It will develop a solution based on its Open Telekom Cloud public cloud service launched in March 2016, which currently supports workloads from various companies, SMEs and public sector organizations.
This joint €5.3 million PCP, led by CERN, will establish a European hybrid cloud platform designed to support high-throughput, data-intensive scientific use cases sponsored by 10 European public research organizations and co-funded by the European Commission. A total of 28 multinational companies, SMEs, and public research organizations from 12 countries submitted bids over the summer. The PCP will begin with a design phase, where four consortia will compete to advance to the prototyping phase.
CERN operates one of the world's largest private OpenStack clouds, with over 7,000 servers and 190,000 cores. As more research organizations begin using cloud services, the demand is growing for dynamic capacity that can be seamlessly deployed in a hybrid hub. Open Telecom Cloud, operated by T-Systems and technology partner Huawei, is built on the open-source OpenStack architecture and facilitates the routing and migration of data and resources between private and public clouds.
As part of a previous provisioning in 2016, CERN and T-Systems evaluated the capabilities of the Open Telekom Cloud in a three-month pilot project. "After extensive testing, it has become clear that the Open Telekom Cloud can handle the required high-performance, data-intensive workloads," said Andreas Falkner, Vice President of Open Telekom Cloud, Digital Division at T-Systems.
In addition to CERN, the following research organizations are part of the joint PCP and plan to make use of the European hybrid cloud:
• Istituto Nazionale di Physica Nucleare (INFN), Italy
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany
• Center 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
• Institute of Physics of Higher Energies (IFAE), Spain
• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France
This is part of the HNSciCloud project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme
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