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Description
SURF Research Cloud is a national portal in the Netherlands where you can easily build a virtual or digital research environment (DRE). You can use pre-configured workspaces and datasets or add them yourself. Institutions, research communities, and suppliers can contribute to Research Cloud's functionality and catalogue by integrating their computing and data services. The portal abstracts access to both infrastructure, such as virtual machines running in private or public datacentres, but also "Above-the-Net" applications, such as JupyterHub or SURF Research Drive. We will showcase the current state of development, using a SUNET PoC-tenancy in the SURF Research Portal, instantiating infrastructure and applications in SUNET-operated datacentres, as well as connections to Sunet Drive.
The collaboration between SURF and SUNET was initiated as part of the GÉANT Innovation Programme in 2025 as a broader initiative to help other NRENs to discuss how national solutions like Research Cloud could be implemented for their own research communities, delivering convenient and sovereign DREs.
