WP6 – Inter-operability with e-Infrastructures Sergio Andreozzi - WP6 Task Leader Strategy and Policy Manager, EGI.eu Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review 1

WP Objectives Identifying the interoperation and integration issues between commercial cloud infrastructures and publicly owned pan-European e-infrastructures for technology and policy issues in order to define a roadmap for their integration with commercial cloud computing resources Specific goals Understanding the interoperation and integration issues around technology and policy between commercial cloud infrastructures and publicly owned e- Infrastructures: GEANT: a pan-European network for the research and education community built on a federation of European NRENs: National Research and Education Networks EGI: a pan-European federation of resource centres organised into National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) PRACE: a federation of peta-scale and high-end computing centres across Europe EUDAT: a project exploring the data services and support needed in Europe for the European Research Area Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review2

Effort Contribution Lead Beneficiary: EGI.eu Person-Months per Participant ParticipantPerson- months EGI.eu13.00 TOTAL13.00 PM24PM1 WP6 Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review3 Budget to support workshops Total13,000E Used3,769E

Scientific/technical achievements and their impact 1.Establishment of communication channels across the different communities (EGI, DANTE, Commercial Providers) 1.Through dedicated interoperability workshops 2.DANTE joined the Helix Nebula consortium and clarified business model for the pilot phase 3.Engaged EGI Federated Cloud through EGI.eu 4.EUDAT/PRACE to be approached during the second year Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review4

Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Connection of Helix Nebula commercial suppliers to GÉANT/NRENs Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review5 planned GÉANT offering free IP connectivity for research traffic during the pilot phase

Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Identification of a number of interoperability concerns requiring actions Mapped using the European Interoperability Framework V2 Levels: Political context, legal, organisational, semantic, technical Integration scenarios between commercial clouds and e- Infrastructures explored and proposed Initially focusing on EGI and DANTE/NRENs 17 High-level recommendations identified and agreed by the stakeholders Identified actions for implementation with evaluation of feasibility based on available resources Full endorsement to be reached in the first part of year 2 Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review6

Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Identification of a test case to evaluate interoperability across commercial providers and EGI Approach: Deploy one of the flagships in both infrastructures Use the same evaluation criteria Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review7

Deliverables and Milestones – Period 1 TypeNo.NameNatureDissemination level Date Delivered Deliverable6.1Interoperability requirements reports ReportPU21/05/2013 Milestone14 Kick-off meeting engaging public and commercial resource providers ReportPU12/10/2012 Milestone15 Technical Workshop ReportPU07/03/2013 Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review8 MS14 related to 1 st workshop in Prague (>70 participants) MS15 related to 2 nd workshop in Frascati (105 participants)

Exploitation and use of foreground Identified recommendations relevant for policy makers e.g.: see presentation at last e-IRG workshop ( Identified recommendations and actions that can influence strategic and technical decisions of both publicly-funded infrastructures and commercial providers e.g.: work towards a common technical standards profile, common standards for services managements that are federated, common service catalogue Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review9

Collaboration with other beneficiaries Other WP representatives attended the WP6 workshops to ensure cross-WP collaboration Contributed to the activities of WP7 to support the design of business models that include e-Infrastructures Participated in WP8 activities to share experience in governance and contribute requirements from WP6 viewpoint Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review10

Interaction with other FP7 projects, and stakeholders outside the consortium FedSM (EC Project): Service level management of federated infrastructure Participated in both WP6 workshops as speaker; collaboration in defining/implementing one of the recommendations e-FISCAL (EC Project): Cost assessment of public funding HTC/HPC infrastructures and comparison with commercial cloud offerings Participated in the first WP6 workshop as speaker, knowledge transfer in the area of cost and business models EGI Federated Cloud (partially funded by EC Project EGI- InSPIRE): main stakeholder at WP6 workshops from public funded infrastructures; dialogues at all level from political to technical Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review11

Contribution to the dissemination of project results Co-location of two out of three WP6 Interoperability workshops with EGI Forums to maximise exposure Support to dissemination of news, events, results via social media channels Twitter Facebook LinkedIn EGI Newsletter and blog Helix Nebula - 1st Year Review12