Cloud Computing

Big data problems require the on-demand, high-performance computing resources offered by cloud systems. The Institute supports programs and initiatives aimed at delivering reliable, scalable, high availability cloud computing services to accelerate research goals.

BU AI Research Resource (BU-AIRR) Program

BU AI Research Resource (BU-AIRR) is a resource program established by the Office of Research and the Hariri Institute for Computing aimed at enabling and seeding large-scale AI research at Boston University by funding access to powerful production cloud resources of the New England Research Cloud (NERC). The 2024 BU-AIRR program awarded $290,000 to 26 AI research projects from 35 BU faculty members affiliated with six colleges and 13 departments. Funding was made possible through contributions from the Hariri Institute, the College of Engineering, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and the Office of Research.

Learn more about the program and award recipients here.

Our affiliate research teams are actively developing new cloud computing platforms to provide leading-edge services for scientific computing.

MOC Alliance: A regional structure, centered around The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), to create an open production cloud that provides domain researchers with predictable low cost resources and facilitator support while enabling academic researchers and developers in the open source community to participate in the kind of close interactions between research, development, and production operations that has resulted in so much innovation in today’s public clouds.

Red Hat Collaboratory: A partnership between Red Hat and Boston University, the Red Hat Collaboratory connects the BU community with industry practitioners and aims to advance research focused on emerging technologies, including cloud computing services.