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ScienceCloud User Guide

🔧 Under Development

This page is under active development. Content is being updated as we prepare the new version of ScienceCloud for production. Some sections may be incomplete or subject to change.

This part of the documentation details the ScienceCloud.

If you have no previous experience with cloud computing or remote server connections, we highly suggest that you enroll in one of the official Science IT ScienceCloud Trainings. Moreover, you can refer to the Training Handout as an introductory tutorial.

ScienceCloud Architecture

ScienceCloud is built on OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that provides scalable and flexible compute, storage, and networking capabilities.

What can you do with ScienceCloud and what restrictions are in place?

  • Every user belongs to a Project that normally corresponds to an existing UZH research group.
  • Every Project has a quota that limits the total amount of resources that can be allocated (e.g., instances, CPUs, memory, disk space, network IPs, etc).
  • All members of the same Project are accounted against the Project's quota.
  • All members of the same Project have control over each other's resources. In other words, every user can terminate someone else's instances within a given Project.
  • All Projects on ScienceCloud can access the same physical infrastructure underneath; if physical resources are exhausted, a Project will not be able to allocate new resources even if its actual usage is currently below its defined quota.