The Helix Nebula Initiative

EMBL – 20 January 2016

Maryline Lengert (ESA)

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• Establish a sustainable multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructure in Europe• Initially based on the needs for the European Research Area & space

agencies• Based on commercial services from multiple IT industry providers• Adhere to internationally recognised policies and quality standards• Governance structure involving all stakeholders

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The Helix Nebula Initiative

The preferred model for public research organisations is a hybrid cloud that combines in-house resources with public e-infrastructures and commercial cloud services

The Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud Initiative (www.helix-nebula.eu) is a public-private partnership that has built a hybrid cloud to create a growing ecosystem for innovation.

This federation includes both European public and commercial assets as a way of increasing innovation and impacting the economy with public investment. Today Helix Nebula includes more than 40 public and private partners http://www.helix-nebula.eu/about-us/helix-nebula-partners.

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The HN Science Cloud public-private partnership

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:

January 2016

Timeline

2011 2012-2013 2014-2015

• Pilot Phase• Deploy flagships,• Analysis of functionality,

performance & financialmodel

• Endorse the Common Strategy

• Agree on the Partnership• Select flagships use cases• Define governance model

• First procurements• Large-scale deployments• Revised governance model

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The new Helix Nebula Initiative governance model

Rotating chair among User Board members

Elected chair

Elected chair

General Assembly Chair organisation provides the secretariat resourcesAll members sign the HNI Membership Participation Agreement No membership fees

Includes public e-infrastructure

providers

Includes procurers

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The current Task forcesBig Picture

analyse how the complementarity of HN partners and their objectives could be used as a policy implementation tool for the EC and supporting EU bodies.

Scalability Develop an overarching architecture building on complementarity of Helix Nebula suppliers enabling a scalable end-to-end INFOaaS ecosystem.

Independence of broker(s)Develop an operating model that allows market place participants and broker(s) to participate to Helix Nebula value-chain in an open and transparent way, building on fair competition.

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Branded-Product #2InfoaaSMarketplace

HNI resulted activities & products

PICSE & HNSciCloudThe European Open Science

Cloud

Branded-Product #1

Helix Nebula Initiative

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GÉANT / Internet

EC2 Bridge IaaS BrokerSixSq

Atos CloudWatt Exoscale T-SystemsEGI FedCloud

Branded-product# 1: HNX

Ultimum

Need for a Market enabling demand – supply relationships

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CloudSigma InterouteDEAC

Other?

Need for new procurement model & tools

Cloud services are suitable for scientific workloads performed by public research organisations and they are now prepared to consider procuring commercial cloud services on a significant scale.

Public research organizations have experience of cross-border procurements

The cloud service suppliers within Helix Nebula, have developed a set of draft contractual agreements for an initial procurement of IaaS services with multiple suppliers via a broker-based model.

Research organisations are working to ensure that the draft contract agreements conform to their independent procurement processes.

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PICSE

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Need for a European Open Science Cloud

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Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.Mature open source technologies exist but integration, policy and governance requires careful attentionA European Open Science Cloud will promote public-private innovation to satisfy the needs of the research communities and increase the global competitiveness of European ICT providers

What does the European Open Science Cloud need to provide?

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Hybrid – link public research organisations, e-Infrastructures & commercial cloud services

Use GEANT network to link Research Infrastructures, repositories (EUDAT, OpenAIRE), EGI, PRACE etc. to commodity commercial cloud services (multiple providers)A cornerstone of the Open Science Commons (http://go.egi.eu/osc)

Trust - Researchers keep control of the cloud and their dataGuarantee a copy of all the data is kept on public resourcesEnsure long-term preservation of the dataInsulate users from changes of service supplier and technology

Economy - Must be cheaper than the ‘build our own’ approachAvoid separate ‘silos’ for each Research Infrastructure/CommunityProfit from the economies of scale in commercial data centres

Innovation – enabling cross-domain interactions Fostering scientific exchange resulting in new science http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16140

Ensuring sustainability : Building INFOaaSScience interfacing with private sector

Helix Nebula Ecosystem

Customer

Customer

Customer

€

€

€

€

• Lower upfront investment

• Fast access to EO and other geo-data resources

• Disruptive technology

• Risk and profit sharing

Satellite data(ESA/Copernicus)

Data

Content Provider

(Research)

Knowledge

GEO-IT & AppProvider (SME)

Tools

Service Provider (Industry)

Computing & IT

Customer

Information

• Sustainability • Data Value Chain

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Need for an overarching architecture

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Next steps: Amalgamate current activities within HNI to create a sustainable European cross-domain environment

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Helix Nebula Ecosystem

INFOaaS marketplace

Public Procurement

Branded Products

European Open Science Cloud

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Thanks !

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