
2023 MOC Alliance Workshop
The is a RHR partner event. Please visit the 2023 MOC Alliance event page for the latest information.
The MOC Alliance provides a structure for a set of interrelated projects that have grown up around the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). These projects include production cloud services (NERC, NESE, OSN) for domain researchers that are operated and facilitated by university research IT, a national testbed for cloud research (OCT), projects to enable scientific and medical researchers (Biogrids, ChRiS), projects to engage the open source (OI labs, Operate First) and system research (Red Hat Collaboratory, i-Scale) communities.
The workshop will bring together our unique community of Research IT, researchers, users, and industry to celebrate what has been accomplished and help define the MOC Alliance strategy moving forward. In addition, it will showcase how the Alliance is so much more than the sum of its parts. Sessions will cover research that was motivated by experience with a real cloud, the impact research has already had on upstream open source projects, and how some of these projects are starting to impact services that are part of the Alliance.
A conference schedule, registration form, and travel details can be found below. This page will be updated with new details as we get closer to the event, so make sure to check back for exciting announcements!
Register here: https://forms.gle/q858M68o3ndvgrsz6
Schedule:
Monday, March 20
8AM – 9AM – Check-in and Breakfast
9AM – 5:30PM – MOC Alliance Project Updates, Panel Sessions, Keynotes, Birds of a Feather Discussions & Networking Opportunities
Tuesday, March 21
8AM – 9AM – Check-in and Breakfast
9AM – 5PM – Research Talks & Demonstrations and Tutorials of MOC Services
6PM – 7:30 PM – Reception and Networking
Location and Travel:
Boston University George Sherman Union (2nd floor ballroom)
775 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Accessible by the MBTA Green Line – “B” Line to Boston College, get off at Boston University Central.
Paid parking available at 766 Commonwealth Ave.