Mission

VENUS-C (Multidisciplinary Environments Using Cloud infrastructures) aims to develop and deploy a Cloud Computing service for research and industry communities in Europe by offering an industrial-quality service-oriented platform based on virtualisation technologies. VENUS-C will empower these communities through the easy deployment of end-user services, in order to make e-Infrastructures more widely valuable across a spectrum of research fields without the complexity of existing grids and high up-front costs. With its industrial partners and the broad range of scientific user communities, the consortium will demonstrate the feasibility and potential of a Scientific Cloud for Europe.

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User Scenarios

VENUS-C will provide an easy-to-use, user-tested, industrial-quality, service-oriented e-Infrastructure. This will enable research and industry communities from various disciplines to carry out their research in a more effective way. VENUS-C currently has a portfolio of seven applications across four thematic areas: Biomedicine (Bio-informatics and System Biology, Drug Discovery), Civil Engineering (Building Information Management, Structural Analysis), Data for Science (Aquamaps) and Civil Protection and Emergencies. The project‚s application portfolio will grow over time through an Open Call designed to broaden the geographic and scientific scope of the project.

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Demonstration of the VIRTUAL FIRE application in Lesvos Island, Greece, 6 July 2010

The workshop was attended by the Prefect and Counsellors of Lesvos Prefecture, Mayors and representatives of the 13 Municipalities of Lesvos Island, heads of Civil Protection, officers and fire-fighters of the North Aegean and Mytilene Fire Services, staff of Lesvos Forest Service, commanders and officers of military and public service authorities, representatives of social services and fire-fighting volunteer organisations of Lesvos Island, and the partners of the project from University of the Aegean, University of Athens, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Hellas and Microsoft Innovation Center-Greece.

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