Building a Cost-Effective Cloud Computing Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research

This talk will focus on the design of a university cloud computing system implemented at NC State. Operational data over the past five years will be presented, showing how the integration of teaching and research computing in a cloud architecture serves the educational and research missions of the university in a more economical and cost-effective manner than if each were supported separately. Some of the opportunities to enhance this coherent campus cyberinfrastructure and the challenges of expanding cloud computing architectures across multi-institution environments will also be discussed.