Platform-driven e-infrastructure innovation

Prepare the capacity required to future generations of e-infrastructure is the key challenge. e-Infrastructure platforms and services need to evolve through innovation actions to respond to the long-term needs of research and education communities (e.g. in case of large RIs entering in functions in a 5 to 10 years' timeframe). Platforms and services are first designed, prototyped and piloted with "supply and demand-side" approaches triggered by to the most demanding cases. The innovative developments bringing state-of the-art technology need to evolve and mature to be integrated and offered as dependable e-infrastructures.

Proposals will address parts (a) or (b), but not both:

(a) Support to Public Procurement of innovative HPC systems, PPI

(b) Research and Innovation Actions for e-Infrastructure prototypes: proposals will address only one of the points below. At least one proposal for each point will be selected:

1. Universal discoverability of data objects and provenance

2. Computing e-infrastructure with extreme large datasets