EC plans European cloud platform for research data

Grazed from TelecomPaper. Author: Editorial Staff.

The European Commission has presented its first plans for digitising industry, as part of the Digital Single Market project. The first initiative to start this year is the creation of a European cloud platform for the scientific community, aimed at sharing research data and making the EU a world leader in high performance computing.

In 2016, a European Open Science Cloud will be set up for European researchers and their global scientific collaborators by integrating and consolidating e-infrastructure platforms, federating existing scientific clouds and research infrastructures, and supporting the development of cloud-based services. Next year, all scientific data produced by projects under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and development programme will be made available by default on the cloud platform, to ensure that the scientific community can re-use the enormous amount of data they generate…

From 2018, the focus will shift to high performance computing, with the launch of a flagship initiative to accelerate the development of quantum technology, which is the basis for the next generation of supercomputers. By 2020, the EC aims to deploy a large scale European high performance computing, data storage and network infrastructure. This will include the acquisition of two prototype next-generation supercomputers, of which one would rank among the top three in the world, establishing a European big data centre, and upgrading the Geant backbone network for research institutions…

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