The webinar took place on 30th November 2017 watch the video here Presenter: Karl Podesta Azure Big Compute Technical Specialist, Global Black Belt Team, Microsoft Azure cloud computing is accelerating research globally by providing what you need, when you need it. An open, flexible, secure platform, supporting multiple programming languages, tools, and frameworks. Azure also brings true hyperscale, high performance computing (“Big Compute”) to everyone – making it easier to power simulations, complex calculations, get answers to solutions more easily. Karl joined Microsoft in 2016, previously 15 years as a Linux & HPC engineer, architect, trainer – supporting scientists in Oil & Gas, Financial, Life Science, and academic...
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GÉANT have announced a successful multi-year partnership with Microsoft to make powerful cloud computing environments more accessible to research and education communities across Europe.
HEAnet clients can access the GÉANT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) framework, which provides a digital single market for cloud services with procurement, contracting and integration already taken care of.
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10-14 June 2018 – Trondheim, Norway. TNC is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference, with more than 650 participants attending this annual event. TNC brings together decision makers, managers, networking and collaboration specialists, and identity and access management experts from all major European networking and research organisations, universities, worldwide sister institutions, as well as industry representatives. TNC18, its 34th edition, will be hosted by the Norwegian NREN UNINETT in Trondheim, Norway. Clouds are part of the cool edges of the network, and the use of clouds by the community is a topic of great interest. For more information and submission, go to the conference website:
Together with the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo, UNINETTs HE Cloud initiative (UH-sky) is working to demonstrate how scientists can make use of cloud based infrastructure. A large part of the work is based on the architecture developed for the Norwegian HPC company, UNINETT Sigma2. In the pilot project Researchlab, a standardized layer will be built over cloud infrastructure from different vendors, to enable the researcher to choose from a menu whether his application should run in a public cloud, on a common, national HPC infrastructure, or on-premise. – We’re collaborating with the universities of Bergen and Oslo to demonstrate how we can create a common market place, a sort of AppStore, where the universies can act as...
The UNINETT HE cloud initiative, UH-sky, together with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is looking into how public cloud solutions can be utilized within education. Talking to lecturers has made it clear that their needs can be filled by IaaS solutions. A pilot project called Edulab consists of a simple user interface, connected to a cluster of virtual machines in an IaaS solution. This is made available to a group of lecturers at NTNU. The user interface allows students access to learning resources approved by the lecturer, and ensures that costs are allocated to the correct course. Edulab gives the students increased freedom, within the framework set by the lecturer. Second year students are testing the solution...
Why the cloud? In a collaboration with the University of Agder, UNINETTs HE Cloud initiative (UH-sky) is exploring the possibility of moving all, or part of, the University data centre into the cloud, while maintaining robust and flexible service delivery within the University. Review process Different cloud solutions like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are being considered, and existing services are reviewed to determine whether they are suited for an IaaS platform, replaced by a SaaS service or should be kept on-premise for now. The University of Agder has taken a cautious approach, to be able to do cost comparison between existing and future cloud based solutions. IT-lab is an interesting project with the purpose of exploring whether we can move...
The Dutch NREN SURF, has made a presentation video for SURFcumulus, their HE hybrid IaaS solution, that can be seen on www.surf.nl. With SURFcumulus, an institution can move its data centre to the cloud easily and securely. SURFcumulus offers a wide range of IaaS services.
Many questions need to be addressed in relation to various aspects of cloud applications: strategy, procurement, migration, integration, organisational changes, legal issues, risk management and user management. SWITCH offers its knowledge on these topics to universities.
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Infrastructure as a Service, short IaaS, is a cloud computing solution that enables access to high performance computing resources in a virtualized environment.
An organisation can refer to RESTENA-IaaS for example when it has to punctually adapt its computing resources in the framework of a short term project, accelerate deployment works (f.ex. hosting a website) or if it wants to focus on its user needs and not on technical end resources (f.ex. in practical school exercises).
Read more at restena.lu.
AWS Cloud for Higher Education Whether you need to facilitate teaching and learning, better manage your university’s operations or access high-performance computing for demanding research projects, AWS has a solution. Instructors, students, researchers, IT staff and administrators can quickly and affordably access compute, storage and application services in the classroom, research lab, data center, and anywhere on campus. Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services are based out of 11 geographical regions across the world. Amazon, is offering IaaS services under the GÉANT Framework agreement through resellers:...
