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Introducing SURF
- 1. INTRODUCING SURF Annette Langedijk RDNLcourse “Essentials 4 Data Support” Amsterdam, 22 November 2018
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- 3. Education Flexible education Diverse learningresources Using study data Research Unlimited access World-class facilities Stimulating Open Science Cooperative facilities On campus Security in the digital world User-centred Fields of work
- 4. Current Science 5 Turbulance modelling Proteinstructure prediction Weather prediction High energy physics Astronomy Genetics Cartography Linguistics
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- 6. Challenges faced byscientists Compute power laptop Secure data storage Transfer big amounts of data Share data with colleagues abroad Software availability Complex user interfaces … 7
- 7. The national digitalinfrastructure Access to a wide range of reliable services to process, analyse, store and share data Available to all researchers, independent of the scientific domain Superior digital infrastructure is crucial to the Dutch knowledge economy
- 8. There’s a worldoutside… There are (commercial) alternatives to the national infrastructure Be aware of: • Hourly accounting • Data transfer costs • Legal issues 9
- 9. National e-infrastructure? or Host yourown hardware? Use public cloud providers? Technical considerations ‘Fit’ to the problem Ease of use Scalability Organizational considerations Collaboration Training, Support & Consultancy Legal issues Costs
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- 11. From floppy tocloud: making software available to institutions and users eduroam: securely online, anywhere SECURE, RELIABLE WI-FI 1500 LOCATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS 25,000 LOCATIONS IN 89 COUNTRIES
- 12. SURF network A reliablenetwork for member institutions since 1988 11,000 km of FIBRE OPTICS in the SURFnet network LOCATIONS with EDUROAM: 1,500 in THE NETHERLANDS 25,000WORLDWIDE in 89 countries
- 13. Identity Management Services SURFconext -access to cloud services - federative login (Institutional account, log in once, receive access everywhere) Science collaboration zone (pilot) - access to (research) specific services - federative login AND - guests - teams - international 14 Identity Providers Service Providers
- 14. surfspot.nl : smartdeals for research & education SOFTWARE PRODUCTS SOLD Top 3: 1 Office 365 ProPlus 2 IBM SPSS Statistics 24 3 Office 2016 Professional Plus
- 15. 16 What SURFsara doesfor research Compute services Supercomputing Cluster computing Visualisation Data processing Scalable data analytics Grid services HPC cloud Data services Online data services Data preservation services Data management services RESEARCH DATA LIFECYCLE Access Analyse Report Integrate Optimise Store (Re)search Translate Compute
- 16. Computing services 17 Dutch SupercomputerCartesius large scale parallel applications Lisa Computer Cluster processing power with user friendliness Visualisation powerfull remote visualization Stored research data 50.5 PB On 01-01-2018 + 28,5 % vs last year
- 17. Scalable Data Analytics Exploration/ Mining of Big Data Streaming data (real time analysis) Spark framework, flexible infrastructure built on Kubernetes, training with Jupyter notebooks 18 https://twinl.surfsara.nl/ “2 to 6 million tweets/day” Prof. Antal van den Bosch Radboud University, Meertens Institute
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- 19. Data services inthe Netherlands 20 Archive Data ingest service SURF object storage
- 20. SURF Data services 21 Dataingest service Archive SURF object storage
- 21. SURFfilesender (a safe alternativefor WeTransfer) • Send files up to 500 GB • Up to 2 GB encryption in new version • Temporary storage of files in the Netherlands (privacy) • free
- 23. SURF Research DriveSURFdriveSidebySide üPersonal storage (incl. sharing files) ü Store up to 250 GB per user ü Secure and Simple ü High Availability , 24/7 Support ü Annual contract per institution ü Flexible storage for cooperating Research Teams ü Unlimited storage capability per Research Team ü Data Stewardship ü Integration possibilities with SURF compute, data and public provider cloud services ü Pay per Use
- 24. SURF Data ManagementPlatform: enabling Data Orchestration * DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM External Storage Object Store ? User Interfaces Local Storage Plugins Apps Services - Metadata handling - Data repositories - Dropbox-like services - Notebooks * In development POWERED BY
- 25. SURF is more.. thanjust big systems 26 Consultancy Training Knowledge Exchange
- 26. SURF Support4Research: thelong tail 27
- 27. The Support4Research supporttriangle 28 scientist Local ICT support Shape collaboration Advice, training, hands-on support Advice, training, hands-on support Train-the-trainer SURF
- 28. SURF Training, Knowledgeexchange 29
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