Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

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Cloud Dataverse - A Faster Way to Process Data in the Cloud
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Cloud Dataverse is a new service for accessing and processing public data sets in an OpenStack Cloud. It is based on Dataverse, a popular framework for sharing, preserving, and analyzing research data. Cloud Dataverse extends Dataverse to replicate datasets from per-institution repositories to a cloud-based repository and store their data files in Swift, making data processing faster for in-situ application running in the cloud. Cloud Dataverse is a collaborative effort between two open source projects: Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) and Dataverse. Dataverse is being developed at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) with contributors worldwide providing 19 Dataverse repos hosting 60,000 datasets from 300 institutions deposited by 10,000 data authors.The MOC is a collaboration between higher education (BU, NEU, Harvard, MIT and UMass), government, and industry.Its mission is to create a self-sustaining at-scale public cloud based on the Open Cloud eXchange model

Wednesday, October 26, 12:15pm-12:30pm (10:15am - 10:30am UTC)
CCIB - Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona - P2 - P2 Corridor
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Tags: User Community Scientific Sahara UX Public Cloud
Piyanai Saowarattitada
Massachusetts Open Cloud
Piyanai Saowarattitada is the Director of Engineering & Infrastructure at the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC). Her first experience with OpenStack was back in 2012-13 during Folsom/Grizzly time frame where she led an effort to deploy a Quantum based private cloud for development at (then) HP Cloud services. She joined the MOC leadership team in January 2015 to lead a small team of... FULL PROFILE
Mercè Crosas
Chief Data Science and Technology Officer, IQSS, Harvard University
Mercè Crosas is the Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. She has more than 10 years of experience leading the Dataverse project and more than 15 years of experience building data management and analysis systems in biotechnology companies and academia. She is part of numerous committees and working groups... FULL PROFILE
Orran Krieger
Director of the Cloud Computing Inititive Boston University
Orran Krieger is the lead on the Massachusetts Open Cloud, Founding Director for the Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) at BU, Resident Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, and a Professor of the practice at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University. Before coming to BU, he spent five years at VMware starting... FULL PROFILE