Site visit FSE & DACS at NikhefHousing and DC Amsterdam

Wednesday 16 Oct 2024, 10:30 → 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Library (Nikhef Amsterdam)

David Groep (Nikhef)

You can get to Nikhef Amsterdam by public transport ("Amsterdam Science Park") or by car. There is on-site free parking available - please send your licence plate number beforehand so you can be registered for free access. On the A10, take exit 13 "Watergraafsmeer" and turn towards the city centre on S113. After about 1 km, take a right onto the Kruislaan (on your left will be the Oosterbegraafplaats cemetery), and on the Kruislaan continue straight ahead, via the underpass, and then still continue to drive in the same direction until you turn left just before the white building "SURF Amsterdam". You can park in lot P1A or P1E.

By train from Maastricht, the fastest route is to alight at Amsterdam Amstel station and then take the number 40 bus to "Muiderpoort Station". The bus stop "Amsterdam Science Park Aer" is the closest one to Nikhef, just after the underpass under the train shunting yard. Avoid the UvA FNWI building. Rather, enter the WCW Science Park on your left in the direction of bus travel, over a small bridge. Nikhef will be right in front of you.

You can find Nikhef at Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam.

Detailed directions: https://www.nikhef.nl/en/where-do-you-find-us/

10:30 → 11:00 Walk-in and coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Introduction to Nikhef, our experiments, and ICT network history

Speaker: David Groep (Nikhef)

Intro-Nikhef-and-Housing-UM-FSEDACS-20241016.pdf

Intro-Nikhef-and-Housing-UM-FSEDACS-20241016.pptx

11:30 → 12:30 The backside of the Internet (tour NikhefHousing facilities)

NikhefHousing public internet exchange location and international peering centre, its cooling & power infrastructure, and international connections: AmsIX, NL-ix, and all networks at https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/18

Speakers: Anton Mors, David Groep (Nikhef)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:25 ICT Research & Innovation: interactive demos and discussion

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 ...

Speakers: David Groep (Nikhef), Tristan Suerink

Materials for (a subset of) these topics

14:25 → 14:45 Security monitoring at scale

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

Speaker: Sil Westerveld (Nikhef)

14:45 → 15:30 visit science data centre 'H234b' and ancillary Innovation facilities

ICT infrastructure research development and Experimental Technologies Platform lab

Speakers: David Groep (Nikhef), Tristan Suerink

15:30 → 16:30 discussion & coffee, drinks, etc.