HNSciCloud PCP Tender Results Announcement Ceremony & Design Phase kick off, 2 November 2016, Lyon, France
On the 2nd November 2016, the awards ceremony for the successful bidders of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud tender took place in Lyon, France, at the CC-IN2P3 (CNRS) premises, one of the main academic data centres in France and a procurer of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud).
This €5.3 million joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) tender, led by CERN, will establish a European hybrid cloud platform that will support high-performance, data-intensive scientific use-cases sponsored by 10 of Europe’s leading public research organisations and co-funded by the European Commission.
A total of 28 multinational companies, SMEs and public research organisations from 12 countries submitted bids during the summer. The 4 winning consortia have been announced at the event where they presented their visions for the hybrid cloud platform.
- Contractor 1: T-Systems, Huawei, Cyfronet, Divia
- Contractor 2: IBM
- Contractor 3: RHEA Group, T-Systems, exoscale, SixSq
- Contractor 4: Indra, HPE, Advania, SixSq
Click here to find out more about the winning bidders.
This event marked the conclusion of the preliminary phase of the pre-commercial procurement and was the occasion to kick off the design phase of the Pre-Commercial Procurement that will see the four winners compete to go through to the prototyping phase.
The presentations and the recording of the event are available below.
Agenda
14:30 - 14:40 Introduction, Pierre Etienne Macchi (CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR)), Presentation, Watch recording
14:50 - 15:10 Project Overview, Bob Jones (CERN), Presentation, Watch recording
15:10 - 15:25 Contractor #1, Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems, Presentation, Watch recording
15:25 - 15:40 Contractor #2, Ezra Silvera, IBM Research, Presentation, Watch recording
15:40 - 15:55 Contractor #3, Marc-Elian Bégin, SixSq, Presentation, Watch recording
15:55 - 16:10 Contractor #4, Alfonso Rios, Indra, Presentation, Watch recording
16:10 - 16:30 Next Steps, Renaud Vernet, CC-IN2P3, Watch recording