The document discusses the Helix Nebula Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) project. It summarizes that HNSciCloud uses a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) instrument to develop innovative cloud services through public-private partnerships. The PCP has resulted in the co-design and development of cloud services to support research applications. It also suggests using PCP/PPI and other funding instruments at different stages of a service lifecycle to continually develop and update the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) service catalog.
1. Input to OSPP on EOSC
9 December 2016
Bob Jones
CERN
Bob.Jones@cern.ch
Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud
Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action
funded by H2020 Framework Programme
2. 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
3. The Hybrid Cloud Model
Brings 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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Suitable technologies exist but
• Integration & Scalability
• Policy & Governance
requires careful planning
4. HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement
Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF,
IFAE, INFN, KIT, STFC, SURFSara
Experts: 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
6. HNSciCloud commodity
PCP commodity
Procurement roadmap
21/12/2016
‘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
Procurement
model
2021 2022
Use PCP/PPI to grow the EOSC service catalog in a
predictable yet competitive manner
7. N
N+1
N+2
Staying up to date
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The average lifetime of IT technology is less than 5 years.
5 years
5 years
5 years
Repeat investment over successive technology cycles
to keep the EOSC service catalog up to date and relevant
8. Service Lifecycle
Bob Jones, CERN 8
Defines platform service lifecycle that will govern how services enter into
production and are eventually retired
Credit: Net+
http://www.internet2.edu/vision-initiatives/initiatives/internet2-netplus/
PCP/PPI for service
innovation
framework for
commodity procurement
Service catalog
9. • Funding
agencies
• Research
Infrastructures
• Public & Commercial
Service Providers
• Users
Data &
software
Service
providers
Funding &
policy
Data
providers,
Comm.
channel to
users
EOSC service marketplace
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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
11. Summary
HNSciCloud demonstrates the PCP instrument can be used to incite public
and commercial providers to develop innovative services that satisfy the
needs of Europe’s research communities
A significant number of FP7 and H2020 projects were cited in the bids as
sources of innovation contributing to the proposed solutions
This suggests that PCP offers a potential exploitation path for the results of EC
funded R&D projects
There is a willingness by suppliers to develop standards-based solutions
This includes adhering to certification schemes for service providers and
evolving existing products so that they can be delivered according to equitable
service level agreements
Different funding instruments will be required at different phases of the
service lifecycle
They should be combined to form a value chain which can accommodate
multiple funding streams
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Notas do Editor
Research organisations from 7 countries have proposed to work together to develop a cross-border joint procurement of innovative cloud services. This is an important change: never before have research organisations across Europe pooled their funds and resources to procure cloud services to support their scientific programmes.
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