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Helix Nebula- The Science Cloud Project Overview and Mgmt

Helix Nebula- The Science Cloud Project Overview and Mgmt. Bob Jones - CERN Helix Nebula Review 26 June 2014.

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Helix Nebula- The Science Cloud Project Overview and Mgmt

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  1. Helix Nebula- The Science CloudProject Overview and Mgmt Bob Jones - CERN Helix Nebula Review26 June 2014 • This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula Partners and 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/ • The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no 312301

  2. Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  3. Project overview and management • Objectives • Consortium • Work Packages • Role of Atos, CNR, CloudSigma in P2 • Management • Deliverables/milestones • Provisional Financial status • Effort consumption Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  4. Objectives Project objectives re-considered based on: • The recommendations of the project reviewers after the first project review • Led to a set of actions agreed at the third General Assembly in Sept. 2013 • Production Platform • Build a production service for the “generic cloud for science “ business model in 2014 • Co-design higher level services working towards the “Information as a Service” business model that can build on “generic cloud for science” • Integrate GEANT as part of the production platform • Utilisation • Demand-side to further test the readiness of the production platform with the existing flagships during 2014 • Procurement: CERN, ESA & EMBL will work together to identify acceptable procurement models • Understand the needs and constraints of an additional flagship to be deployed in 2014 (PIC Neuroimaging Center in Barcelona) • Organisation • Governance: revise the NDA to cover the whole of 2014 and prepare a new governance model taking into account the experience of the pilot phase • Expand the HN consortium with new users, suppliers and adopters Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  5. The Helix Nebula Initiative as of May 2014 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 • 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 improve the speed and quality of research for finding surrogate biomarkers based on brain images Suppliers Adopters Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  6. Workshop EMBL Blue Box and ServArch docs published Timelines Workshop ESRIN Strategic Plan agreed TechArch doc published Catalyst for change in Europe doc published HNX Market launched LoI for Market announced General Assembly (GA) 1, CERN GA3 EMBL Flagship deployments launched on HNX GA2, ESApublic event GA4, CERN public event Flagships selected(CERN, EMBL, ESA) Proof of Concept (PoC) deployments start Pilot deployments start (CERN, EMBL, ESA) PoC deployments complete PoC deployments assessed (CERN, EMBL, ESA)New flagships presented (PIC, ECMWF, UNESCO) Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  7. WorkPackages Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  8. Work Packages Duration: 2 years Start Date: 01 June 2012 EC co-funding: 1.8 Million €Total budget: ~2.9 Million€ Total effort: 202 person months • WP1: Management & Coordination (CERN) • WP2: Engagement and Dissemination (Cloud Security Alliance) • WP3 (ended in M13): Representation of requirements (CloudSigma) • WP4 (ended in M13): Cloud platform & provisioning (Atos) • WP5: Flagship Deployment (Logica/`CGI) • WP6: Inter-operability with e-infrastructures (EGI.eu) • WP7: Business Models (SAP) • WP8: Governance Models (T-Systems) • WP9: Evaluation Roadmap and Development Plan (EMBL) Proportion of effort by work package as foreseen in DoW at the start of the project Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  9. Relationships between work packages WP1 - Coordination Higherlevel of interaction between WP 4-9 thanforeseen WP2 – Engagement and Dissemination Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  10. Consortium Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  11. EC Project Beneficiaries • 10 beneficiaries within the FP7 project which is itself part of a larger initiative • The Helix Nebula Initiative has grown from 20 members at the start of the EC project in June 2012to 41 in the course of 2 years • The EC project Beneficiaries: • Suppliers: 7 • Users: 3 • The overall initiative: • 16 Suppliers • 12 Adopters seeking to engage as suppliers • 9 Active Users • 4 Adopters with candidate use cases Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  12. Members of the Helix Nebula Initiative Signed the NDA after the 1st review and more candidates in the pipeline Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  13. Atos in period 2 Atos was WP4 - Service Provisioning – leader (officially ended in period 1) • The final edition & revision of D4.3 was in June’14 (period 2) Continued to contribute to HN in period 2 through: • Other WPs, and collaborating with other EC projects and interest groups: PRACE, FedSM, etc.as recommended during the first review in July 2013 • Atos played an active part in working groups such as ServArch and TechArch, and in the creation of the Helix Nebula Marketplace (HNX) Took part in the Select Industry Group (SIG) discussions, established by the EC as part of the European Cloud Partnership (ECP) programme • Discussions included SLAs, Certifications and Codes of Conduct Atos has been particularly active in the overall management and coordination of activities of HN initiative in P2 • Chairing (bi-)weekly supply-side teleconferences Hosted face-to-face meetings in July, December 2013 and March, June 2014 Most of these activities have not been charged to the EC project Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  14. CNR in period 2 • Participation in the definition of the Governance model: • Conducted interviews and contributed to the organisation of the Governance workshop during GA3 • The ESA flagship: • Contributed to the evolution of the exploitation platform concept into the INFOaaS model • A scientific use case representative of an INFOaaS business model was presented at GA4 • The FP7 DORIS and LAMPRE FP7 projects (both led by CNR): • Initiated discussions (along with ESA) on using HN as an environment for deploying the DORIS and LAMPRE services • Represented the project at Earth Observation related events: • Living Planet Symposium (Edinburgh, Sep. 2013) • Cloud Computing for the UK Research Community (London, Nov. 2013) • European Geophysical Union