1. Enabling Dynamic Services with SURFconext
e-Science Without Limits
Harold Teunissen and Remco Poortinga - van Wijnen — SURFnet
December 2011

2. Changing Behaviors
Hierarchical Self Organizing
Secrecy Transparency
Loose Alliance Collaboration
Sluggish Urgency
Novelty Innovation
Tunnel Vision Didactic
Institution Individual
Single Discipline Source: Sir Ken Robison
Multi-Disciplinary
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3. Motive
• Cloud cloud cloud — data explosion
• Sharing sharing sharing — connectivity explosion
• Go go go — study + work + play + collaborate +
organize + share + et cetera
• Collaboration is key to you and your team’s
success!
Source: AMD
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4. New core business
• Modern universities are developing towards loose
conglomerates of (inter)discipline expertise
• Collaboration is therefore a core business
• Scientific collaboration involves groups of people
in multiple institutions, disciplines and countries
• Collaboration is about using shared services and
resources
Virtual Collaboration = People + Groups +
Resources + Services + Policies + Funding + ...
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5. Distributed landscape
• Modern science combines resources from multiple
sources across multiple (administrative) domains
‣ The core resources are within one virtual
collaboration domain, but within multiple
institutions, and
‣ the generic collaboration services can be found in
'the cloud'
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6. e-Science without limits
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Network C
Network A
Network B
Open Lightpath
Exchange
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7. e-Science without limits
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Enabled by
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8. Resource Reservation
Bandwidth on Demand
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8am-10pm
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Network C
Network A
Network B
Open Lightpath Exchange
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9. Resource Reservation
Bandwidth on Demand
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8am-10pm 10am-12pm
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Network C
Network A
Network B
Open Lightpath Exchange
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10. Resource Reservation
Bandwidth on Demand
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8am-10pm 10am-12pm 12.10pm-3pm
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Network C
Network A
Network B
Open Lightpath Exchange
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11. Getting connexted
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Virtual Collaboration A
Virtual Collaboration B
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12. Getting connexted
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Enabled by
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13. SURFconext
SURFconext allows you to create your own
collaboration environment that organizes your
applications, services and resources
• Provides the glue and lubrication middleware to
make campus and cloud based services usable for
collaboration for both inter campus and virtual
collaboration scenarios
• O er the platform as a service for smaller & ad-
hoc team collaboration
• O er the platform software for large, virtual
collaboration-type collaboration to run-you-own
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14. Innovative cherry picking
• Federated Identity Management — SAML
• Groups Management — Grouper
• Social Network 'Portal' technology — OpenSocial
• Collaboration Services and Resources
- Document Sharing
- Video Collaboration
- Learning Systems
- Data Storage
- Data Mining
- Workspaces
- Et cetera
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15. e-Science “supply chain”
Collaboration Portal Research Data Storage
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DNA Sequencer
Bandwidth on demand
Virtual
Collaboration
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16. Architecture
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17. Simplified view
VC A SAML2 ADFS TBD Identity Provider
VC B
SAML2 Federation
Grouper
Web Portal Grouper Group Management
Gadget Conext
TBD Attribute Management
Engine
OpenSocial TBD Virtual Organizations
Container OpenSocial
Rest
JANUS Service Registry
OpenSocial Rest SAML2 SP SAML2 Metadata
OAuth
Service or Resource Provider
*SURFconext component
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18. Getting started
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19. Demo
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20. harold.teunissen@surfnet.nl haroldteunissen