Introduction 2nd Netherlands Hadoop User Group

1. Data science:
How to get value from your data
Evert Lammerts
April 12, 2012

2. Where you are...
Science Park Amsterdam:
98 Soccer fields
4.5 meter below sea level

3. Where you are...
Nikhef:
5Th website ever in the world
Large Hadron Collider research
Nobelprize in Physics:
Martinus Veldman (NIKHEF)
Gerard 't Hooft (UU)
Linear accelerator till 1998
Our hosts!

4. Where you are...
SARA & Vancis:
40 years of computing
National supercomputer Huygens
SARA & Nikhef: +10k cores
AMS-IX: Maintaining SURFNet
Since 1994, with CERN
1997: 4.5 Tbyte total traffic
1998: first IPv6 tests
1998: 26.3 Tbyte total traffic
2003: 22Gbps speed
2006: 1.5 PB per day traffic
2008: 500Gbps speed
2010: +1Tbps speed
Tier 1 center for CERN's LHC

5. Where you are...
CWI:
One of SARA's founding fathers
Guido van Rossum (inventor of
Python, now Google)
Piet Beertema:
Connected Netherlands as second
country in the world to the
internet
Registered the first ever TLD, .nl,
and administred it for ~10 years

6. … and the message from our sponsor:
BiG Grid
National Grid Infrastructure
+7k cores
~10PB disk storage
Who knows how much tape storage? ~20PB?
Umbrella for NIKHEF & SARA to act as tier 1
Sponsor of our Hadoop cluster!
Sponsor of our Cloud cluster!

7. First off...
Who am I?
Consultant for SARA's eScience & Cloud Services
Lead Hadoop infrastructure
@eevrt
Who are you?
Why are you here and what do you expect?
Anybody going to Hadoop Summit?

8. And then...
How about tonight?
Can I eat that pizza and drink that beer now please?
The gates close at 7. Can I ever leave again?
Do I really have to put this shirt on?
Tweet @ #nlhug
Who is talking?
Joaquin Vanschoren, on sensor data
Edgar Meij, on Information Retrieval

9. What's more...
Why data science?

12. So lets hear them
...tell us what you think @
#nlhug
nlhug.org
...and if you're inspired,
come play with our new cluster!