Systems Infrastructure
Infrastructure provides the expertise needed to develop, build, manage and maintain the high-performance networks, advanced storage systems and platforms infrastructure required to handle the vast amounts of data generated by scientific research.
- Provides Tier-1 services for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data
- Developed ECHO, a Ceph-based storage system to meet the UK’s commitment for LHC data storage
- Built JASMIN, a globally unique platform for compute and storage of environmental data
- Developed STFC Cloud Services
- Catalogues and discovers experimental data
- Captures analysis workflows
- Makes links between different research outputs
- Supports the research software development lifecycle
- Promotes and develops best practices around research software
Research & Expertise
ECHO, Ceph-based Object Storage
ECHO is the Ceph-backed object storage service for particle physics data, developed at STFC. More information is available here.
Scientific Data Archives
More information on the data archives, what is stored, for whom, how, and why, is available here.
STFC Cloud Infrastructure
STFC Cloud is a dedicated cloud infrastructure delivering compute resources for users across STFC and partner organisation facilities. More information is available here.
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Meet the team
Alexander Dibbo
Cloud Architect / Cloud Operations Group Lead
Alison Packer
Theme Lead, Systems Infrastructure
Cristina Del Cano Novales
Linux Systems Administrator, Systems Infrastructure, JASMIN
Derek Ross
Scientific Computing Systems and Service Manager, SCARF HPC Cluster
Emmanuel Bejide, Dr.
James Hannah
Infrastructure Team Leader, JASMIN
Kieran Howlett
Junior Network Engineer
Mahalakshmi Agilandamurthy
Storage System Administrator, Scientific Data Archives
Maksim Abuajamieh
Storage System Administrator, ECHO
Rob Appleyard
Ceph Team Lead, ECHO
Sarah Summers, Dr.
Senior Linux Systems Administrator, JASMIN
Will Furnell
Senior Systems Administrator, Systems Infrastructure, JASMIN
