Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action funded by H2020 Framework Programme

Overview

2 November 2016Bob Jones

CERNIT department

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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

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The Hybrid Cloud ModelBrings together• research organisations,• data providers,• publicly funded e-

infrastructures,• commercial cloud service

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In a hybrid cloud with procurement and governance approaches suitable for the dynamic cloud market In-house

PCP PPI

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Why PCP?Commercial IaaS exists but not certified, integrated with public e-infrastructures, offering std interfaces with suitable SLA and contractual terms & conditions.

PPIPotential follow-on project if this PCP project is successful

Helix Nebula Science Cloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement

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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 >5.3M€

HNSciCloud project phases

Preparation

•Analysis of requirements, current market offers and relevant standards

•Build stakeholder group

•Develop tender material

Implementation and sharing

Jan’16 Dec’18

Each step is competitive - only contractors that successfully complete the previous step can bid in the next

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4 Designs3 Prototypes

2 Pilots

Call-off Feb’17

Call-off Oct’17

Tender Jul’16

What will be procuredA hybrid cloud platform for the European research community

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Combining services at the IaaS level to support science workflows

The R&D services to be developed are to be integrated withResources in data centres operated by the buyers group

GEANT network

ChallengesInnovative IaaS level cloud services integrated with procurers in-house resources and public e-infrastructure to support a range of scientific workloads

Compute and Storagesupport a range of virtual machine and container configurations including HPC working with datasets in the petabyte range

Network Connectivity and Federated Identity Managementprovide high-end network capacity via GEANT for the whole platform with common identity and access management

Service Payment Modelsexplore a range of purchasing options to determine those most appropriate for the scientific application workloads to be deployed

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The story so far . . .

Open Market Consultation17 March 2016

Tender published21 July200+ downloads

Information Day7 SeptemberResponse to 70+ questions about the tender material

Tender Deadline19 SeptemberBids received from 28 international companies, SMEs andpublic organisations

Contract AwardCeremony2 NovemberBased on tender evaluation against published criteria by experts from the Buyers group

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