About D4Science
D4Science is a Data Infrastructure operative since 2014.
D4Science is:
- connecting +24,000 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:
- The Pisa Site operated by the InfraScience Laboratory of the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" of the National Research Council of Italy;
- The Consortium GARR, a non-profit association whose main objective is to provide high-performance connectivity and to develop innovative services for the daily activities of researchers, professors and students as well as for international collaboration.
D4Science Team:
D4Science is operated by a team of professionals and researchers whose main objective is to maintain, update, operate, and support the infrastructure and its users. Meet The D4Science Team.