HDF Cloud – Helmholtz Data Federation Cloud Resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre

The HDF Cloud is an OpenStack based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment operated by Julich SupercomputingCentre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Julich. It has been installed predominantly to support challenging data use caseswithin the Helmholtz Association’s strategic initiativeHelmholtz Data Federation (HDF). To this end, it has been connected to one of the central storage resources of JSC, the DATA filesystem that is also available on the high-performance computing systems.