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Towards a scientific cloud for Europe

VENUS-C aims to support various research disciplines by offering cloud resources to enhance structural analysis, building information management, data for science, fire risk estimation, bioinformatics, system biology, and drug discovery. Users benefit from on-demand computing resources tailored to their needs. The project receives funding support from the EU and Microsoft, facilitating innovation and collaboration in distributed computing infrastructures. Visit www.venus-c.eu for more details.

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Towards a scientific cloud for Europe

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  1. www.venus-c.eu Towards a scientific cloud for Europe Åke Edlund, PhD KTH/CSC/PDC Cloud Group Lead Leader of VENUS-C WP2 – Scientific and International Cooperation Coordinator NEON project – www.necloud.org

  2. VENUS-C Goals (my wording) • Bring early adopters to the cloud – from start • Attract new users during the project – through an open call • Give users multiple choices - Azure, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus • Contribute actively to DCI Collaborative Roadmap • EGI-InSPIRE, EMI, IGE), StratusLab, EDGI, VENUS-C • Contribute through ECEE to “interoperability-today” effort Next … bringing more science to the cloud www.venus-c.eu

  3. Supporting Multiple Basic Research Disciplines 7even User Scenarios Extending eScience Applications through Open Call: €20,000 funding each, in addition to Azure Compute, Storage and Network Resources porting applications to the cloud - education and training - scalability tests www.venus-c.eu

  4. User Scenario 1Building Structural Analysis • User Community • Wide community of professionals: • Architects, Structural and Civil Engineers • SMEs • Architectural Studios, Construction and Engineering Enterprises • Researchers • Universities, Research Centres • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • To provide the structural community with an execution and research platform. • To reduce the time and cost for designing complex structures and to increase the results reliability, the productivity, the efficiency and the volume of business. www.venus-c.eu

  5. User Scenario 2Building Information Management • User Community • Architects, Engineers, Suppliers, Construction firms, Real Estates. • MACE and Green Prefab communities: 15k stakeholders in Europe, 60k in USA, 1k in China. • MACE Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe - a EU project 2006-2009. • Green Prefab, a spin-off from MACE and it’s Building Information Management System for eco-buildings. • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Documentation and experimental application on a real case simulation. www.venus-c.eu

  6. User Scenario 3Data for Science - AquaMaps • User Community • Fisheries, Aquaculture Resources Management, and Biodiversity (main involved organizations: WorldFish Center, FAO, CGIAR) • Heterogeneous communities: • Statisticians, Fishery Biologists, Marine Ecologists, Economists, Lawyers • Enforcement bodies: customs, coast guards • Conservationists: threatened species and Marine Protected Areas • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Computing resources provisioned as a utility service. • On-demand computing resources capable to satisfy computational peaks either caused by unscheduled or scheduled requests. www.venus-c.eu

  7. User Scenario 4Fire Risk Estimation and Propagation • User Community • Fire scientists • Civil protection authorities • The only VENUS-C user scenario with Geospatial processing and content. • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Software and infrastructure as a service. • Cut down on client deployment time and costs. • Specific and high level knowledge not needed by end-users. www.venus-c.eu

  8. User Scenario 5 Bioinformatics • User Community • Bioinformaticians • Wide community (70K indexed articles in PubMed in the last 10 years), with highly-demanding computing and storage requirements and used to work on the Internet. • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Infrastructures on demand for specific needs. • Better integration of data and computing. www.venus-c.eu

  9. User Scenario 6System Biology • User Community • Wide community, both academic and industrial, performing research in either: • Biology • Pharmacy • Medicine • Health care • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Scalability of applications. www.venus-c.eu

  10. User Scenario 7Drug Discovery • User Community • The target users for this application are chemistry-informaticians, both from academy and SMEs that use a mixed set of public and private tools and data • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Infrastructures on demand for specific needs. • Provision of generic model building framework

  11. VENUS-C – Funding • EU will fund the project with €4.5m over the first 2 years (1/6/2010-30/5/2012). • Funding Scheme: Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Action: Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3). • European Programme Topic: INFRA-2010-2 1.2.1. Distributed Computing Infrastructures. • Microsoft will invest up to €3m in Azure resources and research manpower in Redmond (U.S.), Cambridge (UK), European Microsoft Innovation Centre (Germany) and Microsoft Innovation Centre (Greece). www.venus-c.eu

  12. VENUS-C Consortium Project Director: Andrea Manieri, Engineering, Italy User Scenarios www.venus-c.eu

  13. THANK YOU!edlund@pdc.kth.se www.venus-c.eu

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