RACOON

The RACOON infrastructure is based on a Germany-wide server system with network nodes at all German university hospitals (RACOON-NODES). The infrastructure architecture represents a combination of decentralized and centralized components (RACOON-CENTRAL) to form a powerful overall concept. This provides both the advantages of a computing environment distributed at the locations of all university hospitals and the efficiency of a secure central environment. Further advantages of our architecture are the fast and secure start of operation of the individual network nodes and a flexible expandability of the overall system by means of its autonomous software modules.