Red Hat Colloquium: “Software-Configured Compute Environments”, Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)

Wednesday, November 14th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Ulrich Drepper Engineer, Office of the CTO at Red Hat   Software-Configured Compute Environments Abstract: Hardware and software environments are designed as a compromise between many different requirements. This sacrifices performance, among other aspects, while […]

Red Hat Colloquium: “Chameleon: New Capabilities for Experimental Computer Science”, Kate Keahey (University of Chicago)

Thursday, November 8th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Kate Keahey Senior Fellow Computation Institute, University of Chicago   Chameleon: New Capabilities for Experimental Computer Science Abstract: Computer Science experimental testbeds allow investigators to explore a broad range of different state-of-the-art hardware options, assess scalability […]

Red Hat Colloquium: “Networking as a First-Class Cloud Resource”, Rodrigo Fonseca (Brown University)

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Rodrigo Fonseca Computer Science, Brown University Networking as a First-Class Cloud Resource Abstract: Tenants in a cloud can specify, and are generally charged by, resources such as CPU, storage, and memory. There are dozens of […]

Red Hat Colloquium: “The Future of Enterprise Application Development in the Cloud”, Mark Little (Red Hat)

Thursday, October 4th, 2018, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM refreshments & networking at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Mark Little VP of Engineering, Red Hat The Future of Enterprise Application Development in the Cloud Abstract: Since the dawn of the cloud, developers have been inundated with a range of different recommended architectural […]

Red Hat Collaboratory and BU Spark! Land BU on the US News Most Innovative Universities List

In an acknowledgement of Boston University’s continued rise as a top institution for innovation, it has been placed for the first time on the 2019 edition of US News & World Report’s Most Innovative Colleges list. The recognition comes after US News conducted a survey in which college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans were asked to nominate institutions […]

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 […]