... work in progress TBC ... (service decription - highlight specifics and for the rest refer to spider docs)

NL-SRC project

NL-SRC stands for the Dutch SKA Regional Center (SRC) node in the SKA Regional Center Network (SRCNet). The NL-SRC is the led by ASTRON (https://www.astron.nl/) the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and supported by SURF with ICT infrastructure and expertise. The SRCNet will deliver a global, interconnected data and compute infrastructure that enables and accelerates radio astronomical research by providing easy access to (future) SKA data sets within a high performance computing infrastructure. The current NL-SRC project (2024) provides an initial prototyping and testing environment that is based on SURF's infrastructure for data processing; in particular the Spider platform (https://doc.spider.surfsara.nl/en/latest/) and the Grid storage that uses the dCache storage management technology.

Become part of NL-SRC

A growing number of researchers are interested in using the NLSRC prototype environment for their radio astronomical computing needs. In case you are interested please contact [...]

NLSRC cluster

SURF delivers the NLSRC cluster as a prototype high performance computing environment for the NL-SRC node in the SRCNet. NLSRC is a dedicated data processing cluster and modelled after the Spider cluster and part of SURF's suite of data processing services. Access to NLSRC is provided via the SURF Research Access Management (SRAM) system.

NLSRC documentation

Except for the access method, the functional setup of NLSRC is very similar to that of the SURF Spider cluster. We refer NLSRC users to the Spider documentation for more details on how to perform your work on the NLSRC cluster. In case of questions or issues you may contact SURF via our service desk. 

Important differences compared to Spider:

1) NLSRC makes use of SURF Research Access Management (SRAM) for access management. Documentation for access to NLSRC - following an approved agreement with ASTRON and SURF -  can be found [here] 

2) After creating or linking your SRAM account to a collaborative organization (CO) that is coupled with the NLSRC service your SRAM account will linked with a local account on the NLSRC service. The service can be accessed over ssh via [local_account_name]@nlsrc.surf.nl . Here the local_account_name is: [CO name]-surf-[sram_account_name] . 

E.g., if your CO name is 'galaxy' and your sram account name is 'jdoe' then your local account name will be 'galaxy-surf-jdoe' and you access the system via galaxy-surf-jdoe@nlsrc.surf.nl

3) Monitoring dashboards are available at the URL: https://monitor.nlsrc.surf.nl/grafana/login

4) The Web public views maps the directory /project/[PROJECTNAME]/Public folder in the project space to the URL: https://public.nlsrc.surf.nl/project/[PROJECTNAME]

NLSRC acceptable usage policy

The acceptable usage policy for the NLSRC service can be found here

NLSRC privacy policy

The privacy policy for the NLSRC service can be found here

Acknowledgments

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