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Europe’s Leading Public-Private Partnership for Cloud
The Helix Nebula Initiative is a partnership between industry, space and science to establish a dynamic ecosystem, benefiting from open cloud services for the seamless integration of science into a business environment. Today, the partnership counts over 40 public and private partners.
PIC - Port d’Informació Científica
PIC, (Port d’Informació Científica: "Scientific Information Port"), is a data center of excellence for scientific-data processing supporting scientific groups working in projects which require strong computing resources for the analysis of massive sets of distributed data.
It was founded in 2003 and maintained through a collaboration agreement among:
- Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE)
- Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológica (CIEMAT)
with the support of:
- Departament d'Economia i Coneixement (DECO), Generalitat de Catalunya
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Gobierno de España
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
The team of the Port d'Informació Científica (PIC) supports scientific groups working in projects which require strong computing resources for the analysis of massive sets of distributed data.
HELIX NEBULA PARTNERSHIP
Helix Nebula is a new, pioneering partnership between leading IT providers and four of Europe’s biggest research centres, CERN, EMBL, ESA and PIC, charting a course towards sustainable cloud services for the research communities - the Science Cloud.
