{"id":6406,"date":"2017-11-28T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:18:15","slug":"research-councils-uk-cloud-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6406","title":{"rendered":"Research Councils UK Cloud Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"label-primary\">The RCUK Cloud Working Group are hosting their 3rd free annual workshop in January 2018 and I&#8217;ll be attending.\u00a0 At the time of writing, there are still places left and <strong>you can sign up at<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/research-councils-uk-cloud-workshop-tickets-39439492584\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/research-councils-uk-cloud-workshop-tickets-39439492584\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"label-primary\">From the event\u00a0advertisement:<\/p>\n<div class=\"has-user-generated-content js-d-read-more read-more js-read-more read-more--medium-down read-more--expanded\" data-xd-wired=\"read-more\">\n<div class=\"js-xd-read-more-toggle-view read-more__toggle-view\">\n<div class=\"js-xd-read-more-contents l-mar-top-3\" data-automation=\"listing-event-description\">\n<p>This workshop will focus on key areas to address in order for the potential of cloud computing for research to be fully realised:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tackling technical challenges around the use of cloud: for example, porting legacy workloads,\u00a0scenarios for hybrid cloud, moving large data volumes, use of object storage vs. POSIX file systems.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud as enabler for new and novel applications: e.g. use of public cloud toolkits and services around Machine Learning, AI, use of FPGAs and GPU based systems, applications related to Internet of Things and Edge Computing<\/li>\n<li>Perspectives from European and international collaborations and research programmes<\/li>\n<li>Policy, legal, regulatory and ethical issues, models for funding &#8211; case studies for managing sensitive or personal data in the cloud<\/li>\n<li>Addressing the skills gap: how to educate researchers in how to best take advantage of cloud; DevOps and ResOps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> To give a flavour, you can read about\u00a0<em>last<\/em>\u00a0year&#8217;s workshop\u00a0<a title=\"RCUK Cloud Workshop 2016\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.ac.uk\/2017\/03\/20\/cloud-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0or look at the\u00a0<a title=\"RCUK Cloud Workshop 2016 Programme\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.ac.uk\/workshops\/nov2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">programme<\/a>\u00a0from last time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCUK Cloud Working Group are hosting their 3rd free annual workshop in January 2018 and I&#8217;ll be attending.\u00a0 At the time of writing, there are still places left and you can sign up at\u00a0https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/research-councils-uk-cloud-workshop-tickets-39439492584\u00a0\u00a0 From the event\u00a0advertisement: This workshop will focus on key areas to address in order for the potential of cloud computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-hpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1Fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}