For education - SWITCHengines

Then SWITCHengines can offer you the following benefits:

Giving access to VMs to a large number of students for interactive use at well defined times and costs
Simple administration and automated setup of a large number of students and/or VMs
Adaptive usage and charging model with no up-front investment
Cost limiting options for all resources used by students.

In addition you get the following advantages:

All data protected under Swiss law and located only in Switzerland within the academic community network
Full control by the institutions, including a flexible usage and charging model corresponding to the budgeting needs
Strong influence on governance via the SWITCH Foundation council
Direct backbone connection to the SWITCH network and data transfer as well as ingress/egress at no cost
Multi-year charging models with discounts

Please note that you are entitled to a special discount for education use in the above form.

Use Cases

"So today we need rather a lot of computing power. These compute tools need to be set up quickly and should easily and flexibly adapt to our changing requirements. And … our institution should approve the tools."
Tara Andrews, Professor of Digital Humanities

Machine Learning

SWITCHengines is particularly useful when much computing power is required for a short time period or when access to the da- ta/programs from different locations is needed...

Agile Performance

To deal with this vast amount of collected data we have decided to work also with cloud resources like SWITCHengines. With SWITCHengines we can set up a 1000 core cluster within a day, which is very fast...

Big Datasets

Out of curiosity, I wanted to compare the performance of our local hardware with a virtual environment like SWITCHengines. I expected SWITCHengines to be...

National Science

We decided to host this service for Swiss researchers and students that deals with Swiss geodata within the academic community in Switzerland. A project like this exceeds the interest of a single institution like the HSR...

Highend Teaching

We developed a novel and effective solution to bioinformatics training in collaboration with SWITCHengines, which provides the ideal infrastructure for our requirements due to its full “end- to-end” capability...

Virtual Classroom

SWITCHengines is perfect for us since it is unique in a way that it provides these computing tools directly to the researcher or the research department, has a transparent tariff and provides support for academic researchers...

Backup Copy to Cloud

To deal with this situation we decided to work with complementa- ry cloud resources instead of setting up our own storage system. With SWITCHengines we can now set up new large-scale storage resources for backups on demand in a second datacenter...

Storage Solution

For cost reasons and greater flexibility in scaling we wanted to move forward and find a solution that does not depend on enterprise hardware anymore. Also, we wanted to avoid the usual setup of a completely new hardware system...

Virtual Private Cloud

SWITCHengines is an extension of your existing data center with compute and storage infrastructure of makes is possible to use IP addresses of your own campus network for SWITCHengines VMs: SWITCHengines...

Choose your model

There are two billing models to choose from:

Either resources are billed “as you go”
or we provide multi year volume discounts for longer-term usage, such as for scientific projects or IT-services

For participating institutions, we combine the two models to provide discounts also if an institution uses a certain amount of resources cumulatively.