Big Data and Cloud Computing
3-6 June 2013 Maastricht, Netherlands
The TERENA Networking Conference (TNC) is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference – over 500 participants including decision makers, networking specialists and managers from all major European networking and research organizations, universities, worldwide sister institutions and industry representatives attend. A Lightning Talk, presented by Dr. Julio Ibarra, on the Open Science Data Cloud Partnership for International Research and Education (OSDC-PIRE) Automated Provisioning in Cloud Computing using only open source applications was provided on June 3rd,2013. The talk entitled, “From bare metal to a compute or storage cloud” can be downloaded here. (NSF Award #1129076)
The TERENA conference features keynote speeches by renowned specialists and many parallel sessions. The Conference presents an overview of the latest developments in research networking, both in the technical field and in the areas of application and management.
The TNC2013 was hosted by SURFnet, the Dutch National Research and Education Network in the picturesque city of Maastricht. The Treaty signed in Maastricht on February the 7th 1992 has made the city famous as the birthplace of the European Union and the single European currency, the euro. The Treaty has made Maastricht a symbol for Europe. SURFnet connects institutions in the Netherlands and the rest of the world via NetherLight (the international lightpath node in Amsterdam), AMS-IX (the world’s largest Internet node), and the GÉANT network (the pan-European communications infrastructure). AMPATH, the International Exchange Point in Miami has a connection at AMS-IX. SURFnet will be
