Project description Coordination actions, conferences and studies supporting policy development, including international cooperation, for e-Infrastructures Show the project objective Hide the project objective Over the last ten years the European countries and the EC have made significant investments in e-Infrastructures for scientific computing, notably High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) services. Their contribution in pushing the European research towards a leading position in addressing global challenges has been validated by a growing number of research initiatives, most notably the ESFRI projects. Sustainability of such services is crucial, as the research supported by them is more and more crucial for European competitiveness – and sustainability can be planned better if the costs are known. The emerging commercial offerings (Cloud-based HTC and HPC solutions) pose additional challenges and opportunities for sustainability. They represent new ways of explicit monetisation of computing and open the way to new business models (e.g. service fees or of lease industrial resources). The upcoming next framework programme and broader EU policies depend on more careful impact assessment, which requires accurate cost estimates. Similarly energy saving and green computing will be increasingly relevant, and project results will also allow estimating potential benefits in these areas. It is thus vital to understand the cost of the dedicated computing related e-Infrastructures, as expressed by EGI and PRACE initiatives. The calculation of such costs is not trivial; keeping detailed accounting data for the evolving mix of capital (hardware) and operational (personnel, energy) expenditures is only one of the challenges. The scope of the e-FISCAL proposal is to analyse such costs, facilitated by national entities (NGIs and HPC centres), compare them with equivalent commercial leased or on-demand offerings and provide an evaluation report. The execution of the survey builds on a small-scale survey conducted by the e-IRGSP2 project that proved the complexity of the issue and provided tacit knowledge valuable for the e-FISCAL project. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelsnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational scienceengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwaresupercomputers Programme(s) FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research infrastructures Topic(s) INFRA-2011-3.4. - Coordination actions, conferences and studies supporting policy development, including international cooperation, for e-Infrastructures Call for proposal FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS - RESEARCH CENTER EU contribution € 142 018,00 Address KEFALLINIAS STREET 46 11251 Athens Greece See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mary Marinopoulou (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY Ireland EU contribution € 52 965,00 Address UNIVERSITY ROAD H91 Galway See on map Region Ireland Northern and Western West Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mari Vahey (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STICHTING EGI Netherlands EU contribution € 60 669,00 Address SCIENCE PARK 140 1098 XG Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Other Administrative Contact Steven Newhouse (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data EMERGENCE TECH LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 94 347,00 Address ST. JAMES HOUSE, 8 OVERCLIFFE DA11 0HJ GRAVESEND See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Matti Heikkurinen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data