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Swarmchestrate consortium, led by HUN-REN SZTAKI, launches joint effort to expand cloud computing under Horizon Europe Framework Program

Innovation
Science
08/13/2024 - 08:56
The EU-funded “Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum” (Swarmchestrate) project launched at the beginning of 2024. This spring, the HUN-REN SZTAKI lead consortium of 14 partners gathered in Budapest for their first face-to-face project meeting to discuss the working plan of the project that introduces a fundamentally new application management approach, and then signed the consortium agreement recently.

GreenDIGIT, a Horizon Europe project reducing environmental footprint launches with HUN-REN SZTAKI on board

Science
06/18/2024 - 10:29
Colleagues from the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems participated in the face-to-face kick-off meeting of the new Horizon Europe project, GreenDIGIT. The 36-month-long project aspires to lower the environmental footprint of Digital Infrastructures. The project's coordinator, the University of Amsterdam welcomed the 15-member consortium in Amsterdam and launched the project with an in-person meeting in spring of 2024.

Exploring Quantum Informatics, Cloud Technologies, and European DNS Resolution at Networkshop 2024

Science
04/19/2024 - 07:46
In April 2024, the 33rd Networkshop Conference took place in Eger at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. One of the distinguished sponsors of the event was HUN-REN SZTAKI. Several departments and research laboratories of HUN-REN SZTAKI were represented at the conference - the Department of Network Security and Internet Technologies, the Department of Distributed Systems, and the Parallel and Distributed Systems Research Laboratory. They delivered presentations and workshops on various topics.

European project focusing on strategic research infrastructures convenes in Budapest

Innovation
Science
04/15/2024 - 11:06
SLICES-SC consortium members gathered with Hungarian stakeholders in Budapest to discuss the working plan for the last period of the EU H2020 project. HUN-REN SZTAKI hosted partners from 10 European countries, working towards reinforcing the international research infrastructure community.

DIGITbrain passes EC review with flying colours

Innovation
Science
04/10/2024 - 12:59
The final accomplishments of the 42-month-long DIGITbrain project were presented during the EC review in Brussels. HUN-REN SZTAKI was among the main contributors who made this project a success that enabled Manufacturing-as-a-Service for several European SMEs.

Open Science, Open Data in Hungary conference organised by HUN-REN ARP Project members

Innovation
Science
11/27/2023 - 13:01
The conference titled Open Science, Open Data in Hungary – The First Two Years of HUN-REN ARP took place on 16 November 2023, and was hosted by the HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (HUN-REN SZTAKI). During this event, attendees had the opportunity to explore presentations covering the historical background, current status, and future prospects of the HUN-REN Data Repository Platform (HUN-REN ARP).

EGI Newsletter features Péter Kacsuk’s article about ELKH Cloud

Science
02/17/2021 - 11:42
The article, written by the head of Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, got featured in the February issue of the newsletter.

SZTAKI joined EGI

Innovation
Science
12/08/2020 - 09:10
Goal of the EGI Federation is to ship open and advanced solutions in the fields of computing and data analysis for international research and innovation. To achieve this, the Federation combines the infrastructure, services and proficiency of its members, covering as many fields as possible, while also supporting cooperation abroad.

SZTAKI held a successful profession day about ELKH Cloud

Innovation
Science
12/04/2020 - 08:34
SZTAKI, Wigner Research Centre for Physics and Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH) held its professional gathering titled “ELKH Cloud in service of science: past, present, future” on Zoom and Youtube due to the pandemic on the 28th of October 2020.

Beginner’s course about ELKH Cloud getting huge attention

Innovation
Science
Society
11/04/2020 - 15:59
On the 22nd of October 2020, SZTAKI’s researchers held a beginner’s course about the research and science cloud service ELKH Cloud in front of more than 120 attendees, gaining a huge amount of attention. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, visitors joined online.

SZTAKI was involved in the development of Hungary’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Government
Science
Society
11/04/2020 - 15:48
Work on Hungary’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy is finished, announced László Palkovics, minister of innovation and technology on the 8th of September 2020.

Improved version of Occopus has been released

Innovation
01/18/2016 - 10:44

The new, significantly improved version of Occopus has been released.

Occopus can be used by application developers and application controllers to manage virtual infrastructures at deployment time and at runtime as well as to create and provide complex virtual infrastructures to be built by one click even by novice cloud users.


It has the following  new features :

First official release of Occopus

11/18/2015 - 14:27

SZTAKI is happy to announce the first official release of Occopus  which is a framework that provides automatic features for configuring and orchestrating distributed applications (so called virtual infrastructures) on single or multi cloud systems.

Occopus can be used by application developers and application controllers to manage virtual infrastructures at deployment time and at runtime as well as to create and provide complex virtual infrastructures to be built by one click even by novice cloud users.

European Commission recognizes the ICT innovation from a SZTAKI coordinated project with the highest potential

Science
07/15/2015 - 13:01

The CloudBroker platform, as the output of the SCI-BUS project has been ranked as no.

SZTAKI Szótár has received Lifetime Achievement Award

Society
11/08/2012 - 14:54

SZTAKI Szótár has received Lifetime Achievement Award in the „Excellent Hungarian Online Content eFestival 2012” competition, organized by Informatika a Társadalomért Egyesület (Association of Informatics for Society). The Award Ceremony was held on November 7, 2012 in Balatonfüred, in the frame of Info Tér Conference. Prominent representatives of the Hungarian Content Industry honored the activity of MTA SZTAKI Department of Distributed Systems (MTA SZTAKI DSD) led by dr.

SCI-BUS, SHIWA, EDGI joint Summer School on Workflows and Gateways for Grids and Clouds

05/25/2012 - 08:37

We are happy to announce that Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems will host a joint summer school between 2nd - 6th July, held in Budapest, Hungary. Three current FP7 projects - SCI-BUS, SHIWA and EDGI - will organise this workshop on workflows and gateways for grids and clouds. The goal of the school is to show various aspects of user support for the European grid and cloud infrastructures.