General Assembly (Vienna, Apr. 2014), in collaboration with ESA Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  15. CloudSigma in period 2 New flagship PICNICC taken through the on-boarding process • Goal for PIC flagship: • Reduce costs and improve speed of delivery, increase volume and accuracy for Neuroimaging • Requirements entered into the online tool • Effectiveness of online forms improved using PIC feedback • Initial deployment directly with CloudSigma • Completed and reported at 4th General Assembly Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  16. Management Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  17. Management Structure Signed on 22.06.2012 Signed by all parties in November 2012 Collaboration Boardschairedby EMBL: 25 Sept. 2013, Heidelberg, Germany 16 May 2014, CERN, Geneva Updatedon 24.04.2013 Amended on 10.02.2014 • Weekly management team teleconferenceschairedand documented by CERN (40 in period 2) attended by: • 3 suppliers (Atos, CloudSigma, T-Systems) • 3 demandsiderepresentatives (CERN, EMBL-EBI, ESA) • 1 invited (CGI, EGI.eu, The Servers Labs, Terradue, SAP, EUBrazilCC, EUTechStrategy, etc.) Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  18. Management Tasks • Beneficiaries’ cost statements were processed in July 2013 • All costs declared in NEF were approved • Interim payments received in October 2013 • At the third general assembly (September 2013): • Work plan updated and the table of content of the deliverables due for period 2 agreed • The project coordinator agreed to distribute the first interim payment • Resource consumption was reconsidered and the contractual Description of Work amended based on: • Deviations in planned versus consumed effort in P1 • The decision made to focus the remaining effort on making the transition from pilot to production • Beneficiaries and the project coordinator decided on budget reallocation and effort transfer collectively Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  19. Grant Agreement Amendment # 2: 10 Feb 2014 • The consortium agreed that the priority for period 2 should be the transition from a pilot phase to a production platform. Annex 1 modified accordingly. • Resources which were not foreseen to be spent in period 2 were redistributed to address the transition tasks. Annex 1 modified accordingly. • Changes made to the Description of Work : • The description of D7.3 and D7.4 refined to reflect the transition from “generic cloud services” to “InfoaaS” • The cost calculation for beneficiary SAP based on a valid Certificate on the Methodology, SAPs budget was amended accordingly • The budget for legal advice to the governance work package (WP8) of 13,125 EUR transferred to T-Systems, who sub-contracted the task to BHO Legal, a third party • To increase the relevance of the project deliverables to the EC policy for cloud computing, CERN reassigned 5000EUR under WP1 to a subcontractor, EUTechStrategy, who contributed to the roadmap report and updated the strategic plan (D9.1 & D9.2) • The WP6 provision (13,000 EUR) for workshops including participation of invited experts was partly (7000 EUR) transferred to the EGI.eu travel budget to cover the costs of two additional workshops Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  20. Deliverables – Period 2 • Additional reports published by the initiative: • The e-Infrastructure Commons Marketplace Position Paper • The Helix Nebula Marketplace Catalogue • The Engagement Plan Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  21. Milestones – P2 Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  22. Financial Status Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  23. Resources and Funding • Co-funding by the EC FP7 project: • Coordinating beneficiaries’ efforts and animating the initiative • Policy aspects,Communication and Outreach • Demand-side • Contribution to the cost of cloud resources consumed and specific developments • CERN: 65K EUR on computing resources • ESA: 40K EUR + 200K EUR to run the exploitation platform • EMBL: 60K EUR on computing resources + 12K EUR to develop the EC2 Bridge • Manpower for porting flagships to the infrastructure (WP5, not reported in cost claims) • Supply-side (Atos, CloudSigma, CSA, EGI.eu Logica, SAP, T-Systems) • Development of services and Blue Boxes • Full cost of the operation of the services • Significant contribution from members of the HN initiative (not beneficiaries of the EC FP7 project): • ESA and CNES: manpower for flagship deployment + cost of services consumed • SMEs: SixSq, TheServerLabs involved in TechArch and ServArch • Development of services and connection to Blue Boxes by suppliers (Interoute) • Dante & NRENs: Effort to connect supplier data centres to GEANT Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  24. Provisional Financial Status • Based on Beneficiaries’ provisional Cost Claims for Period 2 • Total Costs: 1’448.331 EUR • 88% of total budgeted costs for P2of which direct personnel costs are 89 % and the remaining costs are travel, minor subcontracting and overheads Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  25. Total Cost per Beneficiary Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  26. Provisional Financial Status Over-spending beneficiary Task of defining the cloud platform and provisioning peaked in P2. Has required more highly-skilled and experienced staff than expected Most under-spending beneficiaries Missing actual indirect costs Work completed using effort funded via internal sources Project funded effort concentrated on WP5 in P2 The establishment of an online requirementgatheringtemplaterequiredlessmanpowerthanoriginallyforeseen All beneficiaries have contributed to the project Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN 26

  27. Effort Consumption Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  28. Total Effort by Beneficiary Transition from pilot to production required more effort thanexpected Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN 28

  29. Total Effort by Activity Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

  30. Summary • The project has fully completed its second year of work • All beneficiaries have been active and have justified their costs • Suitable structures have been put in place to manage the foreground of the project within the context of the larger Helix Nebula initiative in the future • The members of the larger Helix Nebula initiative have contributed significant resources to achieving the objectives of the FP7 project Helix Nebula review- Bob Jones - CERN

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