  The Target infrastructure has been specially built as a storage and compute
infrastructure for the information systems derived from Astro-WISE. This
infrastructure will be used by several applications that collaborate in the
area of information systems within the Target project. It currently consists of
10 PB of storage and thousands of computational cores. The infrastructure has
been constructed based on the requirements of the applications. The storage is
controlled by the Global Parallel File System of IBM. This file system takes
care of the required flexibility by combining storage hardware with different
characteristics into a single file system. It is also very scalable, which
allows the system to be extended into the future, while replacing old hardware
with new technology.
