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The Helix Nebula Initiative

This document outlines the Helix Nebula Initiative's plan to establish a sustainable multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructure in Europe. It highlights the benefits of a hybrid cloud model and the key projects and partnerships involved. The document also discusses the governance structure and the timeline for implementation.

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The Helix Nebula Initiative

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  1. The Helix Nebula Initiative EMBL – 20 January 2016 Maryline Lengert (ESA) 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/.

  2. Establish a sustainable multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructure in Europe • Initially based on the needs for the European Research Area & space agencies • Based on commercial services from multiple IT industry providers • Adhere to internationally recognisedpolicies and quality standards • Governance structure involving all stakeholders http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1374172/files/CERN-OPEN-2011-036.pdf Maryline Lengert, ESA

  3. The Helix Nebula Initiative The Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud Initiative (www.helix-nebula.eu) is a public-private partnership that has built a hybrid cloud to create a growing ecosystem for innovation. This federation includes both European public and commercial assets as a way of increasing innovation and impacting the economy with public investment. Today Helix Nebula includes more than 40 public and private partners http://www.helix-nebula.eu/about-us/helix-nebula-partners. The preferred model for public research organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines in-house resources with public e-infrastructures and commercial cloud services

  4. The HN Science Cloud public-private partnership To create an Earth Observation platform, focusing on earthquake and volcano research Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large genomes, for a deeper insight into evolution and biodiversity To improve the speed and quality of research for finding surrogate biomarkers based on brain images • 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 Additional Users: Suppliers Adopters January 2016

  5. Timeline • Endorse the Common Strategy • Agree on the Partnership • Select flagships use cases • Define governance model • Pilot Phase • Deployflagships, • Analysis of functionality,performance & financialmodel • First procurements • Large-scale deployments • Revised governance model Maryline Lengert, ESA

  6. The new Helix Nebula Initiative governance model Rotating chair among User Board members Elected chair Includes procurers Elected chair Includes public e-infrastructure providers General Assembly Chair organisation provides the secretariat resources All members sign the HNI Membership Participation Agreement No membership fees Maryline Lengert, ESA 6

  7. The current Task forces • Big Picture • analyse how the complementarity of HN partners and their objectives could be used as a policy implementation tool for the EC and supporting EU bodies. • Scalability • Develop an overarching architecture building on complementarity of Helix Nebula suppliers enabling a scalable end-to-end INFOaaS ecosystem. • Independence of broker(s) • Develop an operating model that allows market place participants and broker(s) to participate to Helix Nebula value-chain in an open and transparent way, building on fair competition. • Procurement Maryline Lengert, ESA

  8. HNI resulted activities & products The European Open Science Cloud HelixNebula Initiative Branded-Product #1 InfoaaS Marketplace Branded-Product #2 PICSE & HNSciCloud Maryline Lengert, ESA

  9. Need for a Market enabling demand – supply relationships Branded-product# 1: HNX Other? EC2 Bridge IaaSBroker SixSq Atos Exoscale T-Systems Ultimum CloudSigma Interoute CloudWatt DEAC EGI FedCloud GÉANT / Internet Maryline Lengert, ESA

  10. Need for new procurement model & tools • Cloud services are suitable for scientific workloads performed by public research organisations and they are now prepared to consider procuring commercial cloud services on a significant scale. • Public research organizations have experience of cross-border procurements • The cloud service suppliers within Helix Nebula, have developed a set of draft contractual agreements for an initial procurement of IaaS services with multiple suppliers via a broker-based model. • Research organisations are working to ensure that the draft contract agreements conform to their independent procurement processes. Maryline Lengert, ESA

  11. PICSE Maryline Lengert, ESA

  12. Need for a European Open Science Cloud • Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud. • Mature open source technologies exist but integration, policy and governance requires careful attention • A European Open Science Cloud will promote public-private innovation to satisfy the needs of the research communities and increase the global competitiveness of European ICT providers Maryline Lengert, ESA

  13. What does the European Open Science Cloud need to provide? • Hybrid – link public research organisations, e-Infrastructures & commercial cloud services • Use GEANT network to link Research Infrastructures, repositories (EUDAT, OpenAIRE), EGI, PRACE etc. to commodity commercial cloud services (multiple providers) • A cornerstone of the Open Science Commons (http://go.egi.eu/osc) • Trust - Researchers keep control of the cloud and their data • Guarantee a copy of all the data is kept on public resources • Ensure long-term preservation of the data • Insulate users from changes of service supplier and technology • Economy - Must be cheaper than the ‘build our own’ approach • Avoid separate ‘silos’ for each Research Infrastructure/Community • Profit from the economies of scale in commercial data centres • Innovation – enabling cross-domain interactions • Fostering scientific exchange resulting in new science http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16140 Maryline Lengert, ESA

  14. Ensuring sustainability : Building INFOaaSScience interfacing with private sector Satellite data (ESA/Copernicus) Content Provider (Research) Customer Data € Knowledge Information Helix Nebula Ecosystem Customer Tools GEO-IT & App Provider (SME) € € Customer Computing & IT € Customer • Lower upfront investment • Fast access to EO and other geo-data resources • Disruptive technology Service Provider (Industry) • Risk and profit sharing • Sustainability • Data Value Chain Maryline Lengert, ESA

  15. Need for an overarching architecture Maryline Lengert, ESA

  16. Next steps: Amalgamate current activities within HNI to create a sustainable European cross-domain environment Helix Nebula Ecosystem INFOaaS marketplace Public Procurement European Open Science Cloud Branded Products Maryline Lengert, ESA

  17. Thanks ! Maryline Lengert, ESA

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