Flexible High Performance Cloud
Programmable infrastructure for research data collaboration
Flexible and high performance, NeSI's cloud platform:
- supports cloud native services on open source container platform Kubernetes
- leverages the open source and open standards OpenStack private cloud framework
- accommodates high-performance workloads
- enables autonomy and resilience through being a locally owned and sovereign platform
- demonstrates partnership-led approaches to enabling Māori data sovereignty
- maximises opportunities for shared investment and benefits at national scale, including dedicated hardware tenancies with deep local integration
- supports multiple models of consumption and integration, including on-demand access to shared service
- provides equitable access to cloud technologies and services tailored to research
- contributes to building sector capability and opportunity to benefit from the digital agility of cloud
Underpinning this platform is a collaborative culture and values, supporting national research communities and missions.
Features
NeSI's Flexible High Performance Cloud offers infrastructure services including:
Compute: flavours of hardware and operating platforms to support a range of workloads and services
Storage: block and object storage options
Networks: private, public, and hybrid networks connected in to REANNZ and allowing for deep local campus integration
Hosting: owned and operated by New Zealand research institutions, this is a local platform operating under New Zealand sovereignty
Case Studies
- Advancing the wellbeing of Aotearoa New Zealand through co-designed solutions
- Building a treaty-compliant data archive for New Zealand's taonga species
- New partnership will model a shared approach to building national capability in computational science
Status
This new platform is being developed in phases based on agile and lean-startup principles, supporting iterative development and delivery of value alongside continuous discovery and learning.
- 2022-2023 : Initial platform build and validation with early tenants
- 2023-2024 : Second phase of tenants; platform scaling
- 2024-2025: Wider sector adoption
Early partners are working closely with NeSI, forming joint teams and working openly towards collective goals. If this sounds like you, reach out for a chat - support@cloud.nesi.org.nz.
