Medical Bioinformatics and e-Bioscience

Dutchgrid Certification Authority (CA)
If you need access to GRID applications (e.g., VLe) you need a certificate to authenticate (make your identity known) to services, hosts and other users in the grid environment. With your certificate, you can set up secure internet connections, sign your electronic messages, and prove your identity to web and grid sites. However, the certificate in itself does not give you any access rights per se: for that you will also need authorization for your favourite services.

Persons and systems from educational and research organisations in the Netherlands are eligible for identity certificates from the DutchGrid CA.

For the AMC please contact Angela Luijf (mailto: a.c.luyf@amc.uva.nl) if you need a certificate, see Certificate Request Walkthrough. More information at DutchGrid and howto get access and use the GRID.


Dutch Life sciences GRID
The AMC is part of the Dutch Life sciences GRID. The connection is established through a local computer cluster, which can be used for biomedical research applications (for more information contact Antoine van Kampen, mailto: a.h.vankampen@amc.uva.nl). The configuration of this clusters is shown in the picture below (click on picture to enlarge).


The Life Science Grid will be set up around a set of computer clusters that are located at the institutions participating in the project. Each cluster will have specific resources, tailored to the needs of the host institutes (Memory sizes, Computational power, Storage capacity, intra cluster and external network and bandwidth). The basis for each remote cluster, however, is the same.