IT Department
The computing facilities and the network of the Observatory are managed by the IT department.
For researchers at the Observatory, the IT staff provides a logisitic support for the installation and maintenance
of intensive compute machines such as Beowulf Clusters, number crunchers, compute servers, ... The team also
maintains the global computing infrastructure consisting of amongst others the email services, application servers, printing
facilities, database servers, network infrastructure, ...
As a public service, the IT team provides access to the
web site www.astro.oma.be. They also supply access to
the services provided by the different scientific
work groups ( NTP time server from the Atomic clocks,
Seismic charts, GPS data, Space weather, ..)
The IT Department also takes part in developments related
to scientific projects with international partners.
System administrators are regularly following training courses in order to maintain a top level of competence in various fields of technology.
The staff is composed by :
Coordinator
Fabian RoosbeekSystem administrators
David DuvalDavid Herreman
Andre Somerhausen
Katinka Vermeiren

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