1. EGI/EUDAT/INDIGO-DataCloud Joint project proposal for EINFRA-12 A

2. Project Overview
Vision, Mission, Objectives

3. Project Vision & Mission
Researchers from all disciplines enjoy seamless, open access to the advanced digital capabilities, resources and expertise they need to collaborate and to carry out data- and computing-intensive science in a secure and trustworthy way, managing and preserving resources for everyone’s benefit.
MISSION
To establish a unified, open set of production services realized via cross-Infrastructure integration, procurement, delivery, innovation and training, involving multiple providers and benefitting research collaborations of pan-European and international relevance.

4. Objectives
Simplify access to a broad portfolio of products, resources and service provided by major pan- European and international organizations through an open service catalogue
A cornerstone of the EOSC
Remove fragmentation of service provisioning and access to digital services in Europe and beyond
Technical integration between common & thematic services
Service innovation, procurement, provisioning and access
Increase innovation capacity of digital Infrastructures

5. Objectives (cont) Consolidate digital infrastructures by
Expanding capacities and capabilities
Improving discoverability, access, interoperability and sharing , across research communities and countries
Extend access to integrated compute, storage, data and software to new user groups including high- education and industry, increase the user base
Expand human capacity
Consolidate/Expand a distributed network of experts and service operators at local/national level

6. Ambition and relationship with EOSC roadmap
Ambition: the delivery of the EOSC Infrastructure component including hardware/advanced computing/storage/scientific applications leveraging GEANT connectivity services
with the involvement of integrated e- Infrastructures/RIs/Virtual Research Communities, leveraging ESIF funding where applicable

7. Ambition and relationship with EOSC roadmap (cont)
QR3 2018:
Initial integrated open catalogue of production commons services leveraging federated AAI (compute/storage/data management)
Implementation roadmap of EOSC catalogue of FAIR data – via thematic service providers  “Thematic clouds”
Implementation plan of cross-border procurement framework based on aggregation of demand and needs
Rules of engagement for EOSC service providers
 Input from EOSCpilot findings due at PM12
: widening of EOSC catalogue foundation by continual integration of new capabilities and capacity via thematic service providers, and common service providers

8. Service architecture and approach

9. Service architecture Community Support services Thematic Thematic
Federation Services
AAI,
Accounting,
Monitoring,
Operations, Security Coord.
Added Value Services
Compute, Data, Software
Management and Preservation
Open
Collaboration
Platforms
Application Repository,
Configuration Management,
Marketplace
Compute
. HTC
. HPC
. Cloud
. Cloud container
Storage
. Online storage
. Archival storage
. Object storage
Compute/Data Management
. PID mgm
. Data discovery (B2FIND, LFC)
. Data transfer (catch all FTS possibly Globus Transfer)
. Metadata management
. B2SAFE // data policy management (iRODS)
. B2SHARE // invenio
. Virtual Machine Image mgm(AppDB)
. Workflow mgm
Service management
. Accounting
. Monitoring
. Service registry
. Helpdesk
. Operations support tools
Collaboration platform
. AppDB
. Marketplace
. Software repository
Basic Infrastructure
Compute and Storage
Common services

10. Community Support Services
EINFRA-12 (A) Actors
Data generators
Users
Integrated Service Providers
Federation services
Added Value Services
Basic Infrastructure
Open
Collaboration
Platforms
Community Support Services
Service
Catalogue
The EOSC catalogue foundation; pan-European infrastructure integration
Compute
. HTC
. HPC
. Cloud
. Cloud container
Storage
. Online storage
. Archival storage
. Object storage
Compute/Data Management
. PID mgm
. Data discovery (B2FIND, LFC)
. Data transfer (catch all FTS possibly Globus Transfer)
. Metadata management
. B2SAFE // data policy management (iRODS)
. B2SHARE // invenio
. Virtual Machine Image mgm(AppDB)
. Workflow mgm
Service management
. Accounting
. Monitoring
. Service registry
. Helpdesk
. Operations support tools
Collaboration platforms
. Application and Software Repository
. Marketplace
Product
Catalogue
Technology providers

11. Approach to Research Communities
(1) Thematic Service Provider
Research Community as provider
of community-specific services
For the project service catalogue.
Role: SERVICE PROVIDER
Activities: Integrate in catalogue,
Train, Exploit
(2) Early Adopters
Research Community as consumer
of common e-Infrastructure
services
Role: USER
Activities: technical support,
co-design, pilot use
(3) Customer
Research Community as
existing/
prospective consumers
of the service
in the catalogue
Role: CUSTOMER
Activities: credit allocation,
technical support, exploit

