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The article, written by the head of Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, got featured in the February issue of the newsletter.
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, 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.
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.
Work on Hungary’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy is finished, announced László Palkovics, minister of innovation and technology on the 8th of September 2020.

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 :

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.

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

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.

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.