HPCS 2013 plenary talk I: EUDAT — European data services

The EUDAT vision is to support a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) which will allow researchers to share data within and between communities and enable them to carry out their research effectively. EUDAT aims to provide a solution that will be affordable, trustworthy, robust, persistent and easy to use. To reach this goal EUDAT is engaging with users (including individual researchers along with representatives from universities, research labs, and libraries) in defining and shaping a platform for shared services that makes it possible for data-intensive research to span all the scientific disciplines. The platform is constructed by development or integration of common low-level services that are required to provide the level of interoperation and trust of data that is necessary to support both widespread access to data, and the long-term preservation of data for use and re-use. Further, it has to be ensured that the data infrastructure is sufficiently robust to keep pace with the expected acceleration of the scale and complexity of scientific data being generated within the ERA and beyond. This talk will specifically cover the existing and planned services of EUDAT and how they relate to HPC and how HPC users can benefit from EUDAT services.