Red Hat Research Quarterly
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Clouds on the horizon: shared cloud computing resources make research more accessible and more powerful
An interview with Mike Zink.
Volume 3, Issue 4 • ISSN 2691-5278
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Hugh Brock
If you take a moment to look at open source – the process, the language and ways of thinking involved, the legal framework – you will quickly realize that it is quite similar to the model for the free advancement of knowledge and thinking that the world’s universities have developed over the last thousand years. […]
In industry, companies establish open source program offices (OSPOs) to mitigate potential legal risks, improve engineering practices, and enable financial benefits. OSPOs are also proving to be important in research university settings, although—not surprisingly—for different reasons. The primary aim of an academic OSPO is to advance the institution’s goals, which typically include education, research, and serving […]
Masaryk University (MU) presented the 2021 MUNI Innovation Awards at its Business Research Forum on November 11, 2021. These awards recognize individual students and staff whose research has been successfully implemented in practice, helped to improve products or services, or in some other way enhanced the social relevance of MU research. Awards went to seventeen […]
Solutions addressing climate change, food and water scarcity, and racial justice are among the Call for Code challenge winners. For the last four years, IBM has issued a challenge to the world’s software developers to design and build applications that would have an impact on a global environmental or social issue using open source software. […]
Funding recipients will study AI in cloud operations, hardware stack innovations, performance improvements, and more. The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University recently announced the recipients of its first-ever Research Incubation Awards. Reviewers from BU faculty and Red Hat selected sixteen proposals to fund, including one large-scale, multi-year project and another five smaller-scale projects that […]
Dr. Michael Zink is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to publishing and teaching, Dr. Zink has participated in several projects providing distributed systems and virtual networks for research and education, including GENI and ExoGENI (2007-2021), Cloud Lab (2014-2021), and now the Open Cloud Testbed (OCT) since […]
Daniel Bachar
Is there a way to implement load balancing in multicluster environments that won’t increase resource usage? New research suggests the answer is yes. Multicloud providers and microservice-based applications across clouds are becoming increasingly popular. Organizations that use them enjoy the benefits of high availability, performance improvements, and cost effectiveness. However, as microservices communicate with each […]
Operations are attracting increased attention in the open source community, and the open source ethos is evolving to embrace it. The focus of open source was initially on the code. Over time, however, the health of communities creating that code and associated artifacts such as documentation has also become an open source issue. The approach […]
Jennifer Wood
Universities play a primary role in developing data skills, but traditional education alone can’t close the skills gap fast enough. The mismatch between the widespread need for strong data skills and the current workforce is an obstacle for nearly every sector of the economy, which means no single sector can solve it. Collaborative partnerships among […]
Matej Hrušovský
Collaboration between industry and academia has become a popular talking point in tech, but that wasn’t always the case. When Red Hat Czech took the first steps towards supporting PhD students directly, this type of funding and mentorship was not common. The initiative began in 2015, in cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk […]
Each quarter, Red Hat Research Quarterly highlights new and ongoing research collaborations from around the world. This quarter we highlight collaborative projects in the greater Boston area of the United States. Contact academic@redhat.com for more information on any project described here, or visit the Red Hat Research Project Directory on our website. There are many […]