Facilities

The Target Field Lab exploits the facilities of the Centre for Information Technology (CIT) of the University of Groningen (UG).

Currently available resources

• The large scale Data Handling Facility, which currently has a capacity of 3,000 TBytes  (3 Petabytes) of data on a lustre file system and 20 application servers.

• The Peregrine computer cluster, which currently has almost 6,000 cores.

• An Oracle database Real Application Cluster with a capacity of 150 TBytes on solid state drives. Oracle is one of the leading multinational corporations for computer technology, developing enterprise software and hardware solutions.

• Access to the 250-seater Virtual Reality dome theatre in DOT- DOTliveplanetarium (3D).

• A large capacity tape backup facility using IBMs Tivoli Storage Management.

During the course of the project it is intended to add further facilities. These include:

• Data archiving systems using a choice of iRODS or dCache

• An Openstack cluster to flexibly host systems and services