On the 2^nd 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