Clouds for scientists from Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research announces the launch of an international competition for Azure for Research grants . Scientists who work on socially significant projects in computer science, physics, chemistry, medicine, geology, ecology, genomics and other fundamental disciplines can become participants in the competition. Winners will have the opportunity to use Microsoft Azure features for free throughout the year.
The application for a grant should contain a brief description of the project indicating the necessary computing power and resources for storing data. Suggestions for any areas of research are welcome. Special attention is paid to the projects, the result of which can be a service or a service demanded by the scientific community. Also it is planned to accept applications for participation in additional competitions in selected areas of cloud research. Possible topics include data services for collective research, processing of data flows in the clouds, machine learning in the cloud, high-resolution image analysis, environmental studies, astronomy, genomics, social sciences. The results of the competition will be announced on October 15.
“The work of the participants in the Microsoft Azure for Research competition will be judged by two key parameters — their ability to deploy to Microsoft Azure and how it can speed up the research process,” said Daron Green, director of regional research at Microsoft Research. “The Microsoft cloud platform allows you to manage data of any size and extract new knowledge from it, which can be the basis for new, grandiose scientific discoveries.”
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The group of scientists of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of General Genetics named after. N.I. Vavilova RAN. Microsoft Azure allowed to streamline all the available data from many years of research by Russian and foreign geneticists studying the causes and development of Alzheimer's disease and other genetic diseases. According to scientists, the provision by Microsoft of a grant for the use of Microsoft Azure facilities fundamentally changes the speed and depth of research carried out by scientists.
For more information on Microsoft Azure for Research, visit research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure . You can send a request at www.windowsazurepass.com/research . The name of the file with the text of the application must begin with the letters RUS (so that projects can participate in the competition of applications from Russia). Questions on Azure for Research can be sent to Elena Pavlova at v-elpavl@microsoft.com.
The application for a grant should contain a brief description of the project indicating the necessary computing power and resources for storing data. Suggestions for any areas of research are welcome. Special attention is paid to the projects, the result of which can be a service or a service demanded by the scientific community. Also it is planned to accept applications for participation in additional competitions in selected areas of cloud research. Possible topics include data services for collective research, processing of data flows in the clouds, machine learning in the cloud, high-resolution image analysis, environmental studies, astronomy, genomics, social sciences. The results of the competition will be announced on October 15.
“The work of the participants in the Microsoft Azure for Research competition will be judged by two key parameters — their ability to deploy to Microsoft Azure and how it can speed up the research process,” said Daron Green, director of regional research at Microsoft Research. “The Microsoft cloud platform allows you to manage data of any size and extract new knowledge from it, which can be the basis for new, grandiose scientific discoveries.”
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The group of scientists of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of General Genetics named after. N.I. Vavilova RAN. Microsoft Azure allowed to streamline all the available data from many years of research by Russian and foreign geneticists studying the causes and development of Alzheimer's disease and other genetic diseases. According to scientists, the provision by Microsoft of a grant for the use of Microsoft Azure facilities fundamentally changes the speed and depth of research carried out by scientists.
For more information on Microsoft Azure for Research, visit research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure . You can send a request at www.windowsazurepass.com/research . The name of the file with the text of the application must begin with the letters RUS (so that projects can participate in the competition of applications from Russia). Questions on Azure for Research can be sent to Elena Pavlova at v-elpavl@microsoft.com.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/225337/
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