Objective
The INDIGO-DataCloud project (INDIGO for short) aims at developing a data/computing platform targeted at scientific communities, deployable on multiple hardware, and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures. This platform will be built by leading European developers, resource providers, e-infrastructures and scientific communities in order to ensure its successful exploitation and sustainability.
All members of the consortium share the common interest in developing advanced middleware to sustain the deployment of service models and user tools to tackle the challenges of the Big Data era. INDIGO will exploit the formidable know-how that was built in Europe along the past ten years of collaborations on scientific computing based on different consolidated and emerging paradigms (HPC, Grid and Cloud).
Regarding Cloud computing, both the public and private sectors are already offering IaaS-type Cloud resources. However, numerous areas are of interest to scientific communities where Cloud computing uptake is currently lacking, especially at the PaaS and SaaS levels. The project therefore aims at developing tools and platforms based on open source solutions addressing scientific challenges in the Cloud computing, storage and network areas.
INDIGO will allow application development and execution on Cloud and Grid based infrastructures, as well as on HPC clusters. The project will extend existing PaaS solutions, allowing public and private e-infrastructures, including those provided by EGI, EUDAT, PRACE and HelixNebula, to integrate their existing services, make them available through GEANT-compliant federated and distributed AA policies, guaranteeing transparency and trust in the provisioning of such services.
INDIGO will also address the development of a flexible and modular presentation layer connected to the expanded PaaS and SaaS frameworks developed by the project and allowing innovative user experiences, also from mobile appliances.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem softwareoperating systems
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational science
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsquarks
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputers
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
00044 Frascati
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Participants (29)
28006 Madrid
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22607 Hamburg
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46022 Valencia
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28037 Madrid
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1185 MC Amstelveen
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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50121 FIRENZE
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00136 Roma
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3004 516 Coimbra
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76131 Karlsruhe
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3584 CS Utrecht
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1211 GENEVE 23
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60528 Frankfurt Am Main
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52076 Aachen
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75794 Paris
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73100 Lecce
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00185 Rome
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20152 Milano
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30-059 Krakow
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61-704 POZNAN
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1098 XG Amsterdam
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28108 Alcobendas Madrid
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00185 Roma
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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160 00 Praha 6
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00143 Roma
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00143 Roma
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10000 Zagreb
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75015 PARIS 15
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