Philip Kershaw
(STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
28/11/2013, 14:00
* Welcome to the Crick Institute from Alison Davis (ICT Director)
* Introduction to the workshop, Philip Kershaw
Dr
Kenji Takeda
(Microsoft Research)
28/11/2013, 14:15
Windows Azure is an open and flexible global cloud platform supporting any language, tool, or framework, and is ideally suited to researchers’ needs across disciplines. The Windows Azure for Research program provides researchers with a variety of tools and resources to help them use Windows Azure to access the power of cloud computing for on-demand computation, collaboration, and...
Adam Ryan
(Q Associates)
28/11/2013, 14:45
An open and frank recount of the challenges faced by Cloud providers in meeting the varied requirements of Cloud consumers, from the technical challenges through to the operational alignments with clients from different market sectors and how with the latest technologies can solve many of the issues that existed with Cloud 1.0.
Chris Hayman
(Amazon Web Services)
28/11/2013, 15:45
In this session I'll describe some of the building block services available through AWS that can be leveraged to enable greater agility and speed in delivery of Research outcomes.
Martin Hamilton
(University of Loughborough)
28/11/2013, 16:15
The Higher Education sector has recently benefited from substantial government investment in e-Infrastructure services for use by research and industry, such as the regional supercomputing centres. This talk will look at the steps the sector needs to take to create trustworthy services that our R&D partners in industry will be happy to use, drawing upon Martin's experience running the HPC...
28/11/2013, 16:45
Discussion following from the presentations and an introduction to the Cloud-SIG and its objectives
Dr
David Wallom
(Oxford e-Research Centre)
29/11/2013, 09:00
The EGI Federate cloud has been active for two years, within that time it
has moved from an idea on how using standards you can build a federation
of private and smaller public cloud providers to an activity that is
currently connecting national cloud services within three countries
alongside smaller clouds from elsewhere. It has also bought the EGI its
first commercial resource provider...
Dr
Francesco Casu
(CNR)
29/11/2013, 10:00
Helix Nebula, the Science Cloud initiative is a Partnership between big science and big business to implement the Strategic Plan for a Scientific Cloud Computing Infrastructure in Europe. The presentation is about HN objective, strategic plan, final goal and the present implementation status.
Steven Newhouse
(EMBL-EBI)
29/11/2013, 11:00
The European Bioinformatics Institute (part of the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory) runs four data centres that supports the production
of diverse genomic databases and delivers these databases through its
web interfaces to over 3M unique visitors each year. The presentation
will provide an overview of how virtualisation is used to manage the
data centres and this technology is now being...
Arash Ghazanfari
(VMware)
29/11/2013, 11:30
The presentation will focus on the enhancement that VMware technology can
bring to high performance computing through pooling of resources,
proactive management, automation and consumerisation of IT assets.
Jan van Eldik
(CERN)
29/11/2013, 12:00
CERN IT is providing an OpenStack private cloud for its experiments as well as for individual users. Since Summer 2013, the service is in production, and we are growing it rapidly.
We will present details about our cloud use cases, the production deployment and an outlook for 2014.
