (OSG) comes to live | |
| August | SPRACE signs membership with OSG | |
| 2006 | New WDM channel (ANSP): SPRACE @ 1 Gbps | |
| SPRACE starts processing jobs for CMS VO of OSG | ||
| September | “Phase III” deployed: 180 cores & 12 TB disk | |
| 2007 | New sysadmins for SPRACE starts | |
| Discussion (ANSP) to deploy a CA for the State of São Paulo | ||
| New UNESP campus connected to MetroSampa network | ||
| 2008 | March | SPRACE domain: from “if.usp.br” to “sprace.org.br” |
| September | LHC first beam | |
| October | New Thematic approved | |
| November | NCC is officially created | |
| 2009 | January | Construction of NCC datacenter at new UNESP campus starts |
| April | FAPESP signs MoU with WLCG: BR-SP-SPRACE is now official | |
| SPRACE cluster transferred from USP to UNESP (~ 5 tons in 32 hours) | ||
| September | Inauguration of NCC datacenter and GridUnesp infrastructure | |
| November | SC´09 in Portland: new record of data transmission (~8.8 Gbps) | |
| 2010 | January | New router (FAPESP): NCC connected to KyaTera & MetroSampa |
| August | SPRACE “Phase IV” deployed: 200 TB of storage | |
| New amplifiers (Padtec) on Kyatera network: 10 Gbps from NCC-ANSP | ||
| December | São Paulo OSG School: 5 experts from US: 30+ participants | |
| 2011 | KyaTera network at NCC in production: 10G (commodity) + 10G (R&D) | |
| March | GridUNESP presented at OSG-AHM´11 (Harvard Univ.) | |
| Partnership Intel: development of cloud at the Secretary of Education | ||
| 2012 | May | NCC Workshop for training system administrators in HPC |
| June | SPRACE “Phase V” deployed: ~850 TB storage (1 PB raw) | |
| August | IGTF approves ANSP Grid CA | |
| November | SC´12: SPRACE-Padtec-Caltech demonstration of 100G link | |
| 2013 | July | NCC server used at INFIERI Summer School (Oxford) |
| August | NCC/SP and COPPE/RJ:“Intel Software Conference” | |
| November | SC´13: OpenFlow exercise & new demo with Padtec | |
| 2014 | July | NCC server used at the second INFIERI Summer School (Paris) |
| August | NCC selected as a Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) | |
| November | SC´14 demonstration |