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HNSciCloud PROTOTYPE PHASE AWARDMarc-Elian Begin

03 April 2017

Helix Nebula Science Cloud Phase 2 Award

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Helix Nebula Science Cloud Phase 2 Award 2

Only multi-cloud hybrid strategy can deliver:at scalein a cost effective manner

Built on pure IaaS to ensure no-lock-in and market pricing, and withminimum intrusion into the Buyers’ infrastructures

Building an open and European platform for science data exploitation

OUR VISION

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Established Partnerships

OVERVIEW

RHEA: Prime contractor, proven management of large contracts for institutional customers, cyber security experts

T-Systems: Leading European Public Cloud provider working with CERN and other institutions, GÉANT connection

Exoscale: Dynamic, innovative cloud provider worked with CERN, GÉANT connection

SixSq: SlipStream/Nuvla; brokerage and automated multi-cloud application deployment

Cyfronet: Providing IT services to research teams and educational institutions and Onedata for Data Management

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We start from a production service: innovate -> demonstrate -> collect feedback -> improve

We build on established, market-leading cloud services

You enhance your community or private cloud with access to public cloud services

You create cloud native applications to take full advantage of the cloud, or

You drop-in your application as is

… Any App to Any Cloud!

Network-aware, multi-cloud, agnostic environment

WORKING TOGETHER

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Deliver throughput from home institute to the cloud

Deliver throughput from data source to the VM

Provide a TRUE hybrid cloud able to integrate Buyers Group private clouds or academic clouds (EGI)

Support a wide range of applications

Support different data layout and access patterns

Integrate containers and their management solutions with ease

Provide seamless user access and security through single sign-on

… with minimum complexity!

Deliver end-to-end optimised platform and data throughput

CHALLENGES

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Support all connection means

Direct, libcloud, jcloud, terraform, native API

Reporting, Accounting & Management

By User, Project, Organisation

Service Level Agreement Monitoring

Define SLA inspired by SLALOM

Identity & Access Management

SAML 2.0, eduGAIN integration

GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct

Onedata, unified Data Management

Complementary partners, coherent solution, flexible implementation…

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

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Proven, innovative cloud service providers

IAAS CLOUD SERVICES

Exoscale

Apache CloudStack

Data centres in Switzerland, expanding to other European countries

Optimized for cloud-native applications

Open Telekom Cloud from T-Systems

Public Cloud, data centres in Germany, certified and audited

OpenStack and open standard APIs for all functions

Established, high-bandwidth network connectivity throughout Europe

Scientific use tested and verified by CERN

Cyfronet

Onedata integration and Data Management

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Cloud and dedicated HPC options

HPCAAS

IaaS based HPCaaS with

“Super VMs” from clusters of VMs with 24 vCPU (e.g. more than 256 vCPUs, more than 1TB RAM in a cluster)

Infiniband

GPUs

Providing optimised performance in virtualised environments

Access through GÉANT

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Proven solution that provides:

MULTI-CLOUD AND HYBRID CLOUD

Choice of cloud based on price, performance, service guarantees, etc. without vendor lock-in

Transparent interoperability with your own community and private clouds

Fast deployment of new features and fixes supporting rapid innovation cycle

Automated deployment and dynamic management of applications to minimize costs and maximize performance

True multi-cloud application support to take advantage of geo-redundancy, fail-over, etc.

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LARGE DATA SETS

Deliver POSIX and Object Store access to wide range of data sets

Understand scalability, performance

Integrate existing tools/services

Optional: Direct Object Store access

Meet data protection norms

GDPR compliance

ISO 27xxx series

Provide access while protecting data…

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GÉANT NETWORK CONNECTIVITY

T-Systems connected via DFN NREN (Frankfurt) and SURFNET (Amsterdam)

Exoscale connected via CIXP

Currently connected at 10 Gbps (2x)

Committed to deliver 40 Gbps for Phase 3

Need support from GEANT and its community to interconnect commercial cloud providers to better support European Science

Efficient data access relies on fast networking…

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CONTAINER SUPPORT

Recipes to facilitate scalable deployments of standard container management tools

Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, …

Provide transparent access to virtualization technologies

Additional tools possible

Reducing complexity and overheads

… your feedback needed!

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BUSINESS MODEL & COMMERCIALISATION

Previous R&D developments commercialised: Software Services & Products

Widest possible choices, avoid vendor lock-in

Evolution of Helix Nebula Marketplace, incorporating lessons learned

New service options proposed to meet Buyers Group needs

Buyers group need to consider new procurement models to realise the full benefits of “as a Service” cloud delivery

Ready to offer this service to science communities on a commercial basis during Phase 2

A Proven Track Record

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Solution brings together production products and services into coherent analysis platform

Established players in cloud ecosystem

Proven delivery within Helix Nebula

Extend existing capabilities to meet the needs of large-scale, scientific data analysis

Provided “as a Service”

Consortium led by SMEs delivering innovation at scale

Establishing an open foundation for the European Science Cloud

We deliver a flexible and commercial platform for science data exploitation

GOING FORWARD

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