Introduction to Nikhef, our experiments, and ICT network history

• David Groep (Nikhef)

Room: Library

The backside of the Internet (tour NikhefHousing facilities)

• Anton Mors
• David Groep (Nikhef)

Room: H140, H142 NikhefHousing public internet exchange location and international peering centre, its cooling & power infrastructure, and international connections: AmsIX, NL-ix, and all networks at <a href="https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/18">https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/18</a>

ICT Research & Innovation: interactive demos and discussion

• David Groep (Nikhef)
• Tristan Suerink

Room: Library For example one or more of: * building and managing compute clusters and distributed storagehigh-availability through network distribution: a stateful IP anycast service between Athens, Amsterdam, and Oxford * from metal to service, segmentation and virtualisation: using XCP-ng and XenOrchestra to host critical services as well as an experimental end-user private IaaS cloud from Quattor to Ansible/SaltStack to cloud-init VM templates. * or for the organisationally-inclined I can talk about the SURF 'staircase' model of HPC services, from local Tier-2 facilities, national Tier-1 HPC on Snellius, through to global computing with EuroHPC, LUMI, and the discussion on the AI Factory - and how SURF coordinates this landscape. * or on the model for (research) ICT at Nikhef: foundational principles and emergent architecture as a conceptual basis * or ...

Security monitoring at scale

• Sil Westerveld (Nikhef)

Room: Library The Nikhef SOC, optical wiretapping, and how to handle 600+GByte of log data per day with the WLCG SOC architecture

visit science data centre 'H234b' and ancillary Innovation facilities

• David Groep (Nikhef)
• Tristan Suerink

Room: H234b, H234f ICT infrastructure research development and Experimental Technologies Platform lab