{"id":7113,"date":"2024-11-12T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:37","slug":"school-of-computer-science-invests-in-openstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/school-of-computer-science-invests-in-openstack\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Computer Science invests in OpenStack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        School of Computer Science invests in OpenStack\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/OpenStack-gpus-800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the tremendous growth in computer science the School of Computer Science has made a notable investment in the OpenStack cloud platform. OpenStack is used by some SCS courses to provide students with their computing needs. Upper year courses have the option of learning to program OpenStack GPU servers. This year students can utilize the RTX 2019 Super cards, or can program on NVIDIA Titan V, or Geforce 1080 Ti cards. GPU servers can be used to train Artificial Intelligence models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The schools OpenStack compute servers have increased to more than 1,000 vCPU&#8217;s, and over 6 TB of combined RAM capable of launching approximately 4,000 virtual machines. Researchers have embraced OpenStack and added their own compute and GPU servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition the school has invested resources to upgrade the OpenStack software and hire a permanent staff member to help in its operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the tremendous growth in computer science the School of Computer Science has made a notable investment in the OpenStack cloud platform. OpenStack is used by some SCS courses to provide students with their computing needs. Upper year courses have the option of learning to program OpenStack GPU servers. This year students can utilize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-announcements","category-technicalsupport"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}