Cloud computing: facilitating cutting edge collaborative research
June 27, 2014
Grazed from Cordis. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cloud computing – where storage facilities are provided on demand over the internet from shared data centres – enables effective research collaboration to blossom. Rather than having to purchase a cluster of computers or struggle to find space at the lab, researchers can outsource their computing storage needs to remote facilities in the cloud and make this data accessible to colleagues.
In order to facilitate closer research collaboration, an EU-funded project entitled HELIX NEBULA (HNX) has created an online platform where customers can choose between various cloud service suppliers. The ultimate objective of the project, which was completed in May 2014, is to enable researchers and scientists to buy, use and manage cloud services as seamlessly as possible…
The team behind the project believes that cloud-based services could become a billion-euro business in the near future, helping researchers make savings of up to 40 % in infrastructure costs. Indeed, the project, which began in June 2012 with EUR 1.8 million in EU funding, anticipated that data capture, processing, and storage – crucial to scientific endeavour – were being overtaken by the demand for greater efficiency, speedier results and the increasing need for greater international collaboration…
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