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Exploring cloud computing for research: EPSRC and JISC pilot projects

Mr Matthew Dovey, Dr Daniel Emmerson, Dr Torsten Reimer

  1. Cloud technology has the potential for widening access to high-performance computational resources for e-science research, but barriers to engagement with the technology remain high for many scientists. Workfl...

    Authors: Stephen C Winter, Christopher J Reynolds, Tamas Kiss, Gabor Z Terstyanszky, Pamela Greenwell, Sharron McEldowney, Sandor Acs and Peter Kacsuk
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing 2014 3:1
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  2. Cloud computing infrastructures provide a way for researchers to source the computational and storage resources they require to conduct their work and to collaborate within distributed research teams. We provi...

    Authors: Alex Voss, Adam Barker, Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi, Adriaan van Ballegooijen and Ian Sommerville
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013 2:20
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  3. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) sector is a highly fragmented, data intensive, project based industry, involving a number of very different professions and organisations. Projects carried ou...

    Authors: Thomas H Beach, Omer F Rana, Yacine Rezgui and Manish Parashar
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013 2:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Urban flood risk modelling is a highly topical example of intensive computational processing. Such processing is increasingly required by a range of organisations including local government, engineering consul...

    Authors: Vassilis Glenis, Andrew Stephen McGough, Vedrana Kutija, Chris Kilsby and Simon Woodman
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013 2:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. The performance of Cloud systems is a key concern, but has typically been assessed by the comparison of relatively few Cloud systems, and often on the basis of just one or two features of performance. In this ...

    Authors: Lee Gillam, Bin Li, John O’Loughlin and Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013 2:6
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  6. We describe the research undertaken in the six month JISC/EPSRC funded My Private Cloud project, in which we built a demonstration cloud file storage service that allows users to login to it, by using their ex...

    Authors: David W Chadwick, Matteo Casenove and Kristy Siu
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013 2:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. In this paper we report upon the cloud-based solution that we designed and implemented for space situational awareness. We begin by introducing the background to the work and to the area of space situational a...

    Authors: Steven J Johnston, Neil S O’Brien, Hugh G Lewis, Elizabeth E Hart, Adam White and Simon J Cox
    Citation: Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications 2013 2:2
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