Azure 4 Research
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Automated testing using Drone
This is the first in a series of blog posts by the Research Software Engineering team at Imperial...
Date: 03/06/2018
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Understanding shipping behaviour with Microsoft Azure
Keeping track of global shipping has previously suffered from a lack of data. Current tracking...
Date: 12/12/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Getting started with AI and Machine Learning
We are on the verge of the biggest revolution in computing since Alan Turing formalised the concepts...
Date: 11/17/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Research data management and collaboration
Research is a collaborative endeavour, but it's not always easy to share data, workflows and...
Date: 09/14/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Real HPC with linear scaling on thousands of cores
If you need to run lots of computations, either as a large supercomputer simulation, or hundreds of...
Date: 08/01/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Learn how to use Microsoft Azure for research and data science
Cloud computing can provide almost every piece of computing and data capability that you may require...
Date: 06/20/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers - Cloud technology for high-energy physics computing
Randall Sobie is the HEP Computing Group Leader at the University of Victoria. He works on ATLAS...
Date: 06/07/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Parameter sweep computation made easy with Azure Batch
When you need to go from running on your laptop or desktop computer, to run dozens, or hundreds, of...
Date: 04/27/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – eBird big data analysis using Microsoft Azure
Citizen scientists all over the world have been helping the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to collect...
Date: 02/06/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – Azure IoT for Croke Park Smart Stadium
Using sensors in a busy environment, such as a sports stadium, can unveil deep insights to provide a...
Date: 01/31/2017
Cloud computing guide for researchers – get started in one hour
Microsoft Azure can help with almost any research computing task, due to its huge range of...
Date: 11/09/2016
Cloud computing guide for researchers - faster, better, more reproducible research
Wouldn't it be great if you had a time machine for your research? Or more realistically, access to...
Date: 10/18/2016
CLOUDMINE call for papers - deadline 12 August 2016
The CLOUDMINE workshop, co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining on Dec...
Date: 08/08/2016
Azure for Research training comes to Europe: 9-16 May 2016
Do you need a time machine for getting your research done faster? Then come along to our Azure for...
Date: 03/24/2016
Data Science for Researchers using Microsoft Azure
Data science is a huge topic, and requires a wide range of tools and services to cover the different...
Date: 12/07/2015
Getting started with Microsoft Azure for your research
There are so many ways that cloud computing can be used for research projects, it’s often hard to...
Date: 05/31/2015
Azure for Research updates – April 2015
The Microsoft Research team has hand selected the latest news about the Microsoft Azure for Research...
Date: 04/02/2015
How can technology help us to understand and manage disease?
The range of emotions that surface when we talk about diseases such as Ebola, Malaria and Polio is...
Date: 03/22/2015
Predictive models and Azure Machine Learning for EnviroHack 2015
Data, data everywhere, but what’s the use? There are great efforts across many research...
Date: 03/02/2015
Environmental Data and Services in the Cloud
There are several publicly available environmental data sources that you can use to build apps,...
Date: 02/26/2015
NoSQL in the cloud for researchers
There is a lot of excitement around NoSQL approaches for research applications across many different...
Date: 02/09/2015
Go faster on Azure with new D-Series virtual machines
Faster processors, more memory and SSD hard drives... The new D-Series virtual machines on Azure are...
Date: 09/25/2014
Azure for Research on Curah!
In pulling together some of the resources we have for the Azure for Research program – I decided to...
Date: 03/31/2014
Windows Azure training for researchers–Now available online
Today we’ve made online versions of the Windows for Azure training for researchers available to...
Date: 03/28/2014
Science in the Cloud: Building cloud virtual machines for research
Coming in March – there is going to be a special Azure for Research Request for Proposals – focusing...
Date: 02/07/2014
“Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” E-Book
Just saw the announcement of the e-book “Building Real-World Cloud Apps with Windows Azure” – a good...
Date: 02/04/2014
Cloud Design Patterns now available
Great news for folks looking for guidance on developing apps for the Azure Cloud – take a look at...
Date: 01/28/2014
Research Life Science Projects on the Windows Azure Cloud (Part 2)
Life sciences has been one of the most productive areas of research using cloud computing. There are...
Date: 12/06/2013
Research Life Science Projects on the Windows Azure Cloud (Part 1)
Over the last three years we have been helping researchers use the Windows Azure cloud platform to...
Date: 12/04/2013
Windows Azure for Research Award winners
The initial Windows Azure For Research awards have been awarded – check out the complete list – the...
Date: 11/08/2013
Windows Azure for Research–Accelerating Research in the Cloud
This past week Microsoft Research launched a new program Azure For Research – to help facilitate and...
Date: 09/14/2013