Cloud Computing

Big data problems require the on-demand, high-performance computing resources offered by cloud systems. Our research teams are actively developing new cloud computing platforms to provide leading-edge services for scientific computing.

Related Initiatives

MOC Alliance: A regional structure, centered around The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), to create an open production cloud that provides domain researchers with predictable low cost resources and facilitator support while enabling academic researchers and developers in the open source community to participate in the kind of close interactions between research, development, and production operations that has resulted in so much innovation in today’s public clouds.

Red Hat Collaboratory: A partnership between Red Hat and Boston University, the Red Hat Collaboratory connects the BU community with industry practitioners and aims to advance research focused on emerging technologies, including cloud computing services.