"Expansion and Enhancement of the Security of the Research Cloud of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences"
Program Name:
Investments in Science: 6.3 - Field of Exact and Natural Sciences/Mathematics
Project Name:
"Expansion and Enhancement of the Security of the Research Cloud of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences."
Funding Amount:
500,000.00 PLN
Total Investment Cost:
526,316.00 PLN
Brief Project Description:
The project aims to purchase virtualization servers and disk arrays for the needs of the IMPAN research cloud.
The investments are intended to ensure reliable and efficient infrastructure, necessary not only to maintain the high scientific and research potential of IMPAN, which has once again been evaluated as the best unit in the discipline of mathematics in Poland (consistently in category A+), but also to provide a foundation for its development in the coming years.
The IMPAN research cloud is a response to the IT infrastructure needs of IMPAN research teams, which, due to their specific nature, do not fall within the scope of services provided by KDM centers. The wide, interdisciplinary range of research conducted here requires appropriate support in terms of IT infrastructure. Therefore, for years, the Institute has been expanding and developing its internal research cloud to support the scientific activities and projects carried out at IMPAN. The need to protect intellectual property complicates the use of publicly available clouds as an alternative storage system.
The purchased virtualization servers will allow the deployment of approximately 50 virtual machines on each server, with software tailored to the needs of specific research teams working within IMPAN.
1. Replacing outdated and unsupported servers with new devices will maintain current services for research projects and open up new opportunities for expanding and developing IMPAN's research potential.
2. Research projects, particularly those analyzing or modeling data, require large disk spaces for both storing raw data and archiving research results. The currently available disk arrays do not offer the necessary performance and capacity, hence the need to expand the environment with additional arrays.