Another beautiful day to live and witness what
Datacenter holds and what is really into it. Today is the day that we get to
visit a datacenter that Servers University of Groningen. It servers not only
University of Groningen student but also Hanze University and used to host some
other company.
In this data center we did not only get to see
many servers but also we get to see larger and most effective ones. We also get
to see that server that is used to capture data from space by using telescopes.
This was the fastest computer when it was bought and it still in the top 5000
fastest computer in the world. We also get to see new type of servers that a
small in size and efficient as the one we have by now or sometimes most
efficient. We get to see also backup facilities. Arrangement of server room is
as good as you can never imagine, cooling system is aimed only to the servers
as there is no need to cool the whole room. The plan is to minimize power
usage.
In such hug facility, multiple servers and
important server power sources has to be stable if not then number of activist
includes reaches could not be available, based with this finding TPSC has to
learn new ways to insure that power failures should not be entertained and must
be taken seriously and measures needs to be taken as soon as possible and not to
wait until one of the servers to go off.
University’s data, mails and other reports are
all stored in these server that make security of severs very high, availability
of system must be ensured and power supply must also be ensured as a simple
failure to any of the factors I mentioned above would mean a total loss.
We get to learn that the backbone of the system
is mainly in open source software (Linux as operating system) this reduces cost
very much as if they had to use licensed copies they would have to pay for
thousands of licenses for each server they own. I believe TPSC has to use such
approach too as it is one cost effective measure in ICT implementation.
After datacenter we get opportunity to see visit
other parts of the University, we get to see ongoing building construction and
sports department and sport facilities.
At the end of the tour, we were attracted to do
our further studies in this university as it has everything in place and well
defined, TPSC could do it too, and we only need to start from somewhere.
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