The NDPF hosts the Nikhef part of the federated Dutch National e-Infrastructure. An integral part of the data processing services of Nikhef and joint with the SURF computing infrastructure, it is also closely linked to the other institutes at the Amsterdam Science Park, comprising many different functions. Access is coordinated by SURF for users with a SURF or NWO resource allocation.
The “Grid” clusters at Nikhef comprise 8000+ node computes, linked with 1.2Tbit to a 10+ PByte high-speed distributed storage cluster running dCache and providing GridFTP, WebDAV, and xrootd access. All nodes avail over CVMFS access to the EGI repositories, WLCG services, and SoftDrive.nl.
Local Nikhef users also have access to Stoomboot, providing further resources.
The Nikhef NDPF is part of the Dutch National e-Infrastructure, coordinated by SURF. It offers high-throughput platform services (grid) and infrastructure access characterised by bottle-neck free interconnects and high retrieval performance. Nikhef NDPF operates an open private peering policy for data-intensive academic institutions.