1. EGI technical forum ECEE NEON project
Maarten Koopmans,
For UNINETT Sigma

2. More Science.

3. “The Plan” state-of-the art of cloud computing;
cost of moving and running non-HPC jobs on a cloud computing environment;
how to do this in practice;
a list of identified risks/benefits on a short/long perspective.

4. Why Free up HPC resources Elasticity (scale out) Cost(?)
SARA already worked on HPC cloud

5. How Desk research Infrastructure test Pilots
Like minded projects / conferences

6. Pilots
Cloud backed storage
eSysbio
Redcloud

7. Cloud backed storage Completely pluggable, cloud backed
Highly concurrent
Simple webdav interface - NO special clients

8. Metering / quota management
Cloud backed storage
Access
Metering / quota management
Encryption S3
Norstore
...

9. eSysbio Bioinformatics, Norway
Long running statistical jobs using Rserve engine
Use cloud backed storage for data share
Elasticity is key
Public cloud (Amazon grant)

10. Service manages workflow and long running jobs
eSysbio
Web
Service manages workflow and long running jobs
RServe
Engine VM
Shared storage
(cloud backed)

11. Redcloud Comparison of: Open eucalyptus 1.6 Open eucalyptus 2.0
Openstack
Opennebula

12. Cost
....ongoing. Public clouds become cheaper the less "HPC" you are. Price can be influenced
in lots of ways
Reserved instances
Spot instances
Hybrid cloud optimization
Volume

13. Findings so far
Private clouds are maturing, takes at least until mid 2012
Multidomain (availability zones)
Quota management
AAI
Transitional phase for non-HPC computing in public clouds
Accessible hybrid cloud backed storage