Cloud computing for e-Sciences at université Sorbonne Paris cité

Abstract

The present paper relates the involvement towards migration and adoption of cloud computing at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC), a major french consortium of universities and higher education and research institutes. Migration to the cloud for a wide and diverse community of actors is nevertheless not straightforward. The ambitious interdisciplinary program ‘Imageries du Vivant’ (IDV or ‘Life Imaging’) at USPC, a key program dedicated to the development and use of life and biomedical imaging, constitutes our use case. It allows to sketch how cloud computing may change scientific practices and the landscape of computing, and to specify the steps to be followed for such purposes. The outcome of the paper is a methodology for accompanying adequate technological choices and acceptance by the users of the cultural changes when they migrate to cloud technologies. In short, we provide useful guidance for cloud adoption based on observations made for the IDV project.