Conveners
Using clouds - experiences and requirements from the community
- Nuno Ferreira (EGI.EU)
Description
This session includes presentations from various projects, communities and initiatives who have experimented with or examined the use and benefits of cloud services for scientific and training purposes. The talks will provide insights into the case studies, applications and pilots that scientific users integrated with academic clouds in Europe, and will include a presentation from the XSEDE project about their recent survey about their 'Cloud Use Survey'.
Mr
Alvaro Lopez Garcia
(CSIC)
9/18/13, 11:40 AM
While the requirements of enterprise and web applications have driven the development of Cloud computing, some of its key features, such as customized environments and rapid elasticity, could also benet scientic applications. However, neither virtualization techniques nor Cloud-like access to resources is common in scientic computing centers due to the negative perception of the impact that...
John Towns
(NCSA/Univ of Illinois)
9/18/13, 12:00 PM