1. The EGI Perspective A European federated community cloud
for the Open Science Commons
T. Ferrari, EGI.eu Technical Director
COMMENTS/QUESTIONS:
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2. Federated Community Cloud Services for e-Science: EGi-GEANT Symposium
Why a federated cloud?
Provide a distributed cloud infrastructure that federates existing community cloud infrastructures in Europe
Allowing the on-demand hosting of community-specific services
Providing processing capabilities suitable to the distributed nature of big data
Allowing single sign on
Providing the needed level of trust and security
Promoting the adoption of cloud open standards
Commercial and publicly funded cloud providers
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3. The principles of federation
Federated AAI
One accounting system
Monitoring services
VM image management across multiple different cloud middleware frameworks and contextualization
Data access and transfer
Cloud service information
Brokering
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4. For which customer groups?
Academy
International Research communities
SMEs and Industry  an innovation space for the big data value chain of Europe
Discovery, sharing, use and re-use of big data for added value services
Education
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At which cost?
The EGI Federated Cloud relies on the existing services for federating NGIs/EIROs already provided as production services
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6. EGI Cloud Infrastructure
EGI Collaboration Tools
EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform
Instance Mgmt
Storage Management
Image Repository
OCCI
CDMI
Cloud Management Stacks
(OpenStack, OpenNebula, Synnefo, …)
EGI Cloud Service Marketplace
OVF
EGI Application DB
EGI Core Platform
GLUE2
GSI
SAM UR
Service
Registry
Information Discovery
Federated AAI
Monitoring
Accounting
Help and Support
Security Co-ordination
Training and Outreach
Sustainable Business Models

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Use cases
BBMRI: data and compute infrastructure that will allow a biobank federation for the storage of big data, parallel data analysis (EGI/EUDAT pilot)
DARIAH: federated cloud storage for high availability of data exploitation
EISCAT_3D: archiving and processing of data (joint EGI/EUDAT pilot)
ELIXIR: enable a federated data analysis infrastructure
EPOS: AAI, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS federated cloud services for data exploitation
Structural biology/INSTRUCT: computation services for big data
LifeWatch: Processing tools for biodiversity data, depositing of citizen scientist data, on demand virtual laboratories in the federated cloud
On demand services for Digital Preservation
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8. Status
Launch in May 2014 with the support of the EGI-InSPIRE project resources
Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
2 countries currently integrating
Croatia, Finland
5 countries interested
Bulgaria, France, Israel, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Armenia
Worldwide interest
South Africa (SAGrid)
South Korea (KISTI)
Canada and Australia
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9. FedCloud in Numbers 19 certified Resource Resources from 17 Providers
100 Percent IT Ltd, United Kingdom
The University of Zaragoza’s Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Spain
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH (Cyfronet), Poland
The Supercomputing Centre of Galicia (CESGA), Spain
The Czech Education and Scientific NETwork (CESNET), Czech Republic
Forschungzentrum Juelich, Germany
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), Germany
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) / Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), Spain
~Okeanos by the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), Greece
Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences (II SAS), Slovakia
Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Division of Catania, Italy
The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (KTH), Sweden
Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Division of Bari, Italy
Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Division of Padova, Italy
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Computer Science and Control (MTA SZTAKI), Hungary
Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBIM), Turkey
The European Information & Innovation Centre (UKIM), Macedonia
Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas CIEMAT (CETA-CIEMAT), Spain
158 individuals participating and contributing to the Federated Cloud group
>150 conference calls (Sep 2011 – Sept 2014)
78,422 VM instantiations accounted for in the last year
190,513 CPU Hours on certified resources
Currently no storage accounting though sites have examples of heavy utilisation

10. Commercial exploitation
A EGI marketplace of services will be established
pay-for-use business model and its supporting tools for accounting and billing
SLA management
Cross-border procurement
Engagement with SMEs and industry for the big data value chain
Contribution to the HNX
Required legal framework
 EGI-Engage project proposal (H2020)
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11. EGI Platform Architecture
Physical Infrastructure
Core Infrastructure Platform
Collaboration Platform
Federated Cloud Platform
Community Platforms
High Throughput
Data Analysis
Platform
Open Data Platform
Open data publishing, discovery
use, and re-use -> big data value
RI and community-specific
services
Cloud Providers private/public

12. Value proposition
The EGI Federated Cloud: a federation of institutional private Clouds, offering Cloud Services to researchers in Europe and worldwide
A single cloud system able to
Scale to user needs
Integrate multiple different providers to give resilience
Prevent vendor lock-in
Enable resource provision targeted towards the research community
Supporting Open Science and the Big Data Value Chain

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EGI Vision
The Open Science Commons Researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for performing collaborative excellent research
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EGI Mission
Accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons by expanding the capabilities of a European backbone of federated services for compute, storage, data, communication, knowledge and expertise, complementing community-specific capabilities
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