Target (project)
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Target is the name of a collaborative research project specialising in big data processing and management in northern Netherlands.[1] It is a public-private cooperation, initiated in 2009 and supported by government subsidies.[2] It is run by a consortium of ten academic and computer industry partners, coordinated by the University of Groningen, and researches data management of science projects in the area of astronomy, life sciences, artificial intelligence and medical diagnosis.
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Location | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
Established | January 2009 |
Funding | Funded by the European Fund for Regional Development & partners |
Website | rug |
Cooperating in the Target project are various divisions of the University of Groningen, its medical center, IBM, Oracle, ASTRON and Dutch IT firms Elkoog/Heeii and Nspyre.
Target's computer center is hosted by the Center for Information Technology, the computing center of the University of Groningen, and consist of more than 10 petabytes of storage[3][4] based on IBM's GPFS storage technology,[5] a high-performance computing cluster and a grid cluster, which is a part of the European Grid Infrastructure.