About D4Science

D4Science is an organisation offering a Data Infrastructure since 2014.

D4Science is:

  • connecting +18,000 scientists in 50+ countries
  • integrating data from +50 heterogeneous providers
  • executing +50,000 data analysis/month
  • providing access to over a billion quality records in repositories worldwide
  • operating with 99,8% service availability

D4Science hosts +175 Virtual Research Environments (VREs) to serve the biological, ecological, environmental, social mining, culture heritage, and statistical communities world-wide.

D4Science serves different domains

in 50+ countries worldwide

D4Science is operating with 99,8% availability and 99,47% service reliability

 

D4Science capacities:

  • uses cloud-computing technologies to manage +500 servers (more than 29 TB Ram, +6300 CPUs, 1400+ TB storage) 
  • is monitored via Nagios and Prometheus
  • is automated via Ansible for Application Deployment , Configuration Management and Continuous Delivery
  • is governed by deployment and operation policies
  • has established Sevice Level Agreements (SLA)
  • is operated according to defined Terms of Use

D4Science sites:

Two main sites are directly contributing to the infrastructure with hardware resources:

 
 

D4Science Team:

D4Science is operated by a team of professionals and researchers having as main objective the maintenance, the updating, the operation and the support for users of the infrastructure itself. Meet The D4Science Team.