1. CloudSME – Cloud-based Simulation platform for Manufacturing and Engineering from project to company Dr Tamas Kiss, CloudSME Project Director Chair of CloudSME UG Advisory Board University of Westminster, London, UK kisst@wmin.ac.uk t.kiss@cloudsme.eu Andreas Ocklenburg CEO CloudSME UG andreas.ocklenburg@cloudsme.eu

2. Simulation software is widely used in manufacturing and engineering today. Simulation can be used to analyse a wide range of physical and chemical processes, manufacturing systems, logistics, transportation networks and supply chains. Take-up of simulation software by SMEs has been low until now due to high barriers of entry, including: – hardware prices – software costs – time investment to create simulation – skills and technical expertise – low awareness of technology Motivations behind CloudSME * using cloud HPC for running simulation * new licensing models via cloud * creating templates for large groups of similar SMEs * designing automated scenario analysis * marketing of niche applications with specific benefits

3. CloudSME: project to company CloudSME Project: Funded by the European Commission FP7 programme – Factories of the Future initiative Duration time: July 2013 – March 2016 EUR 4.5 million overall funding Coordinated by the University of Westminster 16 initial project partners – including 12 SMEs 13 new partners (12 SMEs) joined in January 2015 as result of an Open Call Focus: foster the uptake of simulation software especially among small and medium- sized enterprises by offering Modelling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) on a scalable platform. CloudSME UG: Founded as a company in January 2016 – CloudSME UG Shareholders from 10 CloudSME project partners

4. CloudSME stakeholders Simulation end-users from manufacturing and engineering, mainly. ISVs/VARS consultancies to implement their software in the cloudSME App Center or use cloud integration via API. Infrastructure and Service providers (commercial & academic providers & supercomputing centres)

5. High level CloudSME Concept 5 End users - Manufacturing SMEs Amazon Cloud Cloud Sigma Private Clouds Access Web applications WS/PGRADE/gUSE workflow support CloudSME AppCenter Inform, select, pay and download Use (running jobs) Insole Validation Insole Validation Fluid Dynamics Fluid Dynamics Process Optimization Process Optimization Emission reduction Inventory Forecasting Business optimization … … HPC centers CloudSME Landing/Marketing Site (cloudsme.apps.com) CloudSME Technology platform CloudBrokerPlatform access to multiple heterogeneous clouds ISV/VAR operated specific marketplaces

6. CloudSME landing/marketing site Targeting current and potential customers of commercial offering Primarily for ISVs and value added resellers Entry to AppCenter Platform - deployment centre Advise and support www.cloudsme-apps.com

7. CloudSME AppCenter a web shop, and also a set of commercial services that are available via APIs and can be integrated into marketplaces or vendor products.

8. CloudSME technology platform The CloudBroker platform product of CloudBroker GmbH enables the deployment and execution of compute-intensive applications on different clouds widely automates user, software, resource, job, and invoice management has been ranked as No. 1 regarding its innovation potential by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in a latest study comparing 517 innovations in information and communication technology (ICT) from 279 FP7 and H2020 EU projects regarding their innovation readiness, innovation management and market potential

9. CloudSME technology platform The CloudBroker platform 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* End Users, Software Vendors, Resource Providers CLI* Engineering Appli- cations Euca- lyptus Cloud Open- Nebula Cloud* Open- Stack Cloud* Amazon Cloud* CloudSigma Cloud* Seamless access to heterogeneous cloud resources – high level interoperability

10. CloudSME technology platform The CloudBroker platform Currently available cloud adapters Computing: – Amazon EC2 – CloudSigma – OpenStack EC2 – OpenStack Nova – OpenNebula – Eucalyptus – HLRS NEC cluster – HLRS CRAY (considered) – CINECA Galileo Cluster – ROMEO Cluster – ETH Euler Cluster – … Storage:  Amazon S3  OpenStack S3  OpenStack Swift  Ceph RADOS  Eucalytpus Walrus  SCP  …

11. CloudSME technology platform WS-PGRADE/gUSE – supports the development and deployment of HPC application workflows across different types of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) – WS-PGRADE/uSE is fully integrated with the CloudBroker platform – offers workflow execution on a wide range of clouds either via CloudBroker or directly – WS-PGRADE already integrated to the EGI FedCloud

12. General purpose, workflow-oriented gateway framework Supports the development and execution of workflow-based applications Enables the multi- cloud and multi- grid execution of any workflow Supports the fast development of gateway instances by a customization technology CloudSME technology platform WS-PGRADE/gUSE

13. Each box describes a task Each arrow describes information flow such as input files and output files Special node describes parameter sweeps CloudSME technology platform WS-PGRADE/gUSE

14. Currently available infrastructure resources Commercial clouds: – CloudSigma (CH/DE) – Amazon (different regions) OpenStack clouds: – University of Westminster (UK) – University of Zaragoza (ES) OpenNebula cloud: – MTA SZTAKI (HU) HPC: – HLRS (DE) – CINECA (IT) – ROMEO (FR) – ETH (CH) EGI FedCloud sites

15. Targeted application areas * Classical HPC applications, e.g. CFD (computational fluid dynamics) * relatively small number of end-users with high computation demand * many used simulation before * enable software vendors to extend their product with cloud support * grow towards HPC if required * Infrequent smaller scale simulations for very large number of end- users, e.g. process simulation * use of multiplier entities (e.g. consultant companies) and technologies (e.g. templates) * although smaller in scale, still computationally intensive, typically parameter sweep * target group is typically new to simulation * examples: business process simulation, individualised product design

16. Representative CloudSME business scenario Fluid dynamics simulation using TransAT by Ascomp

18. Representative CloudSME business scenario Simulation one-stop shop for microbreweries * Large breweries are long standing clients of simulation - ~50 large breweries around Europe use simulation * Application areas: brewing, packing, distribution, supply chain * In contrast there are approximately 1,350 UK Craft brewers (microbrewers) and an estimated 15,000 across the EU - significant SME manufacturing sector * Approach: * develop a simulation template that can be used my multiple microbreweries from a simulation one-stop-shop * offer on a pay as you go basis as SaaS * Optimise scheduling so that beer is always consumed in an optimal time window

19. 19 Representative CloudSME business scenario Simulation one-stop shop for microbreweries

20. Some other CloudSME business scenarios * Process simulation for manufacturing companies * Logistics terminal design * General stock management for manufacturing SMEs * Business process optimisation * Computational fluid dynamics * Aircraft maintenance optimisation * Low-carbon energy conversion

21. CloudSME collaboration with EGI FedCloud * Business aspects: * EGI cloud resources to be utilised in research/investigation/development phase * potentially no charging is involved * current EGI provision could be suitable for CloudSME * can support commercial customers in early investigation stage or academic/research institutions on a non-commercial basis * EGI cloud resources to be utilised at commercial operation * details need to be worked out * as we are talking about commercial operation strict QoS requirements need to be fulfilled * feasibility of providing commercial services by EGI sites may need to be further investigated * commercial value need to be justified – competition from commercial clouds and HPC centers

22. CloudSME collaboration with EGI FedCloud * Technical aspects : * Interfacing via native OpenStack/OpenNebula interfaces is already possible – supports only user/name passwd authentication * rOCCI interfacing requires further development on CloudSME side

23. Any questions? Project: http://cloudsme.euhttp://cloudsme.eu Company: http://www.cloudsme-apps.com/http://www.cloudsme-apps.com/