Research

Hokkaido University Information Initiative Center has established the Hokkaido University Academic Cloud, one of the largest academic clouds in Japan, and provides cloud services to researchers nationwide, including those concerning virtual and physical machines and their cluster systems, high-speed high-capacity cloud storage services, and machine learning and big data processing systems for research and development. We are also promoting research on fundamental technologies to realize nationwide cloud system collaboration and system construction to support researchers. Specific examples include the development of infrastructure technologies for cloud collaboration (authentication collaboration, etc.) and the construction of a test system (Fig. 1), resource allocation optimization in an intercloud environment, and the realization of a large-scale design optimization framework on a nationwide scale by linking supercomputers and intercloud infrastructure (Fig. 2). We are also conducting joint research with universities, research institutes and companies across the country.