Input to OSPP on EOSC
9 December 2016Bob Jones
Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action
funded by H2020 Framework Programme
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
Adopters
Suppliers
Additional Users:
Updated October 2016
The Helix Nebula Science Cloud public-private partnership
02/05/2023
This input based on experience gathered by Helix Nebula members
The Hybrid Cloud ModelBrings together• research organisations,• data providers,• publicly funded e-
infrastructures,• commercial cloud service
providers
In a hybrid cloud with procurement and governance approaches suitable for the dynamic cloud market In-house
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Suitable technologies exist but• Integration & Scalability• Policy & Governancerequires careful planning
HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement
Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF, IFAE, INFN, KIT, STFC, SURFSaraExperts: Trust-IT & EGI.eu
The group of procurers have committed• Procurement funds• Manpower for testing/evaluation• Use-cases with applications & data• In-house IT resources
Resulting services will be made available to end-users from many research communities
Co-funded via H2020 Grant Agreement 687614
Total procurement budget >5M€
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Co-design & development of innovative cloud services in public-private partnerships
http://www.hnscicloud.eu/events/hnscicloud-pcp-tender-results-announcement-ceremony-design-phase-kick-2-november-2016-lyon
PCP/PPI can achieve the same innovation objectivesas Contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPP)
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HNSciCloud commodity
PCP commodity
Procurement roadmap
‘Starting bottom-up is essential to get the core technical, financial, and policy principles right. IaaS can be introduced without impacting higher-level user-facing services that will require a significant software investment. It also represents a strategy with lower risk because the IaaS market is more mature than the PaaS and SaaS markets.’
EIROforum paper
IaaS
PaaS/SaaS
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
PICSE
Procurementmodel
2021 2022
Use PCP/PPI to grow the EOSC service catalog in apredictable yet competitive manner
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N
N+1
N+2
Staying up to dateThe average lifetime of IT technology is less than 5 years.
5 years
5 years
5 years
Repeat investment over successive technology cyclesto keep the EOSC service catalog up to date and relevant
Service Lifecycle
Bob Jones, CERN 8
Defines platform service lifecycle that will govern how services enter into production and are eventually retired
Credit: Net+http://www.internet2.edu/vision-initiatives/initiatives/internet2-netplus/
PCP/PPI for service innovation
framework for commodity procurement
Service catalog
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• Fundingagencies
• Research Infrastructures
• Public & Commercial Service Providers
• Users
Data &software
Service providers
Funding & policy
Data providers,
Comm. channel to
users
EOSC service marketplace
Service sustainability will rely on an economic model with a flexible payment scheme that allows researchers to have free-at-the-point-of-use access while providing a means to route money from
multiple funding sources to service providers according to metered usage by end-users
Build a service marketplace where service providers can participate & compete
https://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/ncip/nci-cancer-genomics-cloud-pilots/cloud-credits
Associate a credit scheme with EOSC marketplace to encourage uptake of services by researchers & SMEs
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SummaryHNSciCloud demonstrates the PCP instrument can be used to incite public and commercial providers to develop innovative services that satisfy the needs of Europe’s research communities
A significant number of FP7 and H2020 projects were cited in the bids as sources of innovation contributing to the proposed solutions
This suggests that PCP offers a potential exploitation path for the results of EC funded R&D projects
There is a willingness by suppliers to develop standards-based solutionsThis includes adhering to certification schemes for service providers and evolving existing products so that they can be delivered according to equitable service level agreements
Different funding instruments will be required at different phases of the service lifecycle
They should be combined to form a value chain which can accommodate multiple funding streams