12. Thematic Services, Competence Centers and Business Pilots
Calls for Expressions of Interest

13. Thematic Services S Definition:
Services offering tools or platforms including data analytics, scientific applications, datasets, publications and other research objects – to be discovered, accessed, used and re-used in ways that will advance knowledge and drive innovation, leveraging the existing generic data and computing infrastructures.
Thematic services serve the needs of specific science domains and/or of multidisciplinary research.
Open Call launched on , closed on January 28: 60 proposals received.
Review of proposals ongoing, notification of results: Feb 10 (hopefully). 14

14. Technology Readiness Level
Development
Phase
Drawing board
Proof-of-Concept
Pilot
Pre-production
Production
TRL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9
Go/NoGo
Go/NoGo
Go/NoGo
Go/NoGo
Service
Definition
Basic Ideas
Define Scope
Basic Roadmap
Roadmap RC SR
Update Roadmap
Release naming
Convention
Alfa
Beta RC
Stable
Service Portfolio
Management
Portfolio
Catalog
Documentation
Basic
First version
Published
Operated by
Service Building
Operations 15

15. Engagement with research communities (1)
Thematic Service Providers
Interested in providing a thematic production service as part of e-Infra-12 and the future EOSC
Selected via an open call at proposal (already mentioned)
Additional call expected during the duration of the project
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16. Engagement with research communities (2)
Early adopters
Interested in piloting common services, using and advancing cross-infrastructure usage for the benefit of their research community and beyond
Organized through “competence centers” bringing together e-Infrastructure providers and relevant research organizations and technology providers/experts
Selection via an open call at proposal preparation stage  Call announced on February 2, deadline: February 16
Competence-Centers-final.pdf
Additional call expected during the project
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17. Competence Centers
The Competence Centre is driven by well established and mature research infrastructure or international collaboration requiring advanced and integrated data and computing services. In the Competence Centre early adopters test, adapt, and integrate the digital capabilities they need to pursue they research, with the support of e-Infrastructure and technology experts. Competence Centres should help consolidating and integrating existing e-Infrastructures in order to enable users to enjoy seamless access to complementary services from multiple providers.
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18. Competence Centers
Running Proof of Concepts to prove the feasibility of the proposed use cases, based on specific scientific and technical requirements defined by the research community. Conducting Pilots aiming at defining and testing the architectural design of the proposed solution. The results of pilot activities have to be validated against to the predefined criteria. Preparing the production environment required by the early adopters, where the relevant services and solutions are being delivered and made available to users beyond the CC, enabling them to become active users. Defining appropriate business models to sustain the solutions after the end of the project.
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19. Engagement with research communities (3)
Existing and prospective customers (engaged via continual onboarding)
Interested in using available services and tools from the entire e-Infra-12 service catalogue during the course of the project and beyond
Benefiting from
Technical support, training and enabling activities supported by the project
Free access to services supported through the allocation of “credits”
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20. Involvement of Industries
Organized through Business Pilots:
relevant to EGI participants with a national business programme and have activities of pan-European impact/interest
designed to foster innovation between e-Infrastructures and the private sector through building an ecosystem of SMEs, large industries, startups, researchers, accelerators, and investors to become active business partners of e-Infrastructures as customers and/or service providers. These initial pilots will serve as early demonstrators of the project’s Joint Digital Innovation Hub (DIH).
Selection via an open call at proposal preparation stage  Call announced on February 2, deadline: February 16
Business-Pilots_final.pdf
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21. Business Pilots
Pilots are designed to foster innovation between e- Infrastructures and the private sector through building an ecosystem of SMEs, large industries, startups, researchers, accelerators, and investors to become active business partners of e-Infrastructures as customers and/or service providers. These initial pilots will serve as early demonstrators of the project’s Joint Digital Innovation Hub (DIH). Target Private organizations (e.g. SMEs, large industries) looking for new opportunities to innovate with or using compute, storage and data management products or services. Other organization types are welcome however strong evidence of commercial impact must be demonstrated.
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22. More information Service Catalogues: EGI https://www.egi.eu/servi ces/
Contacts
EGI:
EUDAT:
INDIGO-DataCloud:
Service Catalogues:
EGI ces/
EUDAT -support
INDIGO-DataCloud datacloud.eu/service- component