AN INTRODUCTION TO SURF

WHAT ICT INNOVATION CAN DO FOR RESEARCH

• 14 research universities

• 42 universities of applied sciences

(hogescholen)

• 8 university hospitals

• National Library of the Netherlands

(Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

(NWO)

• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and

Sciences (KNAW)

• TNO, Novay

• Commercial R&D institutions

• Small-scale higher education institutions

• International cooperation with Knowledge

Exchange, Géant, TERENA, EGI, EUDAT,

PRACE and EC projects etc.

Collaboration = success factor

SURF is a partnership of and for

institutions for higher education and

research

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NLeSC

RES EDU ADM

General

Board

Executive

Board

NWO

(research

fund)

OWNED BY INSTITUTIONS

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WORKING WITH INSTITUTIONS

• ICT has become a fact of life, including in the higher education and research sector.

• Research is becoming increasingly data-driven and requires an infrastructure for multi-institutional collaboration.

• Students and staff want to access services and information within the cloud from any location using their own devices.

SURF’s vision

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Big data

• Large complex datasets used by

researchers requires large-scale

computing capacity and high-

quality user support, combined

with advanced network facilities.

• Need for highly advanced

e-infrastructure.

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e-Infrastructure for

research

SURF is empowered to keep The Netherlands in the top 5 of the Global Competitiveness Index by providing an advanced national e-Infrastructure consisting of networks, supercomputers, grids and data.

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• Separate components of the

e-Infrastructure will be offered as an

integrated service for researchers.

• Coherent offering of network

services (SURFnet), SURFsara

facilities, and new services provided

by The Netherlands eScience

Center.

THE point of contact

for e-Infrastructure and support

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with user involvement and benefits outside community

• Rapid prototyping and proof of concept in pilots with concrete use cases (small number of users)

• Pre-market bandwidth and network technologies

• Pre-production with bigger number of users

• Production for whole user community

• Technology transfer (1-2 years delay)

• Attention to green IT and sustainability

• Recent examples: • HPC Cloud • Collaboratorium visualization lab • Beehub storage for science • Big Data Hadoop services • LTE-trials

Technology innovation @SURF

• Competitive advantage with national ICT-

infrastructure

• e-Infrastructure for industry and SME’s (pre-competitive research)

• Knowledge transfer

• Current and coming pilots:

• Simulation and modeling • Tata Steel, Vortech

• Big data • KPMG, National Police, CBS

• Visualization • Metaphora, Royal Haskoning DHV

• HPC clouds • Arcadis, Deltaris

• LTE trials • KPN, Tele2

SURF for the top sectors/SME

Companies

Government Science

Education

Top Sectors

guarantees collaboration and involvement of managers in

higher education and research

connects users and ICT services and creates new

functional possibilities

favourable conditions for ICT services, software, content

high performance computing, visualisation and data services for research

What SURF can do for researchers

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multidisciplinary and data intensive research

• Unlimited data

transport

supporting big data

• Connecting users

and services to

each other and to

the world

• Optimal use of

cloud services via

Netherlight

• Wireless and mobile

(LTE) access

through eduroam

• Bandwidth on

demand

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State of the art

network infrastructure

100 Gb/s

Lightpath

BoD

Internet or BoD

Wireless

Cloud services

Research Infrastructures The rest of the Internet

SURFconext:

connecting people and resources

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Cloud services

SURFsara:

Wide range of users and services

SARA HPC ecosystem

6 categories of services

• Low-latency, high-bandwidth

national supercomputer;

• Capacity compute cluster;

• IAAS, PAAS and SAAS

on-demand cloud services

• Loosely coupled compute and

data grid farms;

• Big data cloud and software

Services;

• Special-purpose architectures

(accelerators), for hybrid

computing services.

Work with diverse domains

and partners

Priority application domains • Chemistry & Materials

• Life Sciences

• eScience Methodology & ‘Big

Data’

• Humanities & Social Sciences

• Sustainability & Environment

Optimizing discovery

in the big data era

eScience integrators

• Top researchers from variety of

disciplines

• Experience & understanding of

eScience

• Create commitment

• Stimulate new collaborations

eScience engineers

• Translate modern ICT into

sustainable & coherent research

solutions

• Collaborate closely with domain

experts

• Work both at center and on site

Researchers support researchers

Linking pin between

the other

SURF organisations

governmental and

policy bodies

and board members of

institutions …

…the HE & R community

through

special interest groups

• Research Data

• Research Information

• Research Support

www.surfspace.nl

SURFacademy

and through international

partnerships

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A framework to share knowledge

• Management of research data

• Research Information

• Research Support

• Open access, open data

Focus on deposit of and access to

research publications and research data

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Research themes and innovation projects

• Cloud computing

• Privacy and security

• Sustainability (Green IT)

• Online education

• Open educational resources

• Digital testing

• Digital learning and working environment

in the information stands in the

foyer

• SURF

• SURFnet

• SURFsara

• Netherlands eScience Center

• Special interest groups

Research and Cloud

implementation

• Knowledge Exchange

More information

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Let’s meet now

Frank Seinstra Nicole Gregoire Jan Bot Magchiel Bijsterbosch

Information event - 27 March 2013

www.surf.nl/EYR

Thank you for your attention!

info@surf.nl

www.surf.nl