1. Research IT Service Projects 2009 Fred Clarke, Head of Research IT Service 25 th February 2009

2. Research IT Projects IT 11 - Review and implement Customer demand services IT 12 - Data Centre / hosting services selection & project commencement IT 13 - Implement UCD & ICHEC HPC Cluster IT – 14 Data Management & Backup implementation Operational Projects

3. Hosting Service Customers Colleges – EMPS, Life Science Institute/Centre – Conway, Geary, HII, CASL, Irish Folklore ICHEC, NUIM, NIBRT, Grid Ireland, HEAnet Space usage Electricity usage

4. Data Centre options

8. Data Centre Management

9. HPC Clusters UCD Phaeton HPC Cluster Shared queues Community queues Stokes National service UCD queue 250 cores 11% Training Applications Helpdesk

10. Data Management -storage -tiers -connectivity -hosting -backup -snapshots -archive -ILM -acquisition -input -generation -security -policy -authorisation -authentication -disposal -retention -preservation -databases -metadata -schema -search -retrieval -analysis -visualisation -sharing -collaboration

11. Operational projects Storage and hosting services Training & Communications Collaboration within virtual research communities Consultancy – including data networks & security Progress UCD and national partnership strategies

12. Thank You