SIENA: Grid and Cloud Standards for e- Science and beyond David Wallom for the SIENA consortium

SIENA Objectives Accelerate and co-ordinate the adoption and evolution of interoperable distributed computing infrastructures (DCI) through reinforcement of the Open Standards message SIENA specifically seeks to: – Drive forward the development and adoption of Interoperability and Standards for eInfrastructure implementation in relation to the European DCI community & SDOs; – Elaborate the future research infrastructure scenario through roadmapping fulfilling requirements from both academia and industry, connecting into relevant SDOs to drive forward production of relevant standards and best practices. – Support, plan & organise a series of outreach events viz: 2 roadmap workshops in Europe, 2 Cloudscape events. 2

How How Coordinating the input from DCIs projects, SDOs and Policy groups involved together with the SIENA Experts Groups, with the support of the European Commission What What SIENA ( ) is a Support Action funded by the European Commission under FP7 ( ) Capacities programme. It continues the commitment made through OGF-Europe ( ) while expanding across DCIs and related SDOs. Who SIENA in a nutshell 3

Leveraging worldwide experts REB - Roadmap Editorial Board DCIs IEG - Industry Expert Group SLG - Special Liaison Group

How How Coordinating the input from DCIs projects, SDOs and Policy groups involved together with the SIENA Experts Groups, with the support of the European Commission What What SIENA ( ) is a Support Action funded by the European Commission under FP7 ( ) Capacities programme. It continues the commitment made through OGF-Europe ( ) while expanding across DCIs and related SDOs. Who SIENA in a nutshell 5

Purpose and scope of the roadmap Purpose – assess the situation; identify challenges; make recommendations Scope – e-infrastructure to empower productivity of research communities through ubiquitous, trusted, easy, trans-national access to services for data, communication, and collaborative work in the ERA – many considerations apply also to computing in industry and the public sector (e.g. e-government)

Assessment of the Situation Powerful forces are driving the move towards the cloud service utility model of provisioning IT infrastructure – economies of scale; “green” considerations; efficiency of operation; ease of access; cost effectiveness; dynamic flexibility The transition to cloud computing faces many challenges, not only in research Work on standardization, portability and interoperability for grid computing has been ongoing for over a decade – much of this is relevant to cloud computing Cloud computing is immature and does not meet all needs of all research communities

Selected Challenges Many independent programs and projects Complex standardization landscape Long-term data curation (preservation, management) Legal and regulatory environments, e.g. cross-border data movement Globalization: no adequate set of agreed and accepted standards for portability or interoperability Entrepreneurship: lack of atmosphere conducive to entrepreneurial activity in Europe

Europe is well-positioned Strengths – European Framework Program in e-infrastructure and research infrastructures – World’s largest, most powerful, most comprehensive distributed computing infrastructure for research (EGI) – Distributed Computing Initiatives addressing sustainability and re-use of their assets Opportunities – create a large-scale private cloud, optimized for research, jointly financed and operated by research funding agencies – build software and standards to support federation of multiple small clouds with extension to commercial public clouds

Roadmap Cloudscape IV Researchers need access to science clouds and other e- infrastructure that satisfy their requirements. Interoperability of services and applications is a key concern, broadening choice and ensuring a level playing field for all. Standards are the key tools to achieve interoperability. The aim of the SIENA roadmap is to reduce the required time to reach consensus in distributed computing standardisation initiatives by focusing attention on the main challenges and charting the possible paths to follow. I therefore welcome the SIENA roadmap and I invite all stakeholders to use it as a reference. Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission

Content of the SIENA Roadmap Executive summary Introduction Facing up to the challenges Call for action – immediate and longer term Capitalizing on European e- infrastructure investments Driving positive change for Europe in a global context The European e- infrastructure landscape European cloud computing initiatives Sustainability strategies The global standards landscape Legal brief for Europe* Glossary * graciously provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal AG Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft

Short-term recommendations 1.Determine appropriate deployments for research applications – cloud service level, grid, or supercomputer 2.Strengthen international stakeholder collaboration, e.g. multi-nationally synchronized calls for proposal 3.Strive for a common approach to the European Digital Market for e-infrastructure projects and their assets 4.Support efforts to provide mechanisms to enable federation across multiple cloud service providers 5.Make standards documents readily available to all interested parties 6.Identify business models for research use of clouds, e.g. long-term curation of scientific data in the cloud 7.Review public procurement regulations to encourage re-use of DCI assets in research-optimized clouds 8.Re-use tangible and intangible DCI assets in future cloud computing research projects 9.Establish an e-infrastructure implementation advisory group – maintain a cloud watch – agree requirements and their route to standardization – share policy, regulatory and implementation advice – promote portability and interoperability testing and plug-fests – establish a compliance testing regime – liaise with the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

Short-term recommendations 1.Determine appropriate deployments for research applications – cloud service level, grid, or supercomputer 2.Strengthen international stakeholder collaboration, e.g. multi-nationally synchronized calls for proposal 3.Strive for a common approach to the European Digital Market for e-infrastructure projects and their assets

Short-term recommendations 1.Determine appropriate deployments for research applications – cloud service level, grid, or supercomputer 2.Strengthen international stakeholder collaboration, e.g. multi-nationally synchronized calls for proposal 3.Strive for a common approach to the European Digital Market for e-infrastructure projects and their assets

Short-term recommendations 4.Support efforts to provide mechanisms to enable federation across multiple cloud service providers 5.Make standards documents readily available to all interested parties 6.Identify business models for research use of clouds, e.g. long- term curation of scientific data in the cloud

Short-term recommendations 4.Support efforts to provide mechanisms to enable federation across multiple cloud service providers 5.Make standards documents readily available to all interested parties 6.Identify business models for research use of clouds, e.g. long- term curation of scientific data in the cloud

Short-term recommendations 4.Support efforts to provide mechanisms to enable federation across multiple cloud service providers 5.Make standards documents readily available to all interested parties 6.Identify business models for research use of clouds, e.g. long-term curation of scientific data in the cloud

Short-term recommendations 7.Review public procurement regulations to encourage re-use of DCI assets in research-optimized clouds 8.Re-use tangible and intangible DCI assets in future cloud computing research projects 9.Establish an e-infrastructure implementation advisory group – maintain a cloud watch – agree requirements and their route to standardization – share policy, regulatory and implementation advice – promote portability and interoperability testing and plug-fests – establish a compliance testing regime – liaise with the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

Short-term recommendations 7.Review public procurement regulations to encourage re-use of DCI assets in research-optimized clouds 8.Re-use tangible and intangible DCI assets in future cloud computing research projects 9.Establish an e-infrastructure implementation advisory group – maintain a cloud watch – agree requirements and their route to standardization – share policy, regulatory and implementation advice – promote portability and interoperability testing and plug-fests – establish a compliance testing regime – liaise with the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

Longer-term recommendations Coordinate harmonization of global regulation of trans-national data flows Create an inventory of grid and cloud portability and interoperability standards for research, and proven implementations, aligned with the NIST Cloud Standards Inventory and similar activities of other relevant groups and organizations

Longer-term recommendations Coordinate harmonization of global regulation of trans-national data flows Create an inventory of grid and cloud portability and interoperability standards for research, and proven implementations, aligned with the NIST Cloud Standards Inventory and similar activities of other relevant groups and organizations

Conclusion EGI, its software providers and user communities should all be involved in the implementation of relevant components of the roadmap Its already started but more to do

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