Interest for the Economy: Reaching Supersites sustainability through the creation of a science - commercial ecosystem 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 The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under Grant Agreement no Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/ Supersite Coordination Workshop Brussels, 11 June 2013 Jurry de la Mar (T-Systems) on behalf of Helix Nebula Consortium

Sustainability to keep up or keep going, as an action or process. (Webster) is the capacity to endure. (Wikipedia) Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems2

Business Sustainability Business Sustainability is often defined as managing the triple bottom line - a process by which companies manage their financial, social and environmental risks, obligations and opportunities. These three impacts are sometimes referred to as profits, people and planet. Financial Times lexicon: s-sustainability Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems3

GEO Hazard Supersite Disasters: Reducing loss of life and property from natural and human-induced disasters DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster Reduction Aim to reach sustainability ! data e-infrastructure

Supersites Exploitation Platform: Infrastructure concept Universities Research Centers e-Infrastructure: - Interface - Computing - Data Mining SMEs commercial infrastructure public e-Infrastructure networks

Where does business sustainability come from? a Super Site? Data sharing (all data space & in-situ) accessible at no cost through a one-stop-shop e-infrastructure (containing also tools and peers). Cross-domain: Supersites will lead to a new, more versatile generation of scientists that capitalize on information from multiple techniques. New business models: pay-as-you-use and costs (partially) covered by income when public and private resources are available in a federation.  Supporting and participating to the value adding process  Creation of an ecosystem building on diversity and risk sharing  Creation of Pan-European Partnership “Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud” Knowledge

A European cloud computing partnership: big science teams up with big business Strategic Plan  Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure  Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy  Create governance structure  Define funding schemes 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 Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large genomes, for a deeper insight into evolution and biodiversity To create an Earth Observation platform, focusing on earthquake and volcano research Adopters

Partnership – Why? The scale and complexity of services needed to satisfy Europe’s IT-intense scientific research & space organisations are beyond what can be provided by any single company and will require the collaboration of a variety of service providers and SMEs By partnering with Science and Space Organizations, it will cover most of the needs of a public Cloud infrastructure, while maintaining EU standards 8Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Partnership – Who & How? Scientific and Space Organizations -commit resources -access to data & user communities IT Providers -commit resources -share investments -agree on standard -interoperability EC supports with -Policy & Strategy -through targeted calls under FP7 SME’s -commit resources -link between Users and Providers - Act as catalyser EC Projects -Standard/Open source -Contributing / using HN Partnership has grown from 20 to 34 members in 2012 ! Partnership has grown from 20 to 34 members in 2012 ! 9Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Long Term Goal To create a multi-tenant ‘Open Market Place for Science’, where data, scientists, funding bodies, SMEs and downstream industry are meeting to work towards common interests, ensuring quality and EU privacy standards. An ecosystem to transform data into valuable information An ecosystem to transform data into valuable information 10Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Contributors to the Ecosystem Scientists Data providers IT Suppliers Funding Bodies R&D LabsSME’s Downstream industry “Shared Risks - Shared Rewards” 11Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Expected Benefits Breakthroughs in Science thanks to cross-domain fertilization (data, tools, funding, capacity, peers) Building scale to handle elasticity Risk sharing between partners Compliance with EC rules and policy (privacy, security, ethics) Business opportunities for SMEs 12Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Timeline … Pilot Phase Deploy flagships, Analysis of functionality, performance & financial model Towards an open, sustainable market for Science Endorse the Common Strategy Agree on the Partnership Select flagships use cases Define governance model 13Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Initial Flagship Use Cases Scientific challenges with societal impact Sponsored by user organisations Stretch what is possible with cloud computing today Scientific challenges with societal impact Sponsored by user organisations Stretch what is possible with cloud computing today 14Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

3 selected from 15 proposals : European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) –Weather Data Information Supersite (WDIS) with 100 years of weather data UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) –Ocean and Coastal Information Supersite (OCIS) Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), Barcelona  Neuroimaging Supersite New Flagships (2013) 15Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems

Recently published document on how a sustainable Ecosystem can be achieved: A catalyst for change in Europe 16Jurry de la Mar, T-Systems