Conveners
Helix-Nebula workshop
- Carmela Asero (EGI.EU)
- Sergio Andreozzi (EGI.EU)
Description
Helix Nebula brings together leading European scientific organisations, commercial cloud suppliers, technology providers and publicly funded e-Infrastructures to provide an open standard based cloud platform and marketplace to provide cutting edge services able to satisfy the highly demanding requirements of complex use cases by scientific communities, public authorities, private research labs, and users working in the “long tail” of science.
The Helix Nebula EC funded project moves toward its conclusion and suppliers in Helix Nebula’s initiative shifted to production phase with the launch of the Helix Nebula Marketplace (HNX). With the vision of creating a single marketplace in Europe for ICT services for science, EGI.eu has contributed to link the commercial suppliers in HNX with the EGI Federated Cloud so to ensure integration and interoperability.
The objectives of this workshop includes presenting HNX addressing the technical, business and governance perspectives. It also provides an update on the interoperability and integration with e-Infrastructures offering an opportunity to discuss how to complete the EGI integration from the technical and business level. Finally, it presents the viewpoint of the European Space Agency as big data provider wanting to create platforms for the exploitation of Earth Observation data for both science and industry.
