EU to build €6.7B Europe-wide science cloud
April 21, 2016
Grazed from ScienceBusiness. Author: Eanna Kelly.
The EU is to spend €6.7 billion on a “science cloud” to provide computing power and data storage, giving the continent’s 1.7 million researchers access to a virtual environment to store, share and re-use their data across disciplines and borders. The results of future Horizon 2020 projects would be go to the cloud "by default", said Commissioner for Research, Carlos Moedas.
Of the €6.7 billion, about €2 billion will come from the Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation, with the remainder coming from sources of financing at EU and national level, and from industry. A pilot platform will start at relatively small at €50 million. Only researchers involved in the pilot organisations will have access at first, but ultimately it will be made open to everyone…
By 2020, the cloud would also link in two prototype next-generation supercomputers, of which one will rank among the top three in the world, according to the Commission…
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