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The name "NorduGrid" first became known in 2001 as short for the project called "Nordic Testbed for Wide Area Computing and Data Handling" funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers via the Nordunet2 programme. That project's main goal was to set up a prototype of a distributed computing infrastructure (a "testbed"), aiming primarily at the needs of the High Energy Physics researchers in the ATLAS experiment.