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he scientific community relies heavily on brings together public research organizations
processing big data sets. For example, and e-Infrastructures with commercial suppliers
the European Organization for Nuclear to offer Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to
Research (CERN) received more than 50 Europe’s
petabytes of data from its Large Hadron Collider help them to cost-effectively manage the
this year, and this is set to increase tenfold expected growth in both data and processing
in the next decade. To meet this challenge, requirements.
Europe has initiated Helix Nebula–the Science To implement the first European hybrid cloud
Cloud (HNSciCloud), a European hybrid cloud platform, Helix Nebula–The Science Cloud
platform enabling the science community to launched
process, share, and manage big data in a more Procurement (PCP) tender sponsored by ten of
effective and productive way. Europe’s leading public research organizations
HNSciCloud introduces a hybrid model that and co-funded by the European Commission.
research
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