Austrian DataLAB and Services - Twopager

The project Austrian DataLAB and Services was kicked off in Juli 2020 and involves eight universities across Austria. The partners work jointly on establishing a federated Austrian-wide platform enabling collaborative data-intensive research and teaching. To foster adoption across a wide range of scientific disciplines, this platform is aimed to abstract the infrastructure and security concerns from the academic end-user.

Methods used:
• Open cloud standards are applied to establish blueprints for an Austrian cloud architecture, into which any academic institution may volunteer to join and contribute.
• Individual cloud pools are realized using the GAIA-X standard, thus allowing unified and efficient operations, exchangebility of cloud modules and extensibility of cloud components.
• The DevOps methodology is utilized to encourage rapid discovery and continuous learning as well as early accountability and ownership across a non-hierarchical open community of contributors.