the clara service model and business plan for grid salma jalife (cudi-méxico) and
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THE CLARA SERVICE MODEL AND BUSINESS PLAN FOR GRID Salma Jalife (CUDI-México) and Luis A. Núñez (CLARA , UIS-Colombia/ULA-Venezuela ) 2 nd Project Review Brussels, 8/12/2011. Outline. The Evolution from Grid Services to Advanced Computing (AC) Services - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America
THE CLARA SERVICE MODEL AND BUSINESS PLAN FOR GRID
Salma Jalife (CUDI-México)
and
Luis A. Núñez (CLARA, UIS-Colombia/ULA-Venezuela)
2nd Project Review
Brussels, 8/12/2011
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Outline
• The Evolution from Grid Services to Advanced Computing (AC) Services
• CLARA Advanced Computing Services and Science Gateway
• Cost and Methodology
• Conclusions/Actions
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CLARA Advanced Computing Services
• AC Expertise Transfer. Technical Consulting to assist in house applications– Customising an existing application to profit the existing AC e-infrastructure
– Developing in house new applications required by the customer organisation (Research, Industry or NREN)
• SDK/SourFourge Training To increase the awareness on the AC environments
• Wizard for basic applications. Allows the less expert users and/or NREN to install their applications
• Federated Authentication Resources. Grant authorized access to use the federated resources at a continental scale
• Application Shelf Service: Application Shelf Allows the users, industrial partner and/or NREN to contract computing resources
• Virtual Resources Grid Allocation. Virtual services e-infrastructure, such as:– Allocation of AC resources allowing the member institutions to configure AC environments
(cores/storage/network provisioning) and elements needed to execute their applications
– Running Services records, tracking the processes submitted to the e-infrastructure
• Data Preservation Services. Offer the possibility to store their data for a period of time
• Training and Capacity Building Service. To increases the usage and the culture of Advanced Computing Services by providing people the information and the skills needed to access the AC Services
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Science Gateway Service Centric Model
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CLARA Grid VRC Organisational Model
NOC
Regional NOC+NOC
NOC
NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)
CLARA
Country LA–1
REUNA
Country LA–2
Country LA–N
GOC
GOC
Regional GOC+GOC
NGI or EDGS
NGI or EDGS
NGI or EDGS
APPLICATIONS MANAGER
Grid Community Coordinator
Complex Model
Cooperative Broker Model
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A Regional Cooperative Solution Offers
User
Grid
ScienceGatewa
y
Authentication
Cloud
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Servers
Commercial
Providers
• On demand resources (Hardware, Software & Manware) from the research groups to the research groups
• High bandwidth and low latency from the Experimental academic advanced Networks
• Replicating other services in the RedCLARA Operational Structure
• Added value to the existent infrastructure
• Better use of the existent computational infrastructure and expertise from different countries
• Promoting local middleware solutions better suited for the region
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VRC VRC Check Service
Description
Check Service
Description
RedCLARA RedCLARA
RC RC
Submit
Service
Request
Submit
Service
Request
Consult the
Advance Computing
Resources Available
Consult the
Advance Computing
Resources Available
Find the
Suitable
Resources
Find the
Suitable
Resources
Send the VR
availability
Send the VR
availability
Shows BudgetShows Budget
Login &
Send Data
Login &
Send Data
Data
Processing
Data
Processing
Accept
Budget
OUT
Elaborates
contract
Register
and login
Register
and login
Virtual Resource on demand
22
Yes
Data
Storage
Data
Storage
Consult
Data
Consult
Data
Read
Data
Read
Data
Display
Basic View
Display
Basic View
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Grid
ScienceGateway
Developer
Administrator
Autentication
User
Cloud
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Servers
CLARA Grid-VRC Support ModelScience Gateway Centric Model
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Regional Competitive Solution
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Business Model Parameters RC Profit Margin % 300%RedCLARA Profit Margin 60%% RedCLARA Capacity 30%Max-Cores- GISELA Capacity 1794MAX-Cores-RedCLARA Capacity 538Max Num days/year (80% UpTime) 292Hours per day 24
RedCLARA Price € 0.17
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Two Examples of RC Costs (€)
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Operation Evolution
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SERVUCTION & Operational Profit
• First, Second year of operation after GISELA. • ½ FTE for administrative purposes as contracts, billing and expenditures
• ½ FTE for technical support
• 1 FTE fore marketing and sales
• Third year (1 FTE - Administrative, 1 FTE - Technical and 1 FTE – sales)
Fix
ed
Costs
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Business Model Supported by 3 Actions
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SG Technical Capacities
Funding sources
from S&T Agencies
Marketing toward VRC/User
Communties
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Conclusions & Actions (1/2)
• The service architecture based on SG centric model includes all possible services to be offered by RedCLARA
• The cooperative share cost broker model is economically viable and competitive with the present commercial offer
• It has been validated with the – Directors on NRENs at the RedCLARA Assembly (Oct 27th )
Need to be explained to the S&T Agencies Need to be aligned with National Initiatives Good idea: 30% National capacity to be share regional + Funds for RC Need to be related with other EU projects (RISC, CHAIN, ProIdeal)
– Application Committee (Nov 18th ) Need to allow the possibility to “credit cores” for research projects Need to allow possibility to offer 5% financed resources for good
proposals with no funding opportunities
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Conclusions & Actions (2/2)
• RedCLARA Assembly (Nov. 10th , 2011) and RedCLARA Board Meeting (Dec. 2nd , 2011) recommended to:
– Evaluate the cost/performance of the GISELA e-infrastructure– Convince two or three candidates to start/test the model– Look for funding for the test period (~2 years)
• Develop a LA Call for SG Task Force
– Training at LA and EU technical people from ve, co, pe, mx, ec.– F2f meeting and Workshop at the GISELA Conference
• Aggressive plan to interact with LA Science & Technology Agencies (ar, cl, mx, pe, ec, co, ve)
• Marketing strategy aiming to VRC and ComCLARA Communities
• CLARA Market Study for Cloud Services for standard computing services
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