EC plans European cloud platform for research data - Telecompaper

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-04-20

Summary:

"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 ..."

Link:

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/ec-plans-european-cloud-platform-for-research-data--1139196

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oa.new oa.comment oa.industries oa.cloud oa.infrastructure oa.europe oa.open_science oa.economic_impact

Date tagged:

04/20/2016, 10:55

Date published:

04/20/2016, 06:55