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Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Mirroring
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
Workpackage IITechnical Architecture
Walter BerendsohnBotanic Garden & Botanical Museum
Berlin-Dahlem; [email protected]
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Who we are & what we do
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BGBM Dept. for Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories
• 45 Linux and MS-Servers (VMware), 122 Terabyte primary storage.
• DBMS PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL-Server, CMS Drupal
• 4 Gigabit-Backbone, Gigabit-connection to GÉANT via GWIN
• 3-tier data security, remote by Central Facility for Data Processing (ZEDAT) of the Freie Universität Berlin.
• GBIF coordination and botanical node Germany
• 580 kEuro Hardware investment in Dec. 2010
• Average of 10 biodiversity informatics developers working during the past 15 years
• Now venturing into bioinformatics, 454 sequencing, DNA Bank network, workflows for biodiversity research
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What we will do in ViBRANT WP2 and how
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Specify and set up distributed robust data hosting environment for ViBRANT (led by NHM):
M1-9: Specification M9: Report
M10-12: Setup of distributed hosting environment (=D2.1)M12: Hosting environment up and running
M13-36 and beyond: Server maintenance
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Who are our users & how will they engage?
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Everybody using the Scratchpads (and other biodiversity infrastructure elements) through enhancement of
• performance• reliability• credibility
by means of a multi-institutional infrastructure setup.