Helix Nebula Science Cloud Pilot Phase, 6 February 2018, Bologna, Italy

1. Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action
funded by H2020 Framework Programme
HNSciCloud Pilot Phase
WP5
Andrea Chierici
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2. Objectives
Assess each pilot
Give input to the final reporting
Provide feedback to contractors
Open pilot deployments to end users
Deploy their applications
Provide the platform on which the final demo
can be performed
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3. Description of work
two major tasks:
Task 5.1: scalability and robustness tests
Extended tests performed by the IT specialists
functionality, interoperability, security, robustness and
scalability
When completed will start trials by end-users
Task 5.2: pilot assessment
Assessment against the published criteria
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4. Start of the Pilot Phase
WP5 marks the start of the Pilot Phase of the
PCP process.
Prototype Platforms will be progressively
expanded to larger-scale Pilot Platforms
Buyers Group will execute a suite of tests and
a range of application workloads.
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5. Work Plan February-March
End of February: achieve 100% coverage of
the tests in the prototype test suite for each
contractor
Test subset of suite against Advania (via RHEA)
April: formal review (M-PIL-3.1)
Possibility to terminate the work order if tests
show insufficient progress
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6. Work Plan April-May
Following the M-PIL-3.1 review, IAAS capacity
increased
start testing scalability, security and reliability
Selected end-users will be given access to pilot
platform
WP5 completes at the end of May 2018,
followed by a second review (M-PIL-3.2)
Feedback from end-users taken into account
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7. Dec’18Feb’18
Access to cloud service capacity
7k/
700TB
10k/
1PB
20k/
2PB
40Gbps
Scalability
Testing
End User
Access
Cores/
Storage
Combined capacity
distributed across 2 Pilots
Apr’18 Jun’18
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8. HNSciCloud test suite
CERN
• CERN Batch service
• GPU (Machine learning)
• PerfSONAR @40Gbps
• VM Provisioning and
Personalisation
• Security assessments
• Dockerized deployment of
EOS+CERNBOX+SWAN
CNRS
• HTCondor dynamic expansion
• LHC_VO MC
DESY
• HPL and HPCG (HPC)
• SIMEX (photon science)
• Serial X-Ray (Crystallography)
EMBL
• Marine Metagenomics
ESRF
• Functionality and user-
friendliness of cloud interfaces
IFAE
• MAGIC hybrid cloud
• CTA_dirac data fetching
INFN
• BelleII_SIM_PROD
• Dynfarm_scale
• DODAS
KIT
• Batch system extension
• CPU benchmarks
• Fed auth with ECP SAML
SURFsara
• BBMRi import and testing of
images/recipes
• LOFAR/BBMRI data transfer
• LIGO/VIRGO
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9. Work Methodology
Continue the good habits of WP4
Weekly telco among procurers (1h)
Telco with contractors the same day
Mailing list: HNSciCloud-WP5@cern.ch
Ticketing and logbook systems provided by DESY
Collaborative tools provided by CERN to share
documents and notes
Communication with contractors through their
systems
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