Resources

Links to reference material

• NREN Federations
• NREN Contacts
• NREN Conferences (as of Summer 2018)
• NREN Conference Call for Contributions (as of Summer 2018)
• Use Cases
  • “Spartan”, a Cloud-Hybrid Delivering Performance and Flexibility
• Research Clouds
  • Grid 5000
• Security
• Federations
  • OpenStack on the EGI Federated Cloud
  • Finnish and Nordic cloud federation 
  • Federation: The sound of inevitability
  • GEANT
  • EOSC – TBC
  • EGI FedCloud
• Identity
  • OpenIDConnect
  • Aspects of OpenID and OAuth
• Standards
  • Cloud APIs – OCCI7
  • Images – OVF8
  • NIST SP 500-292 – Cloud Computing Reference Architecture
  • NIST SP 500-293 – US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volume I: High-Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption
  • IEEE P2302 – Intercloud Interoperability and Federation
  • NIST and IEEE Team on Standards Development for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation
• Governance Models
  • NIST Global City Teams Challenge
• Funding Models
  • Public/Private Partnership/Funding Agency Solution Example – ESA & European Commission testing a model by funding a project called “DIAS” (project Copernicus — earth sciences)