background The Computer Service Group of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany) runs the Institute‘s central mail, print, software, backup and web servers. The group is also responsible for nine servers providing department specifi c services and operates High Performance Computing Clusters. All these services are provided by Linux servers and computing nodes. In total, the group hosts 230 TB of data on their storage networks and runs about 300 computer nodes with 2500 cores. business challenge The main challenges for the group are to ensure the seamless online availability and the long-term achievement of scientifi c data. These tasks are described in the rules of good scientifi c practice of the Max Planck Society (MPS). solution The Institu

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