1. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology Centre of Information Technology RUG Robert Janz Centre of Information Technology University of Groningen

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3. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology founded in 1614 The University of Groningen University of Groningen 1

4. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology Center for Information Technology >ICT service institute of the university >Staff: 141 fte >Budget: € 16.000.000 (2012) >Internetlink: multiple 10 Gbit/s links >2 computer halls: 725 m 2 >Electricity consumption computer halls: 3.000.000 kilowatt-hour

5. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology High Performance Computing >Linux cluster (400 cores) >Grid cluster (200 cores, 48 Terabyte storage) >Super pc (16 cores, 128 GB memory) >Blue Gene/P (12.000 cores, 35 Tflops/s) >New cluster: ± 2.500 cores

6. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology Reality Cube and Virtual Reality Theatre

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12. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology High capacity ICT-Network transport High capacity ICT-Network transport ICT- Sensors receive ICT- Sensors receive Hypercomputer data processing Hypercomputer data processing Data storage Supercomputer analysis Supercomputer analysis 1 2 3 4 5 Universe Earth Soil, Climate Astronomy, Agriculture, Meteorology Geofysics LOFAR ICT-Platform

13. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology LOFAR: data generation and transport, middle distance High capacity optical network coupling clusters of RF sensors High speed data transport Sensor cluster (Station) X Cluster of RF sensors Central processor 13.000 antennas 100 stations full control via internet simultaneous users

14. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology LOFAR: data generation and transport, middle distance High capacity optical network coupling clusters of RF sensors High speed data transport Sensor cluster (Station) X Cluster of RF sensors Central processor 13.000 antennas 100 stations full control via internet simultaneous users

15. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology LOFAR central processing IBM BlueGene/L in LINUX cluster  Central processing:  35 Tflop/s  Data rates internally within correlator: 20 Tbit/s

16. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology data operation center - into storage: 25 Gbit/s = 250 TByte/day - final products: 1-3 TByte/day - archive: many PByte data storage academic research library: 2 TB print collections Library of Congress: 10 TB all US academic research libraries: 2 PB NCAR mass storage system (july 2004): 2 PB all printed material in the world: 200 PB all words ever spoken by human beings:5000 PB source: UC Berkeley

17. Date 10.03.2009 donald smits center for information technology >Lessons learned:  Get into close collaboration with the scientists  Do not over dimension first platform  Pay attention to expanding scientific impact to other disciplines  Human capacity building  Create opportunities for spin offs  Get more females into the picture

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