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An open science cloudfor scientific research

20 April 2016  Bob Jones, CERN

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The Helix Nebula Science Cloud public‐private partnership 

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The Helix Nebula Initiative

The preferred model for public research organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines in‐house resources with public e‐infrastructures and commercial cloud services

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The Helix Nebula initiative has brought together research organisations, data providers, publicly funded e‐infrastructures and European commercial cloud service providers to develop a hybrid cloud model with procurement and governance approaches suitable for the dynamic cloud market

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Procurement Process

PCP 

A more flexible and agile procurement process must be created and implemented tospeed up the uptake of cloud services for the research sector

See PICSE call to action 

http://www.picse.eu/

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Major challenges

What if I get locked in? Are there relevant

standards I should be looking into?

What happens to my data?

How do I get a good deal?

What happens to my IT staff?

How can I compare contracts & SLAs?

What is PCP?

What are the others

doing?

How can I allocate costs?

What services do

I need?

1. Cloud computing is disrupting the way IT resources are provisioned2. In‐house resources, publicly funded e‐infrastructure and commercial cloud 

services are not integrated to provide a seamless environment3. Current organisational and financial models are not appropriate4. The new way of procuring cloud services is also a matter of skills and education5. Legal impediments exist

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HNSciCloud Joint Pre‐Commercial Procurement

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Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL‐EBI, ESRF,IFAE, INFN, KIT, SURFSara, STFC

Experts: Trust‐IT & EGI.eu

The group of procurers have committed• >1.6M€ of procurement funds• Manpower for testing/evaluation• Use‐cases with applications & data• In‐house IT resources

To procure innovative IaaS level cloud services integrated into a hybrid cloud model• Commercial cloud services• European e‐Infrastructures

Services will be made available to end‐users from many research communities

Co‐funded via H2020 (Jan’16‐Jun’18)• Grant Agreement 687614

Total procurement budget >5M€

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High Energy PhysicsLHC experimentsBelle IICOMPASS

AstronomyCTA – Cherenkov Telescope ArrayMAGICPierre Auger Observatory

Life SciencesELIXIREuro‐BioImagingPan‐CancerBBMRIWeNMR

Photon/Neutron sciencePETRA III, European XFEL, 3DIX, OCEAN, OSIRIS

Long tail of scienceEtc.

User groups to be supported

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European Cloud Initiative

European Cloud Initiative will focus on:• European Open Science Cloud: a trusted, open environment for storing, 

sharing and re‐using scientific data and results• European Data Infrastructure: a world‐class digital infrastructure to securely 

access, move, share and process data in Europehttp://europa.eu/rapid/press‐release_IP‐16‐1408_en.htm

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Marketplace for EO Services

A European Marketplace for EO Services will enable companies to offer new products and services building upon those coming from Copernicus and other sources. It will allow the European industry to capitalise on the public investments in Copernicus and, by linking with other data sets, can unleash a new wave of innovative geospatial products addressing many markets.Source: Creating a European Marketplace for Earth Observation Services, EARSC

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Summary

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Helix Nebula Science Cloud is a Pre‐Commercial Procurement project with a budget of more than 5M€ that is co‐funded by the European Commission

The objective is to produce a hybrid cloud platform for the European research community

Changes to the procurement process in the public research sector are necessary to benefit from a dynamic Digital Single Market and should be supported by the platform

Commercial cloud services are expected to play an increasing role in the computing models of scientific Research Infrastructures as part of a hybrid cloud platform

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