Atlantic Cloud
A transatlantic computation network for data storage, high-performance computing, and web servers.
The Atlantic Cloud is a transatlantic computation network created, developed and operated by the AIR Centre associates. The nodes contribute to the pool of resources.
The Cloud counts with data storage, HPC (high-performance computing) and web servers and it increases the efficiency and effectiveness of scientific collaboration across the Atlantic.
Architecture
The Atlantic Cloud is a hybrid cloud solution that combines the benefits of on-premises infrastructure with public cloud services, offering a flexible and scalable IT environment for associates.
Infrastructure
Atlantic Cloud's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering is hosted in state-of-the-art facilities and managed by skilled IT experts across the associate nodes.
Services include:
- IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Earth Observation (EO) data
- API access
- Ocean modelling at supercomputer Escola de Sagres at IPRJ
Technologies include:
- Software-defined Object Storage (MinIO)
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Virtual Machines (KVM)
- Containers (LXC and Docker)
- 100 Gbps network core (data centre Azores)
- 355 Gbps network real speed within data centre in Azores
- Serial processing
- Parallel processing
- X86
- CUDA
