Poster Abstract

P6.7 Sara Bertocco (inaf)

Theme: Local and global cloud infrastructure for processing and storage

INAF Trieste Astronomical Observatory Information Technology Framework

INAF Trieste Astronomical Observatory (OATs) has a long tradition in information technology applied to Astronomical and Astrophysical use cases, particularly for what regards computing for data reduction, analysis and simulations; data and archives management; space missions data processing; design and software development for ground-based instruments.
INAF – OATs participated, since the beginning, in Italian Grid and Cloud initiatives gaining a major role in Italy and in Europe in large projects for the development of a multidisciplinary platform for distributed computing and data resources sharing.
Recently it participated in EU EGI.eu projects, coordinating the Astronomy and Astrophysics community, for the development of a cloud based infrastructure in Europe with the aim to spread the IVOA standards based interoperability with CANFAR in Canada.
INAF – OATs deployed a computing centre that offers HPC and cloud resources for internal users, INAF and large international projects.
Now INAF – OATs is active in the design of the SKA regional centres.
In this poster we describe our technological stuff, main computing activities and our involvement in the ESCAPE EU Project.