EGI/EUDAT/INDIGO-DataCloud Joint project proposal for EINFRA-12 A

Project Overview Vision, Mission, Objectives

Project Vision & Mission Researchers from all disciplines enjoy seamless, open access to the advanced digital capabilities, resources and expertise they need to collaborate and to carry out data- and computing-intensive science in a secure and trustworthy way, managing and preserving resources for everyone’s benefit. MISSION To establish a unified, open set of production services realized via cross-Infrastructure integration, procurement, delivery, innovation and training, involving multiple providers and benefitting research collaborations of pan-European and international relevance.

Objectives Simplify access to a broad portfolio of products, resources and service provided by major pan- European and international organizations through an open service catalogue A cornerstone of the EOSC Remove fragmentation of service provisioning and access to digital services in Europe and beyond Technical integration between common & thematic services Service innovation, procurement, provisioning and access Increase innovation capacity of digital Infrastructures

Objectives (cont) Consolidate digital infrastructures by Expanding capacities and capabilities Improving discoverability, access, interoperability and sharing , across research communities and countries Extend access to integrated compute, storage, data and software to new user groups including high- education and industry, increase the user base Expand human capacity Consolidate/Expand a distributed network of experts and service operators at local/national level

Ambition and relationship with EOSC roadmap Ambition: the delivery of the EOSC Infrastructure component including hardware/advanced computing/storage/scientific applications leveraging GEANT connectivity services with the involvement of integrated e- Infrastructures/RIs/Virtual Research Communities, leveraging ESIF funding where applicable

Ambition and relationship with EOSC roadmap (cont) QR3 2018: Initial integrated open catalogue of production commons services leveraging federated AAI (compute/storage/data management) Implementation roadmap of EOSC catalogue of FAIR data – via thematic service providers  “Thematic clouds” Implementation plan of cross-border procurement framework based on aggregation of demand and needs Rules of engagement for EOSC service providers  Input from EOSCpilot findings due at PM12 2018-2020: widening of EOSC catalogue foundation by continual integration of new capabilities and capacity via thematic service providers, and common service providers

Service architecture and approach

Service architecture Community Support services Thematic Thematic Federation Services AAI, Accounting, Monitoring, Operations, Security Coord. Added Value Services Compute, Data, Software Management and Preservation Open Collaboration Platforms Application Repository, Configuration Management, Marketplace Compute . HTC . HPC . Cloud . Cloud container Storage . Online storage . Archival storage . Object storage Compute/Data Management . PID mgm . Data discovery (B2FIND, LFC) . Data transfer (catch all FTS possibly Globus Transfer) . Metadata management . B2SAFE // data policy management (iRODS) . B2SHARE // invenio . Virtual Machine Image mgm(AppDB) . Workflow mgm Service management . Accounting . Monitoring . Service registry . Helpdesk . Operations support tools Collaboration platform . AppDB . Marketplace . Software repository Basic Infrastructure Compute and Storage Common services

Community Support Services EINFRA-12 (A) Actors Data generators Users Integrated Service Providers Federation services Added Value Services Basic Infrastructure Open Collaboration Platforms Community Support Services Service Catalogue The EOSC catalogue foundation; pan-European infrastructure integration Compute . HTC . HPC . Cloud . Cloud container Storage . Online storage . Archival storage . Object storage Compute/Data Management . PID mgm . Data discovery (B2FIND, LFC) . Data transfer (catch all FTS possibly Globus Transfer) . Metadata management . B2SAFE // data policy management (iRODS) . B2SHARE // invenio . Virtual Machine Image mgm(AppDB) . Workflow mgm Service management . Accounting . Monitoring . Service registry . Helpdesk . Operations support tools Collaboration platforms . Application and Software Repository . Marketplace Product Catalogue Technology providers

Approach to Research Communities (1) Thematic Service Provider Research Community as provider of community-specific services For the project service catalogue. Role: SERVICE PROVIDER Activities: Integrate in catalogue, Train, Exploit (2) Early Adopters Research Community as consumer of common e-Infrastructure services Role: USER Activities: technical support, co-design, pilot use (3) Customer Research Community as existing/ prospective consumers of the service in the catalogue Role: CUSTOMER Activities: credit allocation, technical support, exploit

Thematic Services, Competence Centers and Business Pilots Calls for Expressions of Interest

