Microsoft Research grant for Azure cloud resources for research from Russia opened
Opened acceptance of applications for a grant for the Azure cloud for scientific research. It will last until August 15, 2015, and within the grant - about 200,000 hours of computing, 20 TB of storage and access to services such as ML, HDInsight (Hadoop & Spark), etc.
For example, Ilya Serykh from the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Shirshov , who won the Skolkovo Science Focus , uses the Azure cloud, chaos theory and climate models, and plans to prove that it is realistic to predict the climate. This requires calculations that last up to several months; Requires reliable and powerful resources, which will be taken in the cloud.