European Union · Government of Romania · Structural Instruments 2014-2020
“Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava

The Cloud USV Centre

An interdisciplinary research, development and innovation centre for Cloud and massive data infrastructure: compute, storage and IaaS · PaaS · SaaS services for researchers, academic staff and students.

8Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 servers
40 Gbpsend-to-end connectivity
3service layers IaaS · PaaS · SaaS
30IoT and extended reality devices
Illustration: a cloud with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS layers above server racks
Two parts, distinct roles

Today's centre and the project that created it

The Cloud USV Centre is the research infrastructure in operation today. Project SMIS 124530, completed in 2023, is the EU-funded investment through which the centre was established.

Cloud Centre · operational

The Cloud USV Centre

A hybrid hardware and software infrastructure available to the academic community and its partners.

  • IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud services for research projects
  • High-availability compute and storage for Big Data
  • IoT and extended reality platform (HoloLens 2, EEG, motion capture)
  • Integrated into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) portal
Completed project · 2021–2023

Project SMIS 124530

“Interdisciplinary R&D&I Cloud Centre and massive data infrastructure at Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava”.

Programme
COP 2014-2020, Axis 1, Action 1.1.2
Period
01.09.2021 – 31.08.2023
Total value
4,991,731.03 RON
Funding
ERDF and Government of Romania
Services

A local research cloud with standard interfaces

The centre provides, locally, functionality similar to public platforms (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform), with the same kind of API and management interfaces, close to the research teams.

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

Automated, scalable work environments as virtual machines that can use part or all of the hardware resources.

PaaS

Platform as a Service

The infrastructure applications need is provided and managed automatically.

SaaS

Software as a Service

Applications run over the Internet, with nothing to install on each device.

Illustration: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS service layers
Fields of use

For research and education

The available applications can be used in current fields of interest, including but not limited to:

  • Big Data
  • E-learning
  • Open source
  • Social media
  • CRM
  • Process management
  • Document management
  • Databases
  • E-commerce
  • Marketing & customer support
  • Webmail
  • Software development
Collaborations

Connected to the European research ecosystem

Cloud USV is integrated into the European Open Science Cloud portal and works with ASSIST Software to interconnect computing resources on a global scale.

European Open Science Cloud ASSIST Software
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Illustration: Cloud USV connected to EOSC, ASSIST Software, public clouds and research teams

Need cloud resources for research?

Contact the centre team for information about access to the infrastructure and services.

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