User:Sautekai/sandbox
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Target is an ongoing public-private project in the area of large-scale data management and information systems. It is run by a consortium of ten academic and IT industry partners coordinated by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Target conducts research and development with a focus on the design of intelligent information systems that can efficiently process data and extract information from extremely large and structurally diverse datasets. Target has set up an expertise center in Groningen for
- data management of (inter)national science projects in the area of astronomy, life sciences, artificial intelligence, medical diagnosis and more
- initiation of market-driven R&D activities in collaboration with IT businesses that can lead to competitive Big Data solutions and applications.
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Mission statement | Development of Big Data information systems |
Location | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
Established | January 2009 |
Funding | Funded by the European Fund for Regional Development & partners |
Website | www.rug.nl/target |
The Target infrastructure belongs to one of the largest academic computer center in the Netherlands. Hosted by the Donald Smits Center for Information Technology at the University of Groningen, the Target facilities consist of more than 10 Petabytes of GPFS-based storage, high-performance supercomputing cluster and a GRID cluster, which is a part of the Big Grid and the European Grid Infrastructure.