The Eurovision Cloud Contest: Big Data, Big Science

The initiative is called Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud, named afterwards the large planetary nebula at times referred to as the 'Eye of God'. This partnership is working to establish a sustainable European cloud computing infrastructure, supported by industrial partners, which will provide stable computing capacities and services that elastically meet demand.

Cloud computing is an Internet-based method where large groups of remote servers are networked to allow the sharing of data-processing tasks, centralised data storage and online access to computer services or resources.