Rackspace Partners With The University of Texas at San Antonio To Build OpenStack-Based Software Platform
The initiative is designed to enable powerful computational research and new discovery.
Rackspace Hosting and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have designed, built, and deployed an advanced academic research software platform based upon OpenStack technologies. This new computational power resource has been designed to revolutionize the way scientists and scholars use technology to accelerate their research efforts.
Academic and scientific research typically involves the construction of mathematical and numerical models to solve scientific and engineering problems. Traditionally, these complicated and intensive computational models have been implemented on complex super computers or a high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure with high maintenance demands. With cloud computing, researchers are freed from managing IT equipment and can put greater focus on their research initiatives.