EVOLVE

EVOLVE aimed to build a large-scale testbed by integrating technology from:

- The HPC world: An advanced computing platform with HPC features and systems software.
- The Big Data world: A versatile big-data processing stack for end-to-end workflows. 
- The Cloud world: Ease of deployment, access, and use in a shared manner, while addressing data protection.

EVOLVE aimed to bring the following benefits for processing large and demanding datasets:

- Performance: Reduced turn-around time for domain-experts, industry (large and SMEs), and end-users. 
- Experts: Increased productivity when designing new products and services, by processing large datasets.
- Businesses: Reduced capital and operational costs for acquiring and maintaining computing infrastructure.
- Society: Accelerated innovation via faster design and deployment of innovative services that unleash creativity.