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Cloud Computing for the UK Research Community

28–29 Nov 2013
Francis Crick Institute
Europe/London timezone

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  1. 0. Workshop Introduction
    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
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  2. 1. Windows Azure for Research
    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...
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  3. 2. Confessions of a Cloud Builder
    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.
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  4. 3. Research Computing on Amazon Web Services
    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.
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  5. 10. Cloudy with a Chance of Rootkits - Assurance Requirements for e-Infrastructure Services
    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...
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  6. 11. Discussion
    28/11/2013, 16:45
    Discussion following from the presentations and an introduction to the Cloud-SIG and its objectives
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  7. 4. The EGI Federated Cloud, using standards to create a fair and open European Cloud marketplace
    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...
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  8. 5. Janet Cloud Services
    John Milner (JANET)
    29/11/2013, 09:30
  9. 6. Helix Nebula, the Science Cloud
    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.
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  10. 7. Virtualisation and Cloud Computing at EBI
    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...
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  11. 8. Software Defined Research Computing
    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.
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  12. 9. CERN Private OpenStack Cloud
    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.
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