Interoperability and Integration of EGI with Helix Nebula - Workshop Sergio Andreozzi Strategy and Policy Manager (EGI.eu) 11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum 20131

Objectives of this Workshop To inform the EGI Community about the integration and interoperability work between Helix Nebula and EGI To offer the opportunity for feedback on the recommendations to be included in the roadmap 11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum 20132

Agenda 11:00 -11:20 Introduction and Context Spekaer: Sergio Andreozzi, EGI.eu 11: :20 Overview of proposed recommendations Speake: Carmela Asero, EGI.eu 12:20 – 12:30 Wrap-up & Conclusion 11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum 20133

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Helix Nebula: Timeline … Pilot Phase Deploy flagships, Analysis of functionality, performance & financial model Towards an open market for Science Endorse the Common Strategy Agree on the Partnership Select flagships use cases Define governance model /04/2013 EGI Community Forum 2013

Initial Flagship Use Cases Scientific challenges with societal impact Sponsored by user organisations Stretch what is possible with the cloud today Scientific challenges with societal impact Sponsored by user organisations Stretch what is possible with the cloud today 11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum 20136

Helix Nebula EC Project Coordination action under call INFRA ‐ 2012 ‐ 3.3 Start ‐ date 1st June 2012, duration 24 months – Total budget ~3M€ (1.8M€ EC funding) EGI Community Forum /04/2013 7

Helix Nebula EC Project EGI Community Forum /04/2013 8

WP6 – Final Goals (spring 2014) Define a roadmap for the integration and interoperation of commercial clouds with e- Infrastructures addressing operational, technical, legal, organisational aspects Through three workshops and ad hoc task forces Expected Outputs: Interoperability Requirements Report (May 2013) Roadmap for integration/interoperability (Mar 2014) EGI Community Forum /04/2013 9

Possible Scenario 11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum (a)Customer A determines what services are required, and available from the catalogue; (b) then invokes supply arrangements with Suppliers X and Y; (c) stores data with Supplier X; (d) invokes processing capacity from Supplier Y; (e) Suppliers X and Y manage data availability and access; (f) SME B determines the location of and access to required (possibly Open) Data; (g) pre-processes data, with Supplier Z, to produce useful information; (h) establishes SaaS-based Information service with Supplier Z4; (i)End User C invokes Information service.

EGI Situation Before Helix Nebula Front-end Academic Other market sectors Big Science Long tail Public funded Commercial GovernmentManufacturingOil & gas, etc. Atos Cloud Sigma T- Systems GÉANT Federation Layer Commercial NRENNREN NRENNREN Resource Centre X Resource Centre Y 11

Helix Nebula – Blue Box 11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum

EGI Community Forum A data center has valuable data that attracts lots of workload, but has not enough capacity 2.A data center wants to offer different types of resources not available in house (e.g., GPU’s) 3.A data center wants to offer different SLA’s Integration use case from data center viewpoint

EGI Integration Use Case #1 Single Provider Bursting Helix Nebula Blue Box Front-end Academic Other market sectors Big Science Long tail Public funded Commercial GovernmentManufacturingOil & gas, etc. Atos Cloud Sigma T- Systems GÉANT Federation Layer Commercial NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN Resource Centre X Resource Centre Y 14

EGI Community Forum A researcher wants to consume data-sets available as open access in a public-funded infrastructure, has no available computing capacity but has allocated budget to buy cloud services 2.A researcher wants to combine usage of different types of resources from a public-funded infrastructure and from commercial providers Integration use case from researcher viewpoint

EGI Integration Use Case #2 (a, b) Integration with External Broker Helix Nebula Blue Box Front-end Academic Other market sectors Big Science Long tail Public funded Commercial GovernmentManufacturingOil & gas, etc. Atos Cloud Sigma T- Systems GÉANT Federation Layer Commercial NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN A B Resource Centre X Resource Centre Y 16

EGI Integration Use Case #3 Federated Infrastructure Bursting Helix Nebula Blue Box Front-end Academic Other market sectors Big Science Long tail Public funded Commercial GovernmentManufacturingOil & gas, etc. Atos Cloud Sigma T- Systems GÉANT Federation Layer Commercial NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN NRENNREN Resource Centre X Resource Centre Y 17

EGI Community Forum Conclusion Helix Nebula is developing a multi-tenant and multi- provider cloud infrastructure that mobilise the commercial sector in Europe to support the need of science EGI is collaborating to ensure interoperability and integration with e-Infrastructures Initial integration scenarios ideas have been presented from which to derive recommendations

11/04/2013 EGI Community Forum Further information: Contact: sergio.andreozzi AT egi.eu