Name: Site visit FSE & DACS at NikhefHousing and DC Amsterdam
Start: 2024-10-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-16T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Nikhef Amsterdam

Site visit FSE & DACS at NikhefHousing and DC Amsterdam

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 - 10:30

Monday, 14 October 2024
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Wednesday, 16 October 2024

10:30 Walk-in and coffee
Walk-in and coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Library
11:00 Introduction to Nikhef, our experiments, and ICT network history - David Groep (Nikhef)
Introduction to Nikhef, our experiments, and ICT network history
- David Groep (Nikhef)
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Library
11:30 The backside of the Internet (tour NikhefHousing facilities) - Anton Mors David Groep (Nikhef)
The backside of the Internet (tour NikhefHousing facilities)
- Anton Mors
- David Groep (Nikhef)
11:30 - 12:30
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>
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Library
13:30 ICT Research & Innovation: interactive demos and discussion - David Groep (Nikhef) Tristan Suerink
ICT Research & Innovation: interactive demos and discussion
- David Groep (Nikhef)
- Tristan Suerink
13:30 - 14:25
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 ...
14:25 Security monitoring at scale - Sil Westerveld (Nikhef)
Security monitoring at scale
- Sil Westerveld (Nikhef)
14:25 - 14:45
Room: Library The Nikhef SOC, optical wiretapping, and how to handle 600+GByte of log data per day with the WLCG SOC architecture
14:45 visit science data centre 'H234b' and ancillary Innovation facilities - David Groep (Nikhef) Tristan Suerink
visit science data centre 'H234b' and ancillary Innovation facilities
- David Groep (Nikhef)
- Tristan Suerink
14:45 - 15:30
Room: H234b, H234f ICT infrastructure research development and Experimental Technologies Platform lab
15:30 discussion & coffee, drinks, etc.
discussion & coffee, drinks, etc.
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Library