2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients
By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]
IBM and Meta launch the AI Alliance with MOC Alliance as a Founding Member
By Margaret Stanton The MOC Alliance at the Boston University Hariri Institute has become a founding member of the AI Alliance, an international community of leading technology developers, researchers, and adopters collaborating to advance open, safe, responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim of the AI Alliance is to foster an open community and enable developers […]
New England Research Cloud’s Affordable Production Cloud Services Now Available to General Research and Education Users
By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance announced the opening of the New England Research Cloud (NERC) to general research and education users. The NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC […]
Hariri Institute publishes FY23 Annual Report
By Hariri Institute Staff The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce the release of our FY23 Annual Report! The report highlights the many significant and impactful accomplishments of our multidisciplinary community, consisting of 400 faculty affiliates and including thought leaders, problem solvers, scholars, and pioneers. They are leveraging the full power of computing, computational, and […]
Hariri Institute Community Recognition Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 Hariri Institute Community Recognition Awards! This inaugural program recognizes Hariri Institute personnel whose contributions have been instrumental in helping to bring success to their team and to our organization. This program also aims to raise awareness of the important work that transpires, at all levels, within the Institute and […]
“Do what excites you, and good things will happen”
BY GINA MANTICA Orran Krieger’s career has focused on solving challenging computing problems that impact society. Nearly ten years after he first had the idea for creating a truly “open” production cloud, Krieger’s vision has transformed into reality: a community of researchers, engineers, and information technology (IT) professionals are all working together to accelerate the […]
MGHPCC Article Highlights Mass Open Cloud Research on COVID-19
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) made an announcement last month of allowing outside researchers to access it’s high speed computing systems to facilitate the process of resolution of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The blog gives a brief overview on the computing capacity of the state-of-the-art infrastructure that MGHPCC has. It also talks about […]
Red Hat VP Chris Wright Speaks at the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop
About the Speaker Chris Wright, the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Red Hat, was the Keynote Speaker at the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop, held this past March at the George Sherman Union on the campus of Boston University. Chris’s responsibilities at Red Hat include incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking perspectives on […]
Collaboration Awarded an NSF Grant of $5M to Create New Cloud Computing Testbed
Last month the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a significant grant to a team of researchers from Boston University, Northeastern University and UMass Amherst. The grant will support the development of a testbed for new cloud computing platforms that will enable data science research to expand and explore new areas of interest. The total award […]
Hariri’s Research Project Received AI servers from IBM
Earlier this Summer, IBM donated new enterprise AI servers to the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a sponsored research project at the Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University. The servers were installed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). Michael Daitzman, Director for the Red Hat Collaboratory at the Hariri Institute said, “The […]