

- Concept of a hybrid cloud for high-performance and data-intensive use cases
- Services out of Open Telekom Cloud for ten of Europe’s leading public research organizations
This €5.3 million joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tender, led by CERN, will establish a European hybrid cloud platform that will support high-performance, data-intensive scientific use-cases sponsored by 10 of Europe’s leading public research organizations and co-funded by the European Commission. A total of 28 multinational companies, SMEs and public research organisations organizations from 12 countries submitted bids during the summer. Next to
CERN is operating one of the world's largest OpenStack private clouds with more than 7,000 servers and 190,000 cores. As more and more research organizations start to use cloud services, demand is growing for dynamic capacity that can be transparently activated in a hybrid cloud. Open Telecom Telekom Cloud, operated by
As part of an earlier procurement in 2016, CERN and
Next to CERN following research organizations plan to make use of the European Hybrid Cloud:
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, (CNRS), France
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
- SURFsara, Netherlands
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
- Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), Spain
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
This is part of the HNSciCloud project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
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