HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
through the cloud Jisc’s Matthew Dovey discusses the importance of cloud computing and improving digital infrastructure
Enabling global research
Increasingly, research must handle more complex data at higher rates of production and consumption. Researchers require increasing computing power and sophisticated tools to help share, process and analyse data, across all disciplines – not just those traditionally associated with high-performance supercomputing. Improved digital infrastructures
are key to supporting researchers in their work. Cloud-based resources are an important element of these infrastructures and provide benefits such as increased collaboration. For instance, if multiple researchers from different institutions or even different countries are working on the same project, access to shared resources is essential. When resources are stored on a cloud platform, researchers can access these resources through their institution’s credentials, from wherever they are in the world.
European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) has the vision of providing a cloud platform to offer 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals across science, technology, the humanities and social sciences an open service for storage, data management, analysis and reuse of research data. The EOSC was first proposed in 2016 as part of the European Cloud Initiative to
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“Researchers can explore and experiment with new tools, technologies and computing platforms quickly, without large upfront financial and infrastructure costs”
build a ‘competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe’. The aim of the EOSC is to work across
borders and disciplines by federating existing data infrastructures dispersed across the EU, and will be a key pillar of
the new European Data Strategy. Jisc, alongside many other partners across Europe, has been participating in the projects and working groups defining the architecture and governance of EOSC. This approach to open research is
proving particularly useful during the current climate: led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the European Commission has launched European Covid-19 Data Platform explicitly for research into the disease, which will be a key component of the EOSC.
The platform contains data on
coronaviruses, including samples of Covid-19, which is regularly updated from international databanks. The cloud
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