Thematic Services S Definition: Services offering tools or platforms including data analytics, scientific applications, datasets, publications and other research objects – to be discovered, accessed, used and re-used in ways that will advance knowledge and drive innovation, leveraging the existing generic data and computing infrastructures. Thematic services serve the needs of specific science domains and/or of multidisciplinary research. Open Call launched on 23.12.2016, closed on January 28: 60 proposals received. Review of proposals ongoing, notification of results: Feb 10 (hopefully). 14

Technology Readiness Level Development Phase Drawing board Proof-of-Concept Pilot Pre-production Production TRL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 Go/NoGo Go/NoGo Go/NoGo Go/NoGo Service Definition Basic Ideas Define Scope Basic Roadmap Roadmap RC SR Update Roadmap Release naming Convention Alfa Beta RC Stable Service Portfolio Management Portfolio Catalog Documentation Basic First version Published Operated by Service Building Operations 15

Engagement with research communities (1) Thematic Service Providers Interested in providing a thematic production service as part of e-Infra-12 and the future EOSC Selected via an open call at proposal (already mentioned) Additional call expected during the duration of the project Distributed across 3 slides 16

Engagement with research communities (2) Early adopters Interested in piloting common services, using and advancing cross-infrastructure usage for the benefit of their research community and beyond Organized through “competence centers” bringing together e-Infrastructure providers and relevant research organizations and technology providers/experts Selection via an open call at proposal preparation stage  Call announced on February 2, deadline: February 16 https://www.egi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Call-for- Competence-Centers-final.pdf Additional call expected during the project Distributed across 3 slides 17

Competence Centers The Competence Centre is driven by well established and mature research infrastructure or international collaboration requiring advanced and integrated data and computing services. In the Competence Centre early adopters test, adapt, and integrate the digital capabilities they need to pursue they research, with the support of e-Infrastructure and technology experts. Competence Centres should help consolidating and integrating existing e-Infrastructures in order to enable users to enjoy seamless access to complementary services from multiple providers. Distributed across 3 slides 18

Competence Centers Running Proof of Concepts to prove the feasibility of the proposed use cases, based on specific scientific and technical requirements defined by the research community. Conducting Pilots aiming at defining and testing the architectural design of the proposed solution. The results of pilot activities have to be validated against to the predefined criteria. Preparing the production environment required by the early adopters, where the relevant services and solutions are being delivered and made available to users beyond the CC, enabling them to become active users. Defining appropriate business models to sustain the solutions after the end of the project. Distributed across 3 slides 19

Engagement with research communities (3) Existing and prospective customers (engaged via continual onboarding) Interested in using available services and tools from the entire e-Infra-12 service catalogue during the course of the project and beyond Benefiting from Technical support, training and enabling activities supported by the project Free access to services supported through the allocation of “credits” Distributed across 3 slides 20

Involvement of Industries Organized through Business Pilots: relevant to EGI participants with a national business programme and have activities of pan-European impact/interest designed to foster innovation between e-Infrastructures and the private sector through building an ecosystem of SMEs, large industries, startups, researchers, accelerators, and investors to become active business partners of e-Infrastructures as customers and/or service providers. These initial pilots will serve as early demonstrators of the project’s Joint Digital Innovation Hub (DIH). Selection via an open call at proposal preparation stage  Call announced on February 2, deadline: February 16 https://www.egi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Call-for- Business-Pilots_final.pdf Distributed across 3 slides 21

Business Pilots Pilots are designed to foster innovation between e- Infrastructures and the private sector through building an ecosystem of SMEs, large industries, startups, researchers, accelerators, and investors to become active business partners of e-Infrastructures as customers and/or service providers. These initial pilots will serve as early demonstrators of the project’s Joint Digital Innovation Hub (DIH). Target Private organizations (e.g. SMEs, large industries) looking for new opportunities to innovate with or using compute, storage and data management products or services. Other organization types are welcome however strong evidence of commercial impact must be demonstrated. Distributed across 3 slides 22

More information Service Catalogues: EGI https://www.egi.eu/servi ces/ Contacts EGI: tiziana.ferrari@egi.eu EUDAT: damien.lecarpentier@csc.fi INDIGO-DataCloud: davide-salomoni@cnaf.infn.it Service Catalogues: EGI https://www.egi.eu/servi ces/ EUDAT https://eudat.eu/services -support INDIGO-DataCloud https://www.indigo- datacloud.eu/service- component