ECEE  Enabling Clouds for eScience The open collaboration spot for cloud projects in Europe www. Scientific-cloud.org Åke Edlund, PhD KTH-SICS Cloud Innovation Center Vilnius

ECEE Agenda ECEE opening Ake Edlund, Venus-C/KTH FutureGrid: An Experimental Computing Grid and Cloud Test-Bed Karolina Sarnowska-Upton, University of Virgina (20+20) BiG Grid HPC Cloud Floris Sluiter, SARA (30+10) COFFEE Venus-C Architecture Hakan Soncu, Venus-C/EMIC (30+10) StratusLab - Current Status and Plans Cal Loomis, StratusLab/IN2P3 (30+10) ECEE Wrap-up Ake Edlund, Venus-C/KTH

Åke Edlund  Coordinator KTH-SICS Cloud Innovation Center (C!C)[1]  Managing Partner SICS Seed Accelerator[2]  Leading VENUS-C Scientific and International Cooperation[3]  Coordinating ECEE (see this presentation)[4]  December 2010: completed the NEON project (Northern Europe Cloud Computing) [1] [2] [3] [4]

Why “ECEE”?  Many initiatives with similar goals  Accelerate the learning process  Share the load  Cross border and cross project services www. Scientific-cloud.org Vilnius

Who’s “in”? So far. VENUS-CItaly, Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, Greece, Israel StratusLabFrance, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland NGSUnited Kingdom GRNET cloudGreece SARA cloudThe Netherlands UCMSpain – as part of the OpenNebula Project SEECCISlovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosova, FYRo Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria CESGASpain – as part of the Open Cirrus project NEONSweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland BalticCloudEstonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland Participated in workshops: VISION project Vilnius

Collaboration cross European projects  Initiated in September 2009 – at EGEE’09  Meet twice a year  1 st workshop – OGF28, Munich, March 2010  2 nd workshop – EGI TF, Amsterdam, Sept 2010  3 rd workshop – EGI UF, Vilnius, April 2011 www. Scientific-cloud.org Vilnius

Workshops – example  1 hr Industry presentations  2 hr Detailed findings - project-by-project, sharing specific findings, and respective roadmap  1 hrDiscussion, pointing at common challenges and how to share the load, to update common high-level roadmap www. Scientific-cloud.org Vilnius

Workshops – example  1 hr Industry presentations  2 hr Detailed findings - project-by-project, sharing specific findings, and respective roadmap  1 hrDiscussion, pointing at common challenges and how to share the load, to update common high-level roadmap www. Scientific-cloud.org Vilnius This time: more time for each presenter – to get feedback that way

Sharing experiences – examples www. Scientific-cloud.org Vilnius Looking at common challenges - examples

ECEE Agenda ECEE opening Ake Edlund, Venus-C/KTH FutureGrid: An Experimental Computing Grid and Cloud Test-Bed Karolina Sarnowska-Upton, University of Virgina (20+20) BiG Grid HPC Cloud Floris Sluiter, SARA (30+10) COFFEE Venus-C Architecture Hakan Soncu, Venus-C/EMIC (30+10) StratusLab - Current Status and Plans Cal Loomis, StratusLab/IN2P3 (30+10) ECEE Wrap-up Ake Edlund, Venus-C/KTH