Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 07:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europes biggest research centres (CERN, EMBL and ESA) announced a partnership to launch a European cloud computing platform. "Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud", will support the massive IT requirements of European scientists, and become available to governmental organisations and industry after an initial pilot phase.