Input to Consultation on Cloud Computing Research Innovation Challenges

7 November 2016Bob Jones

CERNBob.Jones@cern.ch

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European Open Science Cloud

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How can H2020 LEIT ICT Work Programme 2018-2020contribute to the European Open Science Cloud?

Strategic Plan

Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure

Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy

Create governance structure

Define funding schemes

To support the computing capacity needs for the ATLAS

experiment

Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large genomes, for a

deeper insight into evolution and biodiversity

To create an Earth Observation

platform, focusing on earthquake and

volcano research

To improve the speed and quality of research for finding

surrogate biomarkers based on brain

images

Adopters

Suppliers

Additional Users:

Updated October 2016

The Helix Nebula Science Cloud public-private partnership

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This input based on experience gathered by Helix Nebula members

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

infrastructures,• commercial cloud service

providers

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

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Cloud technologies exist but the• Integration & Scalability• Policy & Governancerequires R&D

Integration and Scalability

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Exascale data mgmt. services

Tools & techniques so legacy s/w can

exploit new architectures

(not only HPC)

HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement

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 >5M€

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Co-design & development of innovative cloud services in public-private partnerships

http://www.hnscicloud.eu/events/hnscicloud-pcp-tender-results-announcement-ceremony-design-phase-kick-2-november-2016-lyon

PCP/PPI can achieve the same innovation objectivesas Contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPP)

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HNSciCloud commodity

PCP commodity

Procurement roadmap

‘Starting bottom-up is essential to get the core technical, financial, and policy principles right. IaaS can be introduced without impacting higher-level user-facing services that will require a significant software investment. It also represents a strategy with lower risk because the IaaS market is more mature than the PaaS and SaaS markets.’

EIROforum paper

IaaS

PaaS/SaaS

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

PICSE

Procurementmodel

2021 2022

Use PCP/PPI to grow the EOSC cloud platform in apredictable yet competitive manner

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N

N+1

N+2

Staying up to dateThe average lifetime of IT technology is less than 5 years.

5 years

5 years

5 years

Repeat investment over successive technology cyclesto keep the EOSC cloud platform up to date and relevant

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• Fundingagencies

• Research Infrastructures

• Public E-infrastructures & Commercial Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)

• Users

Data &software

Service providers

Funding & policy

Data providers,

Comm. channel to

users

How an EOSC Cloud services market could function

Service sustainability will rely on an economic model with a flexible payment scheme that allows researchers to have free-at-the-point-of-use access while providing a means to route money from

multiple funding sources to service providers according to metered usage by end-users

Build a service marketplace where service providers can participate & compete

https://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/ncip/nci-cancer-genomics-cloud-pilots/cloud-credits

Associate a voucher scheme with EOSC marketplace to encourage uptake of cloud services by researchers & SMEs

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Policy and Governance

EstablishCloud Certification schemesPractical & Equitable Service Level AgreementsData-intensive cloud service benchmarksMarket mechanisms to encourage cloud service uptake

That are easy to adopt and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aware/compliant