Materials Cloud

Operator: Materials Cloud is operated by the Materials Cloud team.
Host: Materials Cloud is hosted at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. CSCS is an autonomous unit of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and closely collaborates with the local University of Lugano (USI).
Funding: Materials Cloud started thanks to funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and EPFL through the MARVEL National Centre of Competence in Research (MARVEL NCCR). Today, it has become a partnership between many consortia.

Virtual Hardware: Materials Cloud runs on the Kubernetes cluster at CSCS, which provides a framework for deploying containerized applications. The entire technical infrastructure of Materials Cloud is physically located on CSCS premises, with the exception of the Archive, which runs on a VM hosted on Microsoft Azure, see here for more information.
Data storage: Data uploaded to or generated in Materials Cloud is stored at CSCS in an S3-compatible object storage based on the Ceph Object Gateway.
DOIs: Materials Cloud partners with the ETH library, a founding DataCite member, to provide DOIs for Materials Cloud Archive records.

Infrastructure