Contact Details
University of Groningen
Nettelbosje 1 9747 AJ Groningen, the Netherlands
Dr. Jorn Seubers

Secretary office : +31 50 363 9200
Hotel Description
The Center for Information Technology (CIT) offers the full range of IT-services that enable scientists to perform their research. This varies from High Performance Computing facilities to FAIR research data facilities for storage and archiving. The CIT data services are part of the NWO large-scale scientific infrastructure. The CIT participates in both regional (Lifelines) and (inter)national projects (Excelerate) in the life sciences and is partner in BBMRI-NL.
- Biodiversity & ecology
- Biomedical & health
- Other
Expertise and Track Record
Expertise on scale out research data storage, network, HPC, Cloud services, virtualization, visualisation, repositories
Track record
Lifelines : virtual research workstations, database, security, sysadmin, backup , HPC, (FAIR) data management
GCC : sysadmin, HPC hardware, hosting, secure access, NGS, procurement
International technology networks
BIGGRID, NLGRID, support, hosting
SURF, SARA, ESCIENCE Center & Vancis, support
LOFAR, DOME support
TARGET, support
GCC, LIFELINES, GLIMPS,support
ENACT, support
SKA, HPC Cambridge, support
Lifelines : virtual research workstations, database, security, sysadmin, backup , HPC, data management
https://www.lifelines.nl/
Glimps: database
http://www.rug.nl/society-business/target/projects-and-rd/target_projects/glimps
GCC : sysadmin, HPC hardware, hosting, secure access, NGS, procurement
Enact: https://cmi-nen.nl/pages/enact
BIGGRID, NLGRID, support, hosting
SURF, SARA, ESCIENCE Center & Vancis, support
LOFAR, DOME support
TARGET, support
GCC, LIFELINES, support
ENACT, support
SKA, HPC Cambridge, support
Hotel Characteristics
- The CIT is the central IT facility of the University Groningen. CIT also offers and cooperates in IT services with UMCG Research IT.
- There are 25 IT specialists in HPC, datascience, visualisation (VR and AR), (human subject) research data management and Geo Services working dedicated for IT research.