Work Plan for the S econd P eriod

1. Work Plan for the Second Period Bob Jones, CERN First Helix Nebula Review 03 July 2013 • This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula 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. Focus for the second period • Taking into account the work achieved in the first period, the experience gained from the initial flagship deployments and the need for a federated cloud system, we will focus on: • Pursuing the full-scale flagship deployments • Analysing the business models • Preparing for the transition from the pilot phase to the production service • Strategic Plan agreed • Select flagships use cases • Define governance model Towards an open market for Science • Pilot Phase • Deploy flagships • Analysis of functionality, • performance & financial model Bob Jones - CERN

3. Flagshipdeployments Results will contribute to deliverables • D5.2 “Report on future technical requirements” • D5.4 “Final Flagship Deployment report” • D6.2 “Roadmap for the integration and Interoperation of commercial cloud with e-Infrastructures” Bob Jones - CERN

4. Initial flagships: CERN, EMBL, CNR (+ESA, national spaceagencies) • Complete on-going deployments with the Blue Box implementations • Test hybrid cloud model linking Helix Nebula suppliers with EGI and GEANT using the CERN ATLAS/CMS flagship as a use-case (September 2013) • Determine how the services being developed by EUDAT could be relevant for Helix Nebula (October 2013) • Expand Supersites to USA & Japan Bob Jones - CERN

5. NewFlagships • 3 selected from 15 candidates: • European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) • Weather Data Information Supersite (WDIS) with 100 years of weather data • UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) • Ocean and Coastal Information Supersite (OCIS) • Port d’InformacióCientífica (PIC), Barcelona • Reduce costs and improve speed of delivery, increase volume and accuracy for Neuroimaging • Foresee to deploy the new flagships in 2H 2013 • Requirements are being entered into the online tool • Engagements made by suppliers to support the deployments The deployment of these additional flagships, not foreseen in the DoW, will verify the cloud platform can satisfy requirements from a wider user-base and confirm the “added value” of Helix Nebula Bob Jones - CERN

6. Changes foreseen compared to DoW The preparation of the cloud platform and the deployment of the flagships will require more effort than foreseen • Extend WP4 “Cloud Platform & Provisioning” • To ensure that the experience, learning and evidence generated by the work package can be transferred to the subsequent WPs • Focus more effort in WP5 “Flagship deployment” • To complete deployment of CERN, EMBL & ESA flagships with blue boxes • To deploy the additional PIC, ECMWF and UNESCO flagships Bob Jones - CERN

7. Sustainability and NextSteps Bob Jones - CERN

8. Helix Nebula andnational structures • The initial Helix Nebula flagships address the needs of international research organizations with big-science goals • In the second period we want to study how to work with national structures and funding agencies: • Identify potential commercial suppliers and research community users in the country for whom Helix Nebula would bring advantages • Compare the business models being developed in Helix Nebula with those used on a national basis • Understand how national engagement would impact the Helix Nebula governance model Helix Nebula will be presented to the ECP steering group set-up by NeelieKroes during their meeting in Tallinn on 4th July. Bob Jones - CERN

9. Helix Nebula and Europe 2020 • The Horizon 2020 EU framework programme for research and innovation will build on 3 major pillars: • Strengthening the EU’s position in science • Strengthening industrial Leadership in innovation • Tackling Societal Challenges Helix Nebula’s vision and strategic goals are fully aligned with Europe 2020 strategy Bob Jones - CERN

10. The Big Picture Hybrid Cloud Big Data Supplier #1 Big Data #2 First Level Processor Big Data #1 Value-add Data Potential Revenue Stream Downstream Processor Downstream Processor Potential Revenue Stream Potential Revenue Stream Potential Revenue Stream Big Data Supplier #2 Potential Revenue Stream Consumer Consumer Consumer Consumer Bob Jones - CERN

11. Data has Gravitas • Building a library of large scale data • Bring services to the data, not data to services • Democratise access to publicly funded data • Opportunity to cross fertilise data sets • Need for meta data frameworks to unleash value Bob Jones - CERN

12. Sustainability • Helix Nebula has stimulated the interest of many suppliers and public sector users • In order to be viable, Helix Nebula must provide added value to a significant number of paying users • In 2nd period we will determine if the business models under study are capable of supporting the long-term sustainability • The document Helix Nebula the Science Cloud: A Catalyst for Change in Europe proposes a number of measures to move Europe from cloud‐active to cloud‐productive • We see Horizon 2020 as an opportunity to make this transition happen Bob Jones - CERN

13. A Catalyst for Change • Helix Nebula was conceived as a way of bringing coherence to a highly fragmented European IT services industry through the vision of a federated ‘science cloud’ integrated with publicly-funded scientific e-Infrastructures • Turn vision of Helix Nebula into reality: bring together a critical mass of supply-side and demand-side • The proposed accelerators represent a consistent set of concrete actions that will have direct impact on the creation of a flourishing open cloud services market in Europe by facilitating supply and stimulating demand • Horizon 2020 offers a window of opportunity for Europe to use public and private finance to fulfil the Helix Nebula vision of a transformative, innovative and collaborative cloud-based infrastructure for Europe and beyond Bob Jones - CERN

14. Accelerating Europe • Recommendations grouped into a series of acceleration themes: • Creating the necessary political framework to increase access to publicly funded scientific research • Federating multiple commercial cloud service suppliers into an open platform • Using data-intensive science to bolster the data-driven economy • Building the hybrid cloud: putting together public and private cloud services • Adhering to open standards that encourage uptake of a federated cloud • Providing network access to cloud services • Introduce a financial incentive model to encourage a rapid uptake of cloud services Bob Jones - CERN

15. Summary A cloud platform engaging research orgs and companies has been assembled Progress Towards Objectives in the First Period 1. A platform capable of development through PPP into a scalable science cloud; 2. A flexible governance structure capable of growing alongside the infrastructure itself; 3. Representations of functional and non‐functional requirements including policies for trust, security and privacy; 4. Agreements regarding inter‐operability with other, existing, e‐infrastructures; 5. Three flagships based at CERN, EMBL and ESA (represented by CNR), selected as ‘stretch’ targets highlighting extreme cases of the requirements of the ERA ; 6. Sustainable business models adhering to and supporting European‐level policies; 7. A roadmap and development plan for addressing issues on the road to 2020. NDA defined and structures put in place that have scaled from 20 to 34 members Requirements documented and online tool developed Active engagement with GEANT & EGI via the flagship deployments All 3 flagships deployed and more selected from new domains/members Analysis performed and a set of new business models identified Helix Nebula the Science Cloud: A Catalyst for Change in Europe published Bob Jones - CERN