H2020 project centres on dealing with Big Data
The European Commission is funding a project that aims to develop new approaches to dealing with Big Data.
The ‘BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data’ project will draw €3.8m from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme under Horizon 2020. The Innovative Training Network venture will centre on theoretical basic research, the development of complex infrastructures, and software packages. The project will play a role in the training of researchers and developers in the international context.
Professor André Brinkmann, head of the JGU Data Center and responsible for the BigStorage project at Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, comments: “Cloud computing and Big Data are currently based on application-tailored simplifications in the design of highly scalable analysis systems.
“The new and complex requirements that have since arisen in the fields of climate research, medicine, and environmental sciences, however, mean that long term experience in high-performance computing must again be integrated in the design of data analysis environments and be combined with these new approaches.”
The project is being co-ordinated by the Technical University of Madrid and also includes the contribution of public and private sector partners in Spain, France, Greece, Germany and the UK.
