Speaker
Dr
Bob Jones
Description
Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud www.hnscicloud.eu ) is a H2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement project that has contracted commercial cloud providers to develop services that can become part of a hybrid cloud model tailored to the needs of the research community in Europe. The HNSciCloud services and hybrid cloud model are being tested by multiple scientific communities with a range of use-cases including CTA and will deployed for pilot usage at the start of 2018. This approach has been endorsed by the EIROforum members as a basis for a federated scientific data hub
(https://www.eiroforum.org/science-policy/eiroforum-directors-meet-european-commissioner-carlos-moedas/ ) to support the needs of their research communities in the future.
In June 2017 the EC organised a summit on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
(https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=44D86060-FBA1-1BD1-9355822B162BB0EE )
in which the role of commercial service providers and users was acknowledged. The summit resulted in a draft declaration by stakeholders that will be used as a basis for discussions with member states.
This presentation will give an overview of the HNSciCloud services, the plans to open-up their pilot usage to more research communities and how such services are foreseen to be part of the implementation of the EOSC.
Primary author
Dr
Bob Jones
