1. Stakeholders consultation
Ignacio Blanquer-Espert
EUBrazilCC project coordinator

2. EU Brazil Cloud Connect Aims and benefits
The main objective is the creation of a federated e-infrastructure for research using a user-centric approach.
To achieve this, we need to pursue three objectives:
Adaptation of existing applications to tackle new scenarios emerging from cooperation between Europe and Brazil relevant to both regions.
Integration of frameworks and programming models for scientific gateways and complex workflows.
Federation of resources, to build up a general-purpose infrastructure comprising existing and heterogeneous resources
Additionally, EUBrazilCC will: perform an active dissemination campaign, analyse innovation, foster the involvement of Brazilian institutions in cloud standards definition, and bring the EU Cloudscape series to broader international audience.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

3. Architecture UC1 UC2 UC3 Users mc2 Programming Frameworks e-SC API
COMPSs
Execution Environments & Services
CSGRID
e-SC
PDAS
COMPSs PMES
Resources Management
OCCI
CDMI IM
VMRC
AAI
SLURM
FogBow
Infrastructure
Providers
Opportunistic Cloud
Private Cloud
HPC
COLFLEB
CLIOC
Data Providers
Landsat
CMIP5

4. Whole Vascular System Simulation
EUBrazilCC targets three use cases which require the collaboration of Europe and Brazil
Leishmaniasis Virtual Laboratory - LVL
Anticipating outbreaks
Whole Vascular System Simulation
A Pureblood simulator
Simulating a heartbeat is a complex, multi-scale problem. EUBrazilCC will deploy a complete blood simulation system with an accuracy beyond the state of the art by integrating the ALYA heart simulation system with the complete vascular simulation system of ADAN .
Biodiversity & Climate Change
Breaking the vicious circle
Understanding the mutual interaction at a global scale between climate change & biodiversity dynamics is needed. EUBrazilCC will integrate two workflows com- ______
Every year 1-2 million new cases of Leishmaniasis occur. The LVL aims to improve the knowledge on the susceptibility of outburst in Leishmaniasis disease by integrating species distributed databases of parasite vectors and biomolecular data from
bining models of plant spe- cies distribu- tion & multi- level imaging data & proce- ssing in a scientific ga- teway.
data from the parasites with bioinf.
and Ecological Niche Modelling processing pipelines.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

5. What Most researchers have
A few cores in a set of medium-sized computers.
Configured by the researcher or by a local system administrator.
Own resources.
Persistent POSIX filesystem where own and reference data is located.
Working for my applications.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

6. What researchers have to do
Cloud infrastructures
Get results
Scale down and undeploy
Run and scale up
Transfer data to local disks
Adapt applications
Prepare, deploy and configure infrastructure
Identify provider
Local own resources
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

7. What Most researchers have
What cloud is offering them
A few cores in a set of medium-sized computers.
Configured by the researcher or by a local system administrator.
Own resources.
Persistent POSIX filesystem where own and reference data is located.
Working for my applications.
A large number of smaller- scale instances.
VMIs need to be configured, properly installed and managed.
Pay-per-use.
Non-straightforward file storage.
Applications do not work faster just by deploying on the cloud.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

8. What do they expect? Case 1: They need MORE computing
Example case: Climate Change
Processing of new remote sensing data takes less than 1K hours (although increasing). Historical data however takes tens of CPU years.
On the other side, processing pipelines (e.g. barcoding, orthology, molecular phylogeny) require a variable type and number of computing nodes
Replicate their infrastructure on ext. provider
Work as usual
Do not care about scaling / deploying
Really pay as you go
Cloud infrastructures
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

9. What do they expect? Case 2: Their systems are small
They need a “bigger” machine
Users do not want to pay for the memory when not using it.
Example case: Biocomputing
Assembling of Next Generation Sequencing requires >64GB RAM computers.
Mapping may require tens of GB RAM depending on the complexity of the reads and the reference, not necessarily bounded to the size of data or arguments.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

10. Needs posed by the users
Minimum difference with their infrastructure and the infrastructure on the cloud
Vision: Infrastructure to “move” from my resources to an external cloud, and eventually come back.
Simplify deployment and elasticity
Deploying an customizing a cluster in the cloud should not require administrator skills.
Horizontal elasticity must take into account the automatic reconfiguration of the virtual cluster.
Vertical elasticity can enable running applications eventually demanding large memory.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

11. Addressing the challenge
Automatic Deployment
Deployments based on recipes, configuration and contextualization services.
Automatic Elasticity
Virtual elastic computing clusters.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

12. Conclusions
Users do not expect infrastructures to provide a single machine with a commodity software, but a fully-configured cluster.
Users do not expect to assume the administration or configuration
Pre-configured VMs are hard to maintain.
Market-like offer-vs-demand models start to be successfully users and can adjust resources and make users pay for what they really use.
17/6/2014
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC

13. More Info and Contact www.eubrazilcloudconnect.eu Open Call for papers
BR Coordinator
Francisco Vilar Brasileiro
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Brazil
EU Coordinator
Ignacio Blanquer-Espert
Universitat Politècnica de València
Spain
4/5/2019
Stakeholders consultation on computing and data for the WP EUBrazilCC