1. EUMEDCONNECT3-ASREN, 27 June 2014
A federated European Cloud Marketplace for Science leading to Information as a Service ESA Pilot case
EUMEDCONNECT3-ASREN, 27 June 2014
Maryline Lengert, ESA

2. To support the computing capacity needs for the ATLAS experiment
A European cloud computing partnership: big science teams up with big business
A European cloud computing partnersh: 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
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
To improve the speed and quality of research for finding surrogate biomarkers based on brain images
Suppliers
What do we want to do:
Facilitate science workflows for all researchers through an e-Infrastructure commons
Need more coherence and integration from the service providers
Need to engage researchers in all disciplines from all sizes of community
Need to keep resources free at the point of use for researchers
Need to link resource use to service provider income for sustainability
Need to reduce the barriers to entry and simplify use for end-users
Adopters

3. Hybrid Public-Private Cloud Model Federation of partners
Academic
Other market sectors
Big Science
Small and Medium Scale Science
Government
Manufacturing
Oil & gas, etc.
Federating Europe’s Public and Private Assets to create a new ecosystem
Helix Nebula
Blue Box
Network Commercial/GEANT
EGI Fed Cloud
Atos
Cloud Sigma
T- Systems
Front-end
Front-end
Front-end
Front-end
Front-end
Front-end
Publicly funded
Commercial
HPC/PRACE 3
Maryline Lengert, ESA

4. Building the hybrid cloud Connecting commercial providers to the GÉANT/NRENs
DANTE offering free IP connectivity in GÉANT for research traffic during the pilot phase
NRENs have different commercial agreements (usually they apply a fee)

5. ESA Pilot: Info as a Service using satellite data
Helix Nebula ensure generic IaaS provisioning , starting with the data source, e.g satellite -processing, -dissemination and –archiving.
Within HN, ESA focussed on stimulating a balanced development of science, public utility and commercial applications consistent with ESA obligations and objectives 5

6. public e-Infrastructure
EO data
in-situ data
Supersites Exploitation Platform: Infrastructure concept for science use
commercial
infrastructure
public e-Infrastructure
networks
EO Science users will use the Supersites as their first option for data:
Storing
Querying
Processing
Analysis
because that's where they find all the data, tools and peers. 
Goals:
1. building a global network of Geohazard Natural Laboratories: (space & in-situ)
2. Developing an e-infrastructure for solid earth data
3. Data analysis on the cloud
Strategy to achieve objective:
Improved monitoring
E-infrastructure virtually connecting data providers and users
Open access to all relevant data sets according to GEO data sharing principles
Stakeholders:
in-situ data owner (agencies, or institutes)
Space Agencies,
Global science community
Tools & Results
Universities
Research Centers
SMEs

7. Ground displacement monitoring: using IPR developed by CNR Naples (IREA)
Earthquakes
Satellite SAR data set
Variety of Data & tools to be re-used for many known and still unknown applications
Volcanoes
Infrastructures
SBAS-InSAR
Processing

8. Subsidence in Rome SBAS-InSAR results
130 ERS/ENVISAT scenes acquired by descending orbits between 1992 and 2010
Mean velocity [cm/yr]
> 0.5
<-0.5
Viale Giustiniano Imperatore

9. Rome: Integration of SBAS-InSAR results and digital catalogues of buildings
Mean velocity [cm/yr]
> 0.5
<-0.5

10. Rome: Integration of SBAS-InSAR results and digital catalogues of buildings10

11. Rome: large scale damage assessment of buildings
Damaged joint 11

12. SBAS-InSAR: scientific use case
User (Scientist)
Web Interface
SBAS-InSAR
Satellite Data (VA4)
3rd Party Analysis Tool
3rd Party Data
Knowledge
INFOaaS
Scientists support Tools, Interested parties (Public and/or Private Entities) covers computational costs

13. SBAS-InSAR: commercial use case
User (SME)
Web Interface
Knowledge
SBAS-InSAR
Satellite Data (VA4)
INFOaaS
3rd Party Analysis Tool
3rd Party Data
Customer
(e.g. Company)
Every actor keeps control of its IPR
Customer pays for accessing the service provided by the SME

14. Information as a Service: Science interfacing with private sector
Satellite data
(ESA/Copernicus)
Data
Content Provider (Research)
Knowledge
Customer €
Helix Nebula Marketplace
Customer
Information
GEO-IT & App
Provider (SME)
Tools € €
Service Provider (Industry)
Computing & IT €
Lower upfront investment
Fast access to EO and other geodata resources
Disruptive technology
Risk and profit sharing
Sustainability

15. Summary The Helix Nebula ecosystem implements
Helix Nebula Marketplace provides a multi-tenant ‘Open Market Place for Science’, where data providers, scientists, funding bodies, SMEs and downstream industry can meet to work along common interests.
The Helix Nebula ecosystem implements
many-to-many relationships, quickly being
established, to transform
data into valuable information

16. Thanks!