MOC Alliance News
Call for Mentors for Boston University Cloud Computing Class Fall 2025
We are once again seeking mentors for our Fundamentals of Cloud Computing course at Boston University, offered this Fall semester (September 3 – December 20, 2025). Our goal is to finalize the list of student projects as soon as possible. About the Course Those of you who have participated before can probably skip to the last…
Now Available on the NERC: NVIDIA H100 GPUs for Cutting-Edge Computational Research
The New England Research Cloud (NERC) is thrilled to announce the launch of ultra-powerful NVIDIA H100 80GB GPUs—now accessible through our OpenShift and OpenShift AI (RHOAI) platforms! Whether you’re developing advanced AI models, running large-scale simulations, or exploring the frontiers of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), these cutting-edge GPUs are designed to enhance…
$100 Million State AI Investment
Access to massive-scale compute, large diverse data sets, AI tools, and AI models can play a fundamental role in addressing poverty, inequality, access to healthcare, climate change, education, and many other global challenges. We’re excited to help provide these resources for the recently announced Massachusetts AI Hub, which will serve as a nexus of AI…
Announcing BU-AIRR Award Recipients
We are excited to announce that the BU AI Research Resource Program (BU-AIRR) has awarded 35 BU faculty members across six colleges and 13 departments funding to use our New England Research Cloud (NERC). Almost $300,000 worth of funding has been provided to these faculty through contributions from the MOC Alliance, the Hariri Institute for…
Geospatial Infrastructure Enhancement: Leveraging the New England Research Cloud (NERC)
Project Team: Devika Jain, Jeff Blossom, Ben Lewis, Xiaokang Fu, Jack Hayes, Haoyu Wang, Wendy Guan In the rapidly evolving field of geospatial big data, the demand for robust infrastructures capable of handling big data while ensuring cost efficiency and performance has become paramount. The Geospatial Infrastructure Enhancement project, led by the Center for Geographic…
Measuring and Predicting Impacts of Geological Events on the NERC
Written by Ken Rudolph On April 3rd, 2024, Taiwan experienced a 7.4 magnitude earthquake—the largest in 25 years—which triggered landslides and multiple aftershocks, some of which reached a magnitude of 6.4. This quake occurred on a reverse fault, which happens when a quake lifts one side of the Earth’s crust relative to the other, moving…
News Archive
- What’s new in Massachusetts computing infrastructure research? – May 1, 2022
- Expansion of Collaboratory Announced at Red Hat Summit – April 27, 2021
- OpenInfra Labs Partner OpenStack Foundation now Open Infrastructure Foundation; expands mission, scope and community – October 19, 2020
- UMass Amherst Engineer Michael Zink Leads Research Team Developing New Cloud Computing Platforms, University of Massachusetts, Callahan, Patrick, October 15, 2019
- BU ECE Professors Orran Krieger and Martin Herbordt Awarded $1.4M to Develop New Computing Testbed, Boston University, Stacy, Jennifer, November 13, 2019
- The Future of Cloud Computing is a Better, Faster Cloud, Northeastern University, Wallau, Ruby, December 2, 2019
Additional coverage of MOC Alliance news can be found here.
MOC Alliance Announcements
MOC Alliance-Hosted Project Featured in Red Hat Blog
MOC Alliance partner Red Hat recently announced the MOC Alliance-hosted Griot and Grits Project, an open-source project developed in collaboration with cultural experts, educational leaders, and institutions to leverage the power of AI and open-source to preserve Black history that would otherwise be lost. Read the full story on the Red Hat Blog by clicking…
MGHPCC Receives $16 Million to Deploy Neutral Atom Quantum Computing Complex
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has received nearly $5 million from the state of Massachusetts and $11 million from QuEra Computing to create a natural atom quantum computing complex. The MOC Alliance is proud to be able to make the quantum computer accessible to academic researchers in the open-source community through the…
IBM and Meta Launch the AI Alliance with MOC Alliance as Founding Member
December 5, 2023 By Margo Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing In a joint announcement this morning, IBM and Meta launched the AI Alliance, an international community of leading technology developers, researchers, and adopters collaborating to advance open, safe, responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance, housed at the Boston University Hariri Institute for Computing and…
The New England Research Cloud (NERC) is now available!
The MOC Alliance, housed at Boston University, is pleased to announce that the New England Research Cloud (NERC) is now generally available for research and education users. NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC has recently added 80 more…
Fundamentals of Cloud Computing Mentor and Project Request
We are once again looking for mentors for our cloud computing course, which is being offered at Boston University this fall semester, (September 5 through December 21). We hope to have the final list of projects available to students by September 12. If you are an industry professional who is interested in proposing a project…
MOC Alliance Announces its First Distinguished Fellow Larry Rudolph
We are excited to announce Larry Rudolph as the first Distinguished Fellow of the Mass Open Cloud Alliance (MOC Alliance). Larry has had a significant influence on the MOC since its inception, pushing the project to adopt unique values and strategies that would be of benefit to both industry and the academic research community. The…
MOC’s Michael Daitzman to Keynote at Open Infrastructure Summit
Boston University’s Michael Daitzman, Director of Engineering and Product, Mass Open Cloud (MOC), will be giving a keynote on OpenInfra Labs (OIL) – a new OpenStack Foundation (OSF) project launched in collaboration with the MOC – at the virtual Open Infrastructure Summit, hosted by the OSF, October 19 – 23. The Summit features keynotes from open source leaders and innovators and over 100…
Fundamentals of Cloud Computing Mentor and Project Request
Students and alumni of Fundamentals of Cloud Computing at BU and Northeastern, (now known as CS/ECE 528 and CS 6620) and members of the MOC Community – Please consider proposing projects for the course starting this fall. Mentors are the backbone of the course, and people that have taken the course have turned out to…
MOC User Survey: Action Requested
The following message is for all users of the MOC. Due to the success of the MOC, Boston University and Harvard University are creating a production cloud service, the New England Research Cloud (NERC), supported by the professional Research Computing Services staff from those universities. We expect that this production service will enable a significant…
20202 Open Cloud Workshop Follow-Up: Ways to Get Involved
Despite the period of uncertainty since the workshop, we have continued planning and building on the momentum from the two days we got to spend with many of you in early March and we look forward to working with you in the coming weeks and months on the initiatives discussed in the workshop. This email…