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.