Balgrist Campus: cloud consulting for data-driven cutting-edge research

The Balgrist Campus is a charitable research institute specialising in musculoskeletal medicine. There, doctors, researchers and industry work under one roof to explore problems relating to the musculoskeletal system and develop new treatments. 

The research groups on the Balgrist Campus want to use the Google Cloud Platform, alongside the current on-prem services, for their experiments. The various groups have differing requirements in terms of the data and machine learning infrastructure needed in this respect. 

During its consulting mandate, Ergon hosted several cloud consulting sessions to note the requirements of the research groups, before showing how they could be met using the Google Cloud Platform. The topics covered by the mandate ranged from user & access management, billing, Kubernetes and serverless approaches through to data and MLOps concepts and pipelines. Ergon also ran training on the cloud, data and MLOps for the research groups. 

The success of the mandate was largely due to the pairing of industry best practices with the academic experience of the Ergon team.