4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop at Boston University
Tuesday, October 30 & Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Metcalf Hall, 2nd Floor of the George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Avenue The 4th Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop will be held on Tuesday, October 30 & Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at the Metcalf Hall at Boston University. The workshop welcomes users of the MOC, researchers and […]
BU Leaders in MOC and RedHat Help Boston Children’s Hospital Improve Patient Outcomes
Orran Krieger, BU lead on the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), has seen open cloud services provide advantageous opportunities for companies to innovate and manage at the infrastructure level. While Krieger acknowledges the heavy financial burden of a private cloud on not-for-profit universities, with the cost of purchasing their own equipment being much lower than the large capital investment […]
Red Hat Teams Up with Boston Children’s Hospital, UNICEF
Red Hat lends a hand with researching imaging data from MRIs through the Mass Open Cloud for the Boston Children’s Hospital, working with images stripped of identification. Red Hat Engineering Director and BU Research partnership leader Hugh Brock, however, believes that finding solutions that allow research to work with private data is going to be vital to the future of […]
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
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
Orran Krieger Speaks at Intel Cloud Day 2016
On March 31, Orran Krieger, MOC PI, presented at Intel’s Cloud Day 2016. His talk, Massachusetts Open Cloud, provided an overview of the project and its vision. The talk was preceded by an Intel Chip Chat interview, Driving Innovation and Exploration with the Massachusetts Open Cloud (Intel Chip Chat 454). Intel is a Core Industry Partner of […]