Speakers
Description
The University of Groningen recently celebrated 60 years of computing at the university. A lot has changed in that time, but a constant factor is running calculations and analysis on our own hardware. Currently, this involves two clusters in two data centers and several petabytes of storage, built entirely with open source technologies. With this, we provide 2300+ researchers with computing power that matches their specialized needs without the prohibitive costs of commercial clouds, enabling research ranging from medical science to space exploration.
We want to show you what’s behind the blinkenlights: discover how we build and manage the foundational infrastructure under our compute clusters. We’ll cover our philosophy, the difficulties along the way, and our ambitious new project to redesign our entire infrastructure from scratch.
Key terms: configuration management, OpenStack, Ceph, software defined networking
