You, as a user, see the HPC Cloud as a virtualising environment where you can build your own cluster (IaaS paradigm). We describe here the hardware specifications of the physical environment. In principle you should not worry about these as an end-user, because you do not have direct contact with the hardware.
Up to 80 cores with 480 GB RAM.
x 3 redundancy to prevent data loss caused by hardware failure, on 10 Gbit network per storage node
An up to date hardware specification is available in a cloud documentation page.
The SURFsara Data Archive allows the user to safely archive up to petabytes of valuable research data.
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) ensure the findability of your data. SURFsara offers a PID provisioning service in cooperation with the European Persistent Identifier Consortium (EPIC).
B2SAFE is a robust, secure and accessible data management service. It allows common repositories to reliably implement data management policies, even in multiple administrative domains.
The grid is a transnational distributed infrastructure of compute clusters and storage systems. SURFsara is active as partner in various...
Spider is a dynamic, flexible, and customizable platform locally hosted at SURF. Optimized for collaboration, it is supported by an ecosystem of tools to allow for data-intensive projects that you can start up quickly and easily.
The Data Ingest Service is a service provided by SURFsara for users that want to upload a large amount of data to SURFsara and who not have the sufficient amount...
The Collaboratorium is a visualization and presentation space for science and industry. The facility is of great use for researchers that are faced with...
Data visualization can play an important role in research, specifically in data analysis to complement other analysis methods, such as statistical analysis.