Remote deployment (institutional)

What is this?

Institutional remote deployment gives researchers access to VMs or VREs through university or national research infrastructure channels, rather than unmanaged personal cloud setups.

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How it works (simple explanation)

You request access to remote compute resources through your institution or SURF-linked services. After approval, you deploy code and data to the environment and run workflows under governed conditions.

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Concrete examples (tools/platforms)

• SURF Research Cloud: National platform for creating and managing VMs and VREs with pre-configured environments and reproducible research workflows.

  • Apply for access through NWO computing calls
  • Direct access: available only through certain universities

• University-supported VMs and VREs (including both university-specific solutions and SURF Research Cloud-based solutions):

  • Utrecht University: Workspace catalogue

  • University of Amsterdam: Access via Research Support Portal (login required)

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • University of Groningen

  • University of Twente

  • TU Delft Cloud4Research

  • Eindhoven University of Technology

    • Supercomputing Center: M&CS Virtual Machines
    • PAR Solution Searcher: Compute

  • Wageningen University Geoscripting Guide

  • Maastricht University DSRI

  • Radboud University

  • Leiden University: Public overview describing Leiden’s VRE

  • Tilburg University

• SURF SANE (Secure ANalysis Environment): Secure VMs/VREs for sensitive data analysis (e.g., CBS microdata), with strict access controls.