The Federated European Network for Interaction and eXchange (FENIX) Research Infrastructure is a bottom-up initiative with 6 leading HPC Centers namely BSC (Spain), CEA (France), CINECA (Italy), CSC (Finland), CSCS (Switzerland) and JSC (Germany), that 2018 agreed to align their services to facilitate the creation of the FENIX Infrastructure. FENIX is a collaborative, federated cloud-oriented research infrastructure originating from the ICEI project (Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project), which was part of the European Human Brain Project (HBP). Researchers from or associated to the HBP were the initial prime users of this e-infrastructure. The distinguishing characteristic of this e-infrastructure is that data repositories and scalable supercomputing systems are in close proximity and well integrated.
Currently, the FENIX members are committed to a joint set of infrastructure services and work on the federation of these services. FENIX’s ongoing activity is the provision of cloud computing and archival data repository services for European scientists (Fenix News).
