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Mass Open Cloud

The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) is a public cloud being developed based on the model of an Open Cloud Exchange (OCX), a model where many stakeholders, rather than just a single provider, participate in implementing and operating the cloud. Hosted at Boston University, the project is a unique collaborative effort between higher education, government, non-profit entities, and industry, including academic partners Boston University, Northeastern, MIT, Harvard, and the University of Massachusetts.

Primary goals are:

  • To create an inexpensive and efficient at-scale production cloud utility suitable for sharing and analyzing massive data sets and supporting a broad set of applications.
  • To create and deploy the OCX model, enabling a healthy marketplace for industry to participate at all levels in the cloud and profit from doing so.
  • To create a testbed for research in and prototyping of cloud technology, empowering a broad community of researchers, open-source developers, and companies to develop new cloud computing technologies.

 

Research projects
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This... A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Higgs Boson Spotted in Holyoke?
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
All Research Projects

Collaborative projects
Ask.CI
Open Storage Network
CAREERS Cyberteam
Connect.ci
Northeast Research and Education Network
Eastern Regional Network
Campus Champions
Commonwealth Computational Cloud for Data-Driven Biology
AI Jumpstart
New England Research Cloud
Red Hat Collaboratory
The US ATLAS Northeastern Tier 2 Center
Open Cloud Testbed
Northeast Storage Exchange
Northern Crossroads
UMass NET
Internet2
Energy Science Network
Northeast Cyberteam
FABRIC Testbed
Campus Research Computing Consortium
Satori
Northeast Big Data Hub
Covid-19 HPC Consortium
MGHPCC Supercloud
Mass Open Cloud
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ALL Collaborative PROJECTS

Outreach & Education Projects
Holyoke Codes
CSTA - Western MA
Girls Inc. Eureka!
Equity in Computing Education Policies, Pathways, and Practices
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