We are very excited to announce that our annual workshop will be taking place February 28 and 29, 2024 at the Boston University George Sherman Union!
The MOC Alliance provides a structure for a set of interrelated projects that have grown up around the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). These projects include production cloud services (NERC, NESE, OSN) for domain researchers that are operated and facilitated by university research IT, a national testbed for cloud research (OCT), projects to enable scientific and medical researchers (Biogrids, ChRiS), projects to engage the open source (OI labs, Operate First) and system research (Red Hat Collaboratory, i-Scale) communities.
The workshop will bring together our unique community of Research IT, researchers, users, and industry to celebrate what has been accomplished and help define the MOC Alliance strategy moving forward. In addition, it will showcase how the Alliance is so much more than the sum of its parts. Sessions will cover research that was motivated by experience with a real cloud, the impact research has already had on upstream open source projects, and how some of these projects are starting to impact services that are part of the Alliance.
Travel details can be found below. This page will be updated with new details as we get closer to the event, so make sure to check back for exciting announcements!
Travel:
Boston University George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Accessible by the MBTA Green Line – “B” Line to Boston College, get off at Boston University Central.
Paid parking available at 766 Commonwealth Ave.
Recommended Hotels:
Hotel Commonwealth (0.5 miles from Boston University)
500 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Residence Inn Boston Back Bay/Fenway (0.4 miles from Boston University)
125 Brookline Ave
Boston, MA 02215
The Verb Hotel (0.6 miles from Boston University)
1271 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215
The Eliot Hotel (0.8 miles from Boston University)
370 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
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