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Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action funded by H2020 Framework Programme

Introduction

6 January 2018Bob Jones

CERNIT department

02/02/2018

HNSciCloud

To provide a common cloud platform for the European research community

Collectively the buyers group need a means to increase the analysis capability and capacity offered to their users to keep pace with the growth in scientific data that needs to be analysed

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Helix Nebula Science Cloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement

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Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF, IFAE, INFN, KIT, STFC, SURFSaraExperts: Trust-IT & EGI.eu

The group of procurers have committed• Procurement funds• Manpower for testing/evaluation• Use-cases with applications & data• In-house IT resources

Resulting services will be made available to end-users from many research communities

Co-funded via H2020 Grant Agreement 687614

Total procurement budget >5.3M€

What is being procuredA hybrid cloud platform for the European research community

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Combining services at the IaaS level to support science workflows

The R&D services to be developed are to be integrated withResources in data centres operated by the Buyers Group,

GEANT network and eduGAIN fed. identity mgmt

ChallengesInnovative IaaS level cloud services integrated with procurers in-house resources and public e-infrastructure to support a range of scientific workloads

Compute and Storagesupport a range of virtual machine and container configurations including HPC working with datasets in the petabyte range accessible transparently

Network Connectivity and Federated Identity Managementprovide high-end network capacity via GEANT for the whole platform with common identity and access management

Service Payment Modelsexplore a range of purchasing options to determine those most appropriate for the scientific application workloads to be deployed

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The Hybrid Cloud ModelBrings together• research organisations,• data providers,• publicly funded e-

infrastructures,• commercial cloud service

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In a hybrid cloud with procurement and governance approaches suitable for the dynamic cloud market In-house

Use cases and adopter group

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Research Infrastructures are facilities, resources or services of a unique nature identified by European research communities to conduct top-level research activities in all fields

Other interested Research Infrastructures and procuring organisations will form an adopter group

HNSciCloud project phases

Preparation

•Analysis of requirements, current market offers and relevant standards

•Build stakeholder group

•Develop tender material

Implementation and sharing

Jan’16 Dec’18

Each step is competitive - only contractors that successfully complete the previous step can bid in the next

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4 Designs3 Prototypes

2 Pilots

Call-off Feb’17

Call-off Dec’17

Tender Jul’16

Phases of the tender are defined by the Horizon 2020Pre-Commercial Procurement financial instrument

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