he RCS team is here to help you navigate SURF’s services. Whether you are applying for a small or large compute grant, need help estimating resources in relation to SURF’s billing units, or determining if your project is suitable for SURF’s services, we are here to support you.

SURF’s types of services

SURF offers various services, including the following computing and storage solutions:

  • Spider Cluster – A high-performance Data Processing (DP) platform
  • Snellius Cluster – the Dutch National supercomputer
  • SURF Research Cloud (SRC) – a portal to easily build a virtual research environment
  • Research Data Storage Services:
    •  SURF Data Archive – Allows safe research data archival up to petabytes to ensure the long-term accessibility and reproducibility
    • Data Repository – A web-based data publication and archiving platform
    • dCache – A scalable storage system containing more than 50 petabytes of scientific data
    • Object Store: Ideal for storing unstructured data that can grow without bound

To learn more about SURF and its range of services, please visit their website.