Evert LammertsApril 12, 2012

Data science:
How to get value from your data

Where you are...

Science Park Amsterdam: 98 Soccer fields

4.5 meter below sea level

Where you are...

Nikhef: 5Th website ever in the world

Large Hadron Collider research

Nobelprize in Physics:Martinus Veldman (NIKHEF)

Gerard 't Hooft (UU)

Linear accelerator till 1998

Our hosts!

Where you are...

SARA & Vancis: 40 years of computing

National supercomputer Huygens

+10k cores

Maintaining SURFNet

SARA & Nikhef: AMS-IX:Since 1994, with CERN

1997: 4.5 Tbyte total traffic

1998: first IPv6 tests

1998: 26.3 Tbyte total traffic

2003: 22Gbps speed

2006: 1.5 PB per day traffic

2008: 500Gbps speed

2010: +1Tbps speed

Tier 1 center for CERN's LHC

Where you are...

CWI: One of SARA's founding fathers

Guido van Rossum (inventor of Python, now Google)

Piet Beertema:Connected Netherlands as second country in the world to the internet

Registered the first ever TLD, .nl, and administred it for ~10 years

and the message from our sponsor:

BiG Grid

National Grid Infrastructure +7k cores ~10PB disk storage Who knows how much tape storage? ~20PB?Umbrella for NIKHEF & SARA to act as tier 1

Sponsor of our Hadoop cluster!Sponsor of our Cloud cluster!

First off...

Who am I?

Consultant for SARA's eScience & Cloud ServicesLead Hadoop infrastructure@eevrt

Who are you?

Why are you here and what do you expect?Anybody going to Hadoop Summit?

And then...

How about tonight?

Can I eat that pizza and drink that beer now please?The gates close at 7. Can I ever leave again?Do I really have to put this shirt on?Tweet @ #nlhug

Who is talking?

Joaquin Vanschoren, on sensor dataEdgar Meij, on Information Retrieval

What's more...

Why data science?

So lets hear them

...tell us what you think @#nlhugnlhug.org

...and if you're inspired,come play with our new cluster!

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