ILIFU

Big data is changing the face of research. Fields like astronomy and bioinformatics are leading the way in the management of enormous data sets containing some of the secrets of the universe and our DNA. To ensure that South African researchers can be global pioneers in the fields of astronomy and bioinformatics, a consortium of universities and research organisations have established a data-intensive research cloud, Ilifu - which means cloud in isiXhosa - and are inviting researchers in these two strategic science domains to start using the infrastructure... Ilifu is a regional node, known as a Tier II node, in a national infrastructure, and partly funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) through their Data-Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA)... Ilifu, a big data infrastructure for data-intensive research, enables South African researchers to be world leaders in the strategic science domains of astronomy and bioinformatics. Hosted at the UCT ICTS..

Primary location: South Africa