NII Research Cloud General Information

Introduction

This page provides an overview of the NII Research Cloud and introduces the application process.

NII Research Cloud is a service for the inside of NII.
Only NII researchers, staff, co-researchers can use it (Fee-based service).

If you are planning to use the research cloud, or those already using it,
please refer to these steps to apply for membership in the user group(NII Research Cloud General Information space on Gakunin RDM).

If you are already a member of that group, click here.

If you have any question about the Research Cloud, please contact with following email address.

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What is the Research Cloud?

The Research Cloud is a cloud service that allows you to rent out physical machines and treat them just as if they were machines in your own research laboratory segment. Because the service works by loaning out actual physical machines, it enables users to avoid problems such as virtualization overhead as with virtual machines, or reduced performance due to the sharing of computational resources with other users.

Because hardware is managed by the cloud’s administrators, there is no need to monitor or handle of disk breakdowns or memory faults. (In the event of a fault or breakdown, the administrators may halt operation of your machine or have you transfer to another machine as necessary.)

As the Reserch Cloud, there are multiple cloud computing system based on Openstack.

• 3rd generation “Academic Baremetal Cloud” : ABC Region One/Two, ABC2

Physical machine spec seat used in Research Cloud