LEXIS

The LEXIS (Large-scale EXecution for Industry & Society) project, funded by the European Horizon 2020 program, will build an engineeringally advanced platform that combines HPC, Cloud and Big Data.

The increasing quantity of data generated by modern industrial and business processes pose enormous challenges for organizations seeking to use them. A possible solution to this problem comes from combining HPC, Cloud and Big Data into powerful computing platforms. Accessing them , which has been difficult due to both technical and financial reasons, may now be made possible for Small and Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs).

The LEXIS Project will develop a prototype with a significant Open Source dimension. It will be tested, validated and documented by in the industrial and scientific sectors (Aeronautics, Earthquake and Tsunami, Weather and Climate). Specifically, CIMA Research Foundation is leading the workpackage WP7 “Weather and Climate” about hydro-meteorological applications of interest for Civil Protection, agriculture, air quality and renewable energy predictions. In this phase, significant improvements in execution time and solution accuracy are already anticipated Key Performance Indicators, (KPIs).

Driven by the requirements of the pilots, the LEXIS platform will build on best of breed data management solutions (EUDAT) and advanced, distributed orchestration solutions (TOSCA), augmenting them with new, efficient hardware capabilities in the form of Data Nodes and federation, usage monitoring and accounting/billing supports to realize an innovative solution.

LEXIS brings together a consortium with the skills and experience to deliver a complex multi-faceted project, spanning a range of complex technologies across seven European countries, including large industry, flagship HPC centres, industrial and scientific compute pilot users, technology providers and SMEs.