Conveners
IT facilities and business continuity
- Wayne Salter (CERN)
Ulf Tigerstedt
(CSC Oy)
28/10/2013, 14:00
IT Facilities & Business Continuity
Oral presentation
Early 2013 CSC (the it centre for science in Finland) powered up the new datacentre on Kajaani, 600 km north of the offices. The datacentre focuses of energy efficiency and cost-cutting, but the design and implementation was not easy.
Dr
Tony Wong
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
28/10/2013, 14:25
IT Facilities & Business Continuity
Oral presentation
The advent of cloud computing centers such as Amazon's EC2 and Google's Computing Engine has elicited comparisons with dedicated computing clusters. Discussions on appropriate usage of cloud resources (both academic and commercial) and costs have ensued. This presentation discusses a detailed analysis of the costs of operating and maintaining the RACF (RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility)...
Dr
Tony Wong
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
28/10/2013, 14:50
IT Facilities & Business Continuity
Oral presentation
We describe a recent rack installation incident at the RACF and its effects on facility operations. A draft proposal to address safety issues will also be discussed.
