In SPECTRUM, SURF contributes as HPC, HTC, Cloud Infrastructure Provider and contact to extended scientific domains ecosystems.
SURF is the cooperative association of educational and research institutions in the Netherlands with more than 50 years of experience. SURF supports research by developing advanced and sustainable ICT solutions with services in the areas of computing (HPC, HTC and Cloud), storage, data management, network and experimental technologies. SURF operates the Dutch national supercomputer and provides the National Research and Education Network (NREN). SURF supports open science, FAIR best practices and provides multidisciplinary expertise and support in e-Infrastructure use and application.
SURF serves a number of large research areas, including HEP and RA. SURF is a Tier-1 data and computing centre for the LHC/HL-LHC experiments, provides about half the storage for the distributed and federated LOFAR Long Term Archive, and is actively involved in setting up the SKA Regional Center Network. SURF is a partner in pan-European and global e-Infrastructures and manages over 150 PB of data for a diverse set of international users and stakeholders. In this project SURF contributes with its decades long expertise in research IT to the access policies, landscape analysis, Technical Blueprint and SRIDA.
