New Cloud Infrastructure For Cross-Border Science

EUBrazil Cloud Connect is a new international co-operation project which is creating a joint cloud infrastructure.

This new infrastructure will enable a multi-disciplinary user community to co-operate across borders at many different levels. Ultimately, the project aims to accelerate scientific discovery and to advance knowledge on several challenges of high social impact.

One of the innovative aspects of EUBrazil Cloud Connect is the introduction of a new business model based on the bartering of resources.

“Part of the EUBrazil Cloud Connect federation will be built with the idea to put time-dependent surplus resources in a pool where members of the federation can explore and exchange these resources and better attend the user demand when their peak loads cannot be served locally,” explains Francisco Brasileiro from the Federal University of Campina Grande, the Brazilian coordinator of EUBrazil Cloud Connect.

To learn more, please watch the video or see the project website.