An Update on the Münster University Cloud - technical architecture and user adoption

10 pages•Published: January 13, 2025

Abstract

Initially starting with a now widely adopted but in scope quite narrowly focused sync & share cloud storage service (named sciebo.nrw) in 2015, Mu ̈nster University expanded the scope of on-premises higher education and research cloud services to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in 2016 with the plan for an open-source based platform for research data storage and processing using state-of-the-art cloud technology. After forming a multi- university consortium, developing a project plan, acquiring funding from the North Rhine- Westphalia (NRW) state ministry of science (MKW) and conducting the procurement, the Uni Cloud took off in 2019 and has since gained a very wide adoption amongst university researchers at the University of Mu ̈nster, with 5.5 Petabyte of user data stored. It is now a core element of the e-Science services of the university and the platform of choice for large scale research undertakings (especially in collaborative research centers) and innovative IT services (like Gitlab, GitOps, UniGPT, JupyterHub, etc...).

Keyphrases: ceph, kubernetes, on premises cloud infrastructure, openstack, research data management

In: Raimund Vogl, Laurence Desnos, Jean-François Desnos, Spiros Bolis, Lazaros Merakos, Gill Ferrell, Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis (editors). Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens, vol 105, pages 126-135.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/NJC3
	https://doi.org/10.29007/dd24

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{EUNIS2024:Update_Münster_University_Cloud,
  author    = {Raimund Vogl and Markus Blank-Burian},
  title     = {An Update on the Münster University Cloud - technical architecture and user adoption},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens},
  editor    = {Raimund Vogl and Laurence Desnos and Jean-François Desnos and Spiros Bolis and Lazaros Merakos and Gill Ferrell and Effie Tsili and Manos Roumeliotis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {105},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/NJC3},
  doi       = {10.29007/dd24},
  pages     = {126-135},
  year      = {2025}}

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