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Posts about new Renku features, platform design, reproducibility in data science, solutions to engineering challenges, and Renku use-cases.

Streamlining data delivery: How ETHZ SwissCAT+ uses Renku to let clients focus on science, not setup

· 3 min read
Erwin Lam
Senior Scientist, ETHZ SwissCAT+
Kourosh Shariat
ML Engineer, ETHZ SwissCAT+
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

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As one of the projects within the first SDSC national call, ETHZ SwissCAT+ teamed up with the SDSC to utilize their Renku platform to unite data, code and compute in their OpenCatData project. In this blog post we describe how ETHZ SwissCAT+ fully utilizes the features that Renku offers to augment how data can be effectively shared across different parties.

Renku Hops Across Clouds

· 3 min read
Rok Roškar
Renku Team Lead

On August 21, our team executed a major maintenance on our production cluster running at renkulab.io - the entire platform was moved from the servers in Switch Engines to its new home in the Microsoft Azure Switzerland-North datacenter. This was a major operation that took many weeks to plan and in the end resulted in just a few hours of downtime - a huge congrats to our operations team on making everything work so smoothly!

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Renku 2.0 is Here!

· 4 min read
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

We're thrilled to announce that Renku 2.0 is now officially launched! We've rebuilt our platform from the ground up with a fresh approach to collaborative research computing, and we're excited to share what we've created.

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