1. SCI-BUS is supported by the FP7 Capacities Programme under contract no. RI-283481 SCI-BUS and the CloudBroker Platform: Extending Science Gateways to Clouds Wibke Sudholt, wibke.sudholt@cloudbroker.com, CloudBroker GmbH, Switzerland, http://www.cloudbroker.comwibke.sudholt@cloudbroker.comhttp://www.cloudbroker.com Nicola Fantini, nicola.fantini@scaletools.com, ScaleTools AG, Switzerland, http://www.scaletools.comnicola.fantini@scaletools.comhttp://www.scaletools.com

2. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Cloud Definition According to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Essential characteristics: – On-demand self service – Broad network access – Resource pooling – Rapid elasticity – Measured service ⇒ Change in IT business model, OpEx instead of CapEx ⇒ Automation, service orientation and economy of scale ⇒ Interfaces between providers and users set at the right place 05.06.2013 / 2 IWSG 2013

3. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Science Gateways and Clouds According to EGI-InSPIRE Science Gateway Primer Three principle approaches by which science gateways can interact with cloud computing: ⇒ Utilize cloud computing resources for the services they offer – Run in the cloud themselves – Adopt the cloud business model 05.06.2013 / 3 IWSG 2013

4. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Types of Clouds Service models: – Software as a Service (SaaS) – Platform as a Service (PaaS) – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Deployment models: – Private cloud – Community cloud – Public cloud – Hybrid cloud 05.06.2013 / 4 IWSG 2013

5. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. SCI-BUS General Cloud Computing Stack 05.06.2013 / HPC IaaS PaaS SaaS Gate- way User CloudBroker Platform 5 IWSG 2013

6. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. WS-PGRADE/ gUSE Cloud Computing Stack in SCI-BUS 05.06.2013 / HPC IaaS SaaS PaaS SaaS PaaS Gate- way User CloudBroker Platform 6 IWSG 2013

7. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. SCI-BUS Architecture 05.06.2013 / 7 IWSG 2013

8. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. CloudBroker Platform Web-based application store for the deployment and execution of compute-intensive scientific and technical software on different clouds On demand, pay-per-use, browser, programmatic and command-line access, cross- domain, one-stop-shop marketplace For batch-oriented, non-interactive, command-line, parallel or non-parallel applications running for hours or days with small to medium size data amounts per job Uses infrastructure as a service (IaaS) from resource providers, offers platform as a service (PaaS) for software vendors and software as a service (SaaS) for end users Register, deploy, use and charge for your own cloud resources and application software or use and pay for resources and software provided by CloudBroker and others Public version with free accounts after registration and validation under https://platform.cloudbroker.com, platform usage surcharge only for commercial and pay-per-use clouds and applications https://platform.cloudbroker.com Also hosted and licensed private versions available, such as separate platform for development and testing in SCI-BUS Easy to use, speeds up time to market, no need for own HPC infrastructure, OpEx instead of CapEx 05.06.2013 / 8 IWSG 2013

9. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Platform Architecture 05.06.2013 / 9 IWSG 2013 User Tools Java Client Library CloudBroker Platform … Cloud Chemistry Appli- cations Biology Appli- cations Pharma Appli- cations Web Browser UI … Appli- cations REST Web Service API CloudBroker Integration End Users, Software Vendors, Resource Providers CLI Engineering Appli- cations Euca- lyptus Cloud Open- Nebula Cloud Open- Stack Cloud IBM Cloud Amazon Cloud

10. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Available Cloud Adapters Virtual machines: – Amazon EC2 – IBM SmartCloud Enterprise – OpenStack EC2 and Nova – OpenNebula – Eucalyptus Object storage: – Amazon S3 – IBM Nirvanix – OpenStack S3 – Ceph RADOS 05.06.2013 / 10 IWSG 2013 ⇒ More cloud adapters continuously to be added ⇒ Users can use and pay for public resources registered by CloudBroker and others ⇒ Users can register and charge for their own resources, just cloud compute and storage accounts needed

11. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Ported Applications Chemistry: – Gromacs, Siesta Biology: – BLAST, X! Tandem, Rosetta, T- Coffee, FoldX, ClustalW, Clustal Omega Pharma: – AutoDock Engineering: – OpenFOAM, ASCOMP TransAT, Elmer Rendering: – Blender General: – Shell scripts, R, Akka, PHP, wrapper script 05.06.2013 / 11 IWSG 2013 ⇒ More application software continuously to be added ⇒ Users can use and pay for public software deployed by CloudBroker and others ⇒ Users can deploy and charge for their own software, just installation script and software package needed

12. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. WS-PGRADE/gUSE 05.06.2013 / 12 IWSG 2013 Source: http://www.guse.hu/about/architecturehttp://www.guse.hu/about/architecture

13. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. CloudBroker Platform Integration in WS-PGRADE/gUSE Method: – Collaboration between MTA SZTAKI, CloudBroker and ScaleTools – Use of the CloudBroker Platform Java client library Implemented features: – CloudBroker DCI Bridge configuration portlet – CloudBroker security portlet – Concrete workflow portlet extension for CloudBroker jobs – Support for running own applications via a wrapper script – Display of costs Upcoming features: – Display of prices and invoices Future features: – Different types of user mapping – Data Bridge integration 05.06.2013 / 13 IWSG 2013 Source: http://www.guse.hu/node/49http://www.guse.hu/node/49

14. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Current Clouds in SCI-BUS Public commercial clouds: – Amazon Web Services – IBM SmartCloud Enterprise Private academic clouds: – MTA SZTAKI, Hungary – OpenNebula and Ceph RADOS – BIFI, University of Zaragoza, Spain – OpenStack – ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland – OpenStack – University of Westminster, UK – OpenStack 05.06.2013 / 14 IWSG 2013

15. © CloudBroker GmbH All rights reserved. Current SCI-BUS Gateways Adria Science Portal AEGIS CMPC Portal agINFRA Science Gateway AutoDock Portal BIFI-Unizar Portal Citizen Web Community Gateway AMC e-BioInfra Gateway Etics Portal iportal MoSGrid Portal NVG Science Gateway Portal Public gUSE Portal RenderFarm.fi SHIWA Simulation Platform SimBusPro Portal Statistical Seismology Science Gateway TR-Grid gUSE Gateway VisIVO Gateway HELIOGate Portal Westminster DG Portal WRF4SG 05.06.2013 / 15 IWSG 2013

16. SCI-BUS is supported by the FP7 Capacities Programme under contract no. RI-283481 Thank you! – Questions? SCI-BUS project: http://www.sci-bus.euhttp://www.sci-bus.eu Public CloudBroker Platform: https://platform.cloudbroker.comhttps://platform.cloudbroker.com Platform help desk: platform@cloudbroker.complatform@cloudbroker.com Many thanks to the CloudBroker and ScaleTools teams!