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The CARMEN Science Cloud

Paul Watson

Abstract: The CARMEN project (www.carmen.org.uk <http://www.carmen.org.uk>) has designed and built a Cloud to support data sharing and analysis by scientists. Over 100,000 neuroscientists worldwide are working to increase understanding of how the brain works. However, currently there is only limited sharing of data and analysis routines. To address this, CARMEN provides a generic science platform "in the cloud" which enables data sharing, integration and analysis. CARMEN is accessed over the Web by neuroscientists, who populate it with experimental data and associated metadata. They can also analyse the data in the cloud using services they or others have uploaded; a security infrastructure allows both data and services to be shared by users, under the full control of their owners. The CARMEN science cloud is structured as a set of cloud “middleware” platform services (workflow, security, dynamic service deployment, data and metadata storage & search,) that sit on an underlying cloud storage and processing infrastructure. The talk will describe the design of CARMEN, and give examples of its use in neuroscience.