11.15am to 11.40am
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of seven UK publicly funded Research Councils. The STFC has a broad science portfolio, and shares its expertise with the academic and industrial communities in fields ranging from laser science to particle and nuclear physics. The Council also operates world class scientific facilities such as the ISIS pulsed neutron source and the High performance computing resources of the Hartree Centre. The STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire hosts a growing number of data centric scientific research projects which collaborate with partner organisations throughout the World. One example is the LHC Tier-1 centre which processes data in the order of PetaBytes a year from the 'big bang' machine, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Another example is the JASMIN/ CEMS project which performs data analysis on behalf of the UK and European climate and earth system modeling community. Although diverse, these projects all share a need for the timely transfer of large datasets around the World. The talk will discuss how the Rutherford Appleton network is being re-designed and re-developed to meet the current and future needs of these projects, addressing their network throughput and resilience requirements in a scalable and repeatable manner.
Speakers: Mark Leese
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