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The Helix Nebula Initiative The preferred model for public research organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines in- house resources with public e-infrastructures and commercial cloud services The Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud Initiative (www.helix-nebula.eu) is a public- private partnership that has built a hybrid cloud to create a growing ecosystem for innovation.www.helix-nebula.eu This federation includes both European public and commercial assets as a way of increasing innovation and impacting the economy with public investment. Today Helix Nebula includes more than 40 public and private partners nebula-partners. nebula-partners 3TRANSCRIPT
The Helix Nebula Initiative
EMBL – 20 January 2016
Maryline Lengert (ESA)
This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula consortium is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://helix-nebula.eu/.
• Establish a sustainable multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructure in Europe• Initially based on the needs for the European Research Area & space
agencies• Based on commercial services from multiple IT industry providers• Adhere to internationally recognised policies and quality standards• Governance structure involving all stakeholders
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The Helix Nebula Initiative
The preferred model for public research organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines in-house resources with public e-infrastructures and commercial cloud services
The Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud Initiative (www.helix-nebula.eu) is a public-private partnership that has built a hybrid cloud to create a growing ecosystem for innovation.
This federation includes both European public and commercial assets as a way of increasing innovation and impacting the economy with public investment. Today Helix Nebula includes more than 40 public and private partners http://www.helix-nebula.eu/about-us/helix-nebula-partners.
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The HN Science Cloud public-private partnership
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:
January 2016
Timeline
2011 2012-2013 2014-2015
• Pilot Phase• Deploy flagships,• Analysis of functionality,
performance & financialmodel
• Endorse the Common Strategy
• Agree on the Partnership• Select flagships use cases• Define governance model
• First procurements• Large-scale deployments• Revised governance model
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The new Helix Nebula Initiative governance model
Rotating chair among User Board members
Elected chair
Elected chair
General Assembly Chair organisation provides the secretariat resourcesAll members sign the HNI Membership Participation Agreement No membership fees
Includes public e-infrastructure
providers
Includes procurers
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The current Task forcesBig Picture
analyse how the complementarity of HN partners and their objectives could be used as a policy implementation tool for the EC and supporting EU bodies.
Scalability Develop an overarching architecture building on complementarity of Helix Nebula suppliers enabling a scalable end-to-end INFOaaS ecosystem.
Independence of broker(s)Develop an operating model that allows market place participants and broker(s) to participate to Helix Nebula value-chain in an open and transparent way, building on fair competition.
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Branded-Product #2InfoaaSMarketplace
HNI resulted activities & products
PICSE & HNSciCloudThe European Open Science
Cloud
Branded-Product #1
Helix Nebula Initiative
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GÉANT / Internet
EC2 Bridge IaaS BrokerSixSq
Atos CloudWatt Exoscale T-SystemsEGI FedCloud
Branded-product# 1: HNX
Ultimum
Need for a Market enabling demand – supply relationships
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CloudSigma InterouteDEAC
Other?
Need for new procurement model & tools
Cloud services are suitable for scientific workloads performed by public research organisations and they are now prepared to consider procuring commercial cloud services on a significant scale.
Public research organizations have experience of cross-border procurements
The cloud service suppliers within Helix Nebula, have developed a set of draft contractual agreements for an initial procurement of IaaS services with multiple suppliers via a broker-based model.
Research organisations are working to ensure that the draft contract agreements conform to their independent procurement processes.
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PICSE
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Need for a European Open Science Cloud
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Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.Mature open source technologies exist but integration, policy and governance requires careful attentionA European Open Science Cloud will promote public-private innovation to satisfy the needs of the research communities and increase the global competitiveness of European ICT providers
What does the European Open Science Cloud need to provide?
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Hybrid – link public research organisations, e-Infrastructures & commercial cloud services
Use GEANT network to link Research Infrastructures, repositories (EUDAT, OpenAIRE), EGI, PRACE etc. to commodity commercial cloud services (multiple providers)A cornerstone of the Open Science Commons (http://go.egi.eu/osc)
Trust - Researchers keep control of the cloud and their dataGuarantee a copy of all the data is kept on public resourcesEnsure long-term preservation of the dataInsulate users from changes of service supplier and technology
Economy - Must be cheaper than the ‘build our own’ approachAvoid separate ‘silos’ for each Research Infrastructure/CommunityProfit from the economies of scale in commercial data centres
Innovation – enabling cross-domain interactions Fostering scientific exchange resulting in new science http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16140
Ensuring sustainability : Building INFOaaSScience interfacing with private sector
Helix Nebula Ecosystem
Customer
Customer
Customer
€
€
€
€
• Lower upfront investment
• Fast access to EO and other geo-data resources
• Disruptive technology
• Risk and profit sharing
Satellite data(ESA/Copernicus)
Data
Content Provider
(Research)
Knowledge
GEO-IT & AppProvider (SME)
Tools
Service Provider (Industry)
Computing & IT
Customer
Information
• Sustainability • Data Value Chain
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Need for an overarching architecture
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Next steps: Amalgamate current activities within HNI to create a sustainable European cross-domain environment
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Helix Nebula Ecosystem
INFOaaS marketplace
Public Procurement
Branded Products
European Open Science Cloud
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Thanks !
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