About the PDC Cloud
The PDC Cloud compute and storage platform is currently being established. Pilot testing of the initial stages of the cloud is underway.
What is the PDC Cloud?
The PDC Cloud is a secure computation and storage platform that can be used for research, either on its own or together with the Dardel HPC system at PDC.
The PDC Cloud is being established in several stages. The first stage of the cloud offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the form of Virtual Machines (VM) of different sizes and operating environments. It will also include a large-scale storage system with user interfaces that will make it easier to share research data in accordance with the FAIR principles, which aim to ensure that data is “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable”. (This is in contrast to the technology used for Dardel’s parallel file system, Lustre, which is designed for fast data access to optimise computational performance.) The plan is for more types of services, such as container runtime environments, to be added to the Dardel Cloud in the future and for the cloud storage to be extended.
