Conveners
IT Facilities and Business Continuity
- Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))
- Wayne Salter (CERN)
IT Facilities and Business Continuity
- Peter Gronbech (University of Oxford (GB))
- Wayne Salter (CERN)
Germany is severely hit by energy price increases and an uncertain availability of power.
This has consequences also to the DESY laboratory.
We will show the overall situation of DESY, and reflect on some ideas for saving energy - with a focus on IT related topics.
This talk will give an overview of the hardware procurement activities carried in the IT department in the last 2-3 years, highlighting the achieved results in the acquisition of computing and storage equipment during LS2 and moving to the preparation for PCC.
Together with the figures and the data, it will also be covered how the recent issues in the global supply chain affected the...
In last two years at CERN we have moved from spreadsheets / notes / printouts to an integrated environment allowing followup of the complete lifecycle of data center assets in a coherent and streamlined way and also providing assistance in planning for future hardware installations.
The talk will present current usage of OpenDCIM platform at CERN and outline its integration with other...
In 2007 HPC2N at Umeå University built a new computer room for air cooled high density computing (40+ kW/rack), and presented this over several HEPiX meetings.
This is a follow-up talk where we go over the design, how it turned out in practice, upgrades, experiences over 15 years in production, thoughts for the future, etc.