| Description: | Today, Wednesday 15 January 2014, project DOME has reached another milestone. Four more parties are officially joining the DOME Users Platform: KxA (previously known as Dysi-SI), Transfer-DSW, RUG-CIT and the Netherlands eScience Centre.
Productive partnership. As of today, these four companies and knowledge institutes are official partners, as formulated in separate DOME Users Platform collaboration agreements. They are now active participants in project DOME and catalysts for valorization of the scientific insights and technological breakthroughs DOME will yield.
Good company. Before the documents are signed, Albert-Jan Boonstra (scientific director DOME for ASTRON) and Ton Engbersen (scientific director DOME for IBM) will give an update on the DOME and SKA projects. After that, representatives of all four parties will take part in a signing ceremony at ASTRON's Van de Hulst Auditorium, together with Alexander Brink (chairman of the DOME steering board) and Marco de Vos (ASTRON's managing director and DOME steering board member).
After lunch, each CEO or director will go into some detail concerning the activities they will undertake within the Users Platform. In order to maximize synergy, there will also be room to discuss the interaction between members of the Users Platform and DOME research teams.
About DOME: DOME is the project in which IBM and ASTRON have joined forces to create new technology for handling the deluge of data that will be generated by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. DOME is one of the most data-intensive science projects ever. It requires and stimulates ground-breaking research, which will take aspects like computing speed and capacity, storage capacity and efficiency, pattern recognition and energy reduction to a completely new level.
We will keep you posted of any future developments around the DOME Users Platform.
The DOME project is supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Province of Drenthe.
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