Conveners
Session 3A: Cloudy with a chance of research
- Richard Jonathan (TENET South Africa)
Session 3A: Cloudy with a chance of research
- Richard Jonathan (TENET South Africa)
Description
Cloudy with a chance of research:
Within the enterprise, cloud is rapidly becoming the norm. However, the availability of on-demand storage and compute creates both opportunities and challenges for researchers, and for the institutions they belong to. How are researchers using cloud in your institutions? What problems has it created? And how do we overcome those?
Room Location: Auditorium, Lower Floor
The increasing adoption of cloud technologies in research cyber-infrastructures, including commercial clouds (Azure, GCP, AWS), research-oriented clouds (CHPC’s Sebowa cloud and Ilifu cloud facility), and private cloud environments, has enabled greater flexibility and scalability in the industry and academia.. We present the use of Kubernetes and Cloud resources in the ongoing African Pathogen...
UK and US studies show that research software underpins ninety-five percent of research. Thirty-three percent of international research produces new code. However, research software is still not recognised as a first-class research output, and the researchers who develop it often find themselves in dead-end career paths.
In 2012, research software engineers in the United Kingdom embarked on...
The South African Dialogue Facility programme recently supported two policy dialogues on open science hosted by the Department of Science and Innovation with the aim of strengthening science diplomacy between South Africa and the European Union. The most recent project conducted from 2021-2022 informs the development of a South African Open Science Cloud (SAOSC) to provide the research...
The IDIA Science Gateway was recently launched at https://gateway.idia.ac.za/ to provide a unified access point to IDIA / ilifu cloud resources for Astronomy and Bioinformatics. While the underlying resources have been in production for several years, the overall system is in constant development. This provides a glimpse of things to come in data-intensive research in the era of Global Open...
Luci Abrahams (PhD), LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Co-author: Mark Burke, LINK Centre
Abstract (from Working Paper)
The presentation will briefly set out the logic, argument and considerations with respect to creating digital research infrastructure (DRI), building on the intentions and focus of the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (SARIR). In the...
