[Qrowd] hardware infrastructure

[Daniel Hladky]

Jens,

We do not have large HW infrastructure. Whenever we need something we are
also renting servers (mainly in Germany through Ontos GmbH).
This means I could only add more costs for renting servers.

Cheers, Daniel

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Jens Lehmann <
lehmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I just made further checks on the proposal and one area which is not fully
> convincing yet is the hardware infrastructure. Since we want to run things
> at scale, it is clear that we need appropriate servers to do so. There are
> mainly two ways to achieve that: a) by declaring hardware costs or cloud
> usage costs in the budget or b) by declaring that existing infrastructure
> is contributed in the partner descriptions. At the moment, this is only
> partially done by some partners, so each partner should check whether he
> has the hardware (and also has this written down explicitly via a) or b))
> to run the proposed experiments and edit the partner profiles (now in Word)
> accordingly or let us know of budget changes. Note that we can only swap
> hardware for PMs at this stage as we are very close to 4 mio Euro (3.99).
>
> That issue is particularly important for the platform work package: It
> would be easiest if we can say that ENG (or Ontos?) is contributing
> large-scale infrastructure facilities (possibly with restrictions e.g. only
> for the runtime of the project, up to x million computing hours etc.) to
> the consortium. Otherwise, we would probably have to swap personal costs to
> hardware infrastructure / cloud costs for large-scale platform deployment
> and experiments. What are your thoughts on this?
>
> (I'm bringing this up as it makes the planning more convincing and it is
> something which reviewers can easily use to downgrade/filter proposals.)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jens
>
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