Rackspace secures OCRE funding, provide AWS services for Virtual Aorta Project

Rackspace Technology announced assisting with securing OCRE funding and providing AWS SageMaker training and advisory services for the Virtual Aorta Project at the University of Galway in partnership with Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics. The joint project reduced the computational modeling process from approximately 150 hours to 10 minutes. The groundbreaking project is backed by Open Clouds for Research Environments, OCRE, funding. “Since January 2021, Rackspace has been a leading contributor in the European Open Science Cloud marketplace. Through the OCRE framework, Rackspace has provided AWS cloud services to research institutions, universities, and NREN members across Europe, aiming to boost cloud adoption and refine the tools available to the education and research communities,” said Donald Dunsmore, Director, Education and Research Sales. “With this powerful collaboration, Insight leverages AWS to expedite and streamline diagnosis, and Rackspace supports our customers from grant funding requests down to project completion.”