A brief rundown of the facilities/technical installation for our in-house data centre as well as our semi commercial Nikhef Housing data centre.
This talk should take approximately 25 minutes
In the Nikhef PDP group we use salt to manage our systems and an extended version of reclass to store our system configuration data. The talk will cover how we do our configuration management and some lessons learnt from the way we do things.
For over two decades, Canada has fostered and supported subatomic physics distributed computing. Many of the handful of dedicated professionals who have contributed to the establishment of these infrastructures have been involved since the early 2000s and form the heart and soul of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada's (DRAC) Subatomic Physics National Team.
The team has deployed and...
If of interest, the setup of the new BaBar computing system can be described. BaBar had to move all of its computing infrastructure out of SLAC and installed a new system at UVic in 2021. While it was tried to keep the interface user are familiar with the same as before, the underlying system is using a more modern infrastructure now. It can be described how the data access is handled over...
This presentation will go into the requirements and considerations when offering a joint analysis facility for multiple science disciplines.
A rundown on how we've maintained continuity during a full building renovation and data centre expansion.
