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Google Cloud Next 2025: Innovation at Scale ✨

· 4 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

Last week at Google Cloud Next representing our CIROH cloud-based computing efforts! With more than 30,000 participants, Google Next always amazes me! It's huge, engaging on so many levels! Engaging booths, networking opportunities, great presentations, workshops, AI coach for basketball, incredible keynote from an amazing team! Event was not just a conference, but a celebration of innovation and a glimpse into the future of cloud computing! Great to see how Gemini is transforming data manipulation in BigQuery. The ability to use natural language to query, transform, and visualize data is revolutionizing how we interact with massive datasets. Gabe Weiss's demo particularly showcased the potential for non-specialists to derive insights from complex data.

If you missed the keynote, I highly recommend watching the recording here: GCN25 Keynote Video

📢 Google Distributed Cloud: Bringing Gemini On-Premises

Perhaps the most exciting announcement was that Gemini is now available on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud. This is a game-changer for organizations with strict data sovereignty requirements or specialized computing needs. Running on NVIDIA Confidential Computing and NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure, this solution brings together:

  • Cutting-edge AI innovation
  • Robust data sovereignty controls
  • Enterprise-grade security

This addresses the most significant barriers many organizations face when adopting advanced AI capabilities. Learn more about this integration here: NVIDIA and Google Cloud Partnership

📢 Infrastructure Advances: Power to Transform

The infrastructure announcements were equally impressive, with serious power upgrades including:

  • Ironwood TPUs offering massive acceleration for machine learning workloads
  • NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs providing unprecedented computing power
  • Rubin GPUs extending capabilities for specialized workloads

These hardware innovations will enable entirely new classes of applications and make existing workloads significantly more efficient.


Check out all the online content that's now available, including:


📢 Agent Development: The Next Frontier

What particularly caught my attention was Google's focus on agent development technologies:

  • google-adk: The Agent Development Kit makes building multi-agent applications accessible to developers without deep AI expertise. Learn more
  • A2A (Agent-to-Agent Communication): The frameworks for agent-to-agent interaction open up possibilities for complex automated workflows that were previously impossible. Explore A2A or jump straight to the quickstart code samples
  • Agentspace: This collaboration environment for multiple agents feels like the beginning of something truly transformative. Check it out

Final Thoughts

As I reflect on my time at Google Cloud Next 2025, I'm struck by how the landscape of cloud computing and AI is evolving faster than ever. The convergence of powerful infrastructure, sophisticated AI models like Gemini, and new paradigms for agent-based computing signals a fundamental shift in how we'll architect and manage enterprise systems in the coming years.

I left the conference not just with new knowledge but with a renewed sense of excitement about the possibilities ahead. The future of cloud computing isn't just about faster or cheaper computing resources—it's about fundamentally new ways of solving problems and creating value.

#GoogleCloudNext25 #CloudAdvocate #AI #A2A #VertexAI #GoogleDistributedCloud #DevOps #EnterpriseArchitecture

🌟 UA's Alabama Water Institute Showcases 30-Minute Hydrological Modeling Revolution🌟

· One min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

🌍 AWI News

The Alabama Water Institute (AWI) at the University of Alabama (UA) recently published an article highlighting how NextGen In A Box (NGIAB) could transform hydrological modeling. This article provides great insight into NGIAB's real-world impact:

  • 🚀30-minute setup vs days/weeks of configuration
  • 📖 Provo River Basin Case Study demonstrating rapid deployment
ngiab image

➡️ Read the full press release here!

Pennsylvania State University Researchers Leverage CIROH Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Hydrological Modeling

· 3 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect
Yalan Song
Research Assistant Professor
Tadd Bindas
Graduate Researcher

Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers have been leveraging CIROH Cyberinfrastructure to tackle complex hydrological modeling challenges. This post highlights their innovative approach using the Wukong computing platform in conjunction with Amazon S3 bucket storage to efficiently process and analyze large-scale environmental datasets. 🚀

CIROH at AGU 2024

· One min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

AGU24 brought together the world’s leading minds in Earth and space sciences. CIROH participated actively, showcasing advances in water prediction, modeling techniques and many more technologies.

Presentations and Posters 📊

The conference provided an excellent platform for CIROH researchers to present their groundbreaking work. Our team delivered impactful presentations and poster sessions highlighting CIROH’s innovative work, including advancements in water prediction systems and community water modeling.

These sessions sparked thought-provoking discussions and fostered collaborations with other researchers. For those who missed it, posters and presentation slides are now available here. Feel free to explore these materials and share your thoughts. 📝

CIROH Science Meeting 2024

· 3 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

The 2024 CIROH Science Meeting was a huge success, bringing together researchers, federal partners, and consortium members both in person and virtually. We're excited to share the valuable resources from this year's meeting with the wider CIROH community.

Slides and pictures from the various sessions, keynotes, and the Federal Town Hall have all been uploaded to a shared drive for easy access. You can find links to these materials here: Access the Shared Drive with Presentation Slides

Accessing National Water Model (NWM) Data via Google Cloud BigQuery API

· 3 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect
gcp architectrure diagram Image Source: https://github.com/BYU-Hydroinformatics/api-nwm-gcp

Several important historical and ongoing National Water Model (NWM) datasets are now available on Google Cloud BigQuery, which makes them queryable through SQL using Google Cloud console. Some of these data sets are also accessible through an API (e.g. using Python). These datasets and their current status are as follows:

ProductCloud Console SQLCIROH APIHistoricalDaily Updates
Medium-range forecastsXXXX
Long-range forecastsXXXX
Analysis and AssimilationXXXX
Retrospective Data (NWM v3)XX
Return PeriodsXX

CIROH Research CyberInfrastructure Update

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

We're excited to share some recent developments and updates from CIROH's Research CyberInfrastructure team:

Cloud Infrastructure

  • CIROH's Google Cloud Account is now fully operational and managed by our team. You can find more information here.
  • We're in the process of migrating our 2i2c JupyterHub to CIROH's Google Cloud account.
  • We've successfully deployed the Google BigQuery API (developed by BYU and Google) for NWM data in our cloud. To access this API, please contact us at ciroh-it-admin@ua.edu. Please refer to NWM BigQuery API to learn more.

CIROH Developers Conference 2024

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

CIROH Developers Conference 2024

DevCon2024

The CIROH team recently participated in the 2nd Annual CIROH Developers Conference (DevCon24), held from May 29th to June 1st,2024. The conference brought together a diverse group of water professionals to exchange knowledge and explore cutting-edge research in the field of hydrological forecasting.

Monthly News Update - February 2024

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

Welcome to the February edition of the CIROH DocuHub blog, where we bring you the latest updates and news about the Community NextGen project and CIROH's Cloud and on-premise Infrastructure.

Our team has been hard at work enhancing CIROH's Infrastructure and Community NextGen tools. Here are some highlights from February 2024:

  1. We successfully launched our new On-premises Infrastructure, which is now fully operational. You can find documentation for it here.

Welcome DocuHub's Blog

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

Adding posts

What file name to use?

DocuHub will extract a YYYY-MM-DD date from many patterns such as YYYY-MM-DD-my-blog-post-title.md or YYYY/MM/DD/my-blog-post-title.md. This enables you to easily group blog posts by year, by month, or to use a flat structure.