Category: MOC News

Red Hat Opens State-of-the-Art Facility in Boston

In early January, Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, and the Hariri Institute for Computing announced a groundbreaking partnership aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. During a five-year partnership, Red Hat will invest a total of $5 million in creating the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University (Red Hat […]

Institute Receives $1M NSF Grant to Deploy MPC within Cloud Dataverse

The Institute is pleased to announce it has received a $1M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a framework that allows for analytics to be performed over shared datasets while protecting the data, even from collaborators. Led by PI Mayank Varia, Co-Director of the BU RISCS Center, the project will integrate three […]

Cloud Computing Initiative Advances Research Model through Industry Engagement

More and more, the services and applications we use for communication, security, storage, analytics, and just about every other technological need are based in the cloud. For most users, that’s a vague term meaning “not housed locally.” For the researchers and engineers working with the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project and Red Hat Collaboratory, both hosted at Boston University, it’s a world of opportunity.

Institute Co-sponsors Cisco Lunch & Learn on Mar 9

Thursday March 9, 2017, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room. Please join us for a Lunch & Learn, hosted by JuanRamon Acosta, Principal Cloud Software Architect, Cisco Systems. The Industry Scholars Lunch & Learn is open to BU PhD students and postdocs.

Institute’s Cloud Computing Initiative to Host Red Hat VP of Management & OpenShift Engineering

Tuesday, February 7, 2017
1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
CGS 511
871 Commonwealth Avenue

The Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) of the Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting the first Red Hat Cloud Computing Colloquium Series talk.

Developing an Enterprise Scale Container Management, Orchestration, and PaaS with OpenShift
Matt Hicks
Vice President, Management and OpenShift Engineering, Red Hat

BU and Red Hat Announce $5M, 5-year Research Partnership

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, and BU’s Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), part of the Hariri Institute for Computing, are pleased to announce a new partnership aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. Red Hat is investing $5 million in a five-year partnership that will create the Red Hat Emerging Technologies Lab at Boston University (RHET Lab @BU).

Chris Wright, VP of Red Hat, to Give 1/25 Wed@Hariri Seminar

In collaboration with Boston University’s Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), the Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting Chris Wright, Vice President and Chief Technologist of Red Hat, for a Wednesday@Hariri seminar.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017;
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, networking and refreshments at 2:45 PM (with reception to follow the talk);
Hariri Institute for Computing

Hariri Hosts Second Annual Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop

On December 6th-7th, the Hariri Institute for Computing hosted the second annual Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop. Built upon a unique academic, industry, and government partnership, the MOC is comprised of deeply interconnected projects with the same goal: to develop an open, production-quality cloud computing system that enables research and provides leading-edge services for scientific computing. This year’s […]

Institute to Host 2nd Annual MOC Workshop

Tuesday & Wednesday, December 6 – 7, 2016; George Sherman Union, Metcalf Hall (2nd Floor)
The Institute is excited to host the second annual Massachusetts Open Cloud Workshop, scheduled to take place on December 6 – 7, 2016. Tuesday’s events will feature technical presentations, insights from MOC users, working group sessions and more; this will be open to all partners and interested parties that register to attend. Wednesday’s events will include an Expo, which will be open to all registrants, as well as additional meetings for project partners (invitation only).