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The Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems , as a department of MTA SZTAKI, is a research laboratory in distributed grid and cloud technologies. LPDS is a founding member of the Hungarian Grid Competence Centre, the Hungarian National Grid Initiative, and the Hungarian OpenNebula Community and also coordinates several European grid/cloud projects.
The mission of LPDS is twofold. On one hand, we would like to provide efficient software development tools and high-level services together with customizable scientific gateways. On the other hand, LPDS is developing easy-to-maintain middleware solutions and technologies for interoperability that enables cost-efficient alternative distributed, grid, and cloud platforms for scientific and business applications.
LPDS laboratory, in cooperation with other departments of MTA SZTAKI, was involved in the development of the SZTAKI Cloud and takes part in more and more cloud-based projects. The LPDS cloud research is focusing on the field of Infrastructure as a Service -based cloud systems to make the previously evolved products and services of LPDS to be available for cloud-based execution in a scalable and transparent way.