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Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America

THE CLARA SERVICE MODEL AND BUSINESS PLAN FOR GRID

Salma Jalife (CUDI-México)

and

Luis A. Núñez (CLARA, UIS-Colombia/ULA-Venezuela)

2nd Project Review

Brussels, 8/12/2011

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Outline

• The Evolution from Grid Services to Advanced Computing (AC) Services

• CLARA Advanced Computing Services and Science Gateway

• Cost and Methodology

• Conclusions/Actions

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CLARA Advanced Computing Services

• AC Expertise Transfer. Technical Consulting to assist in house applications– Customising an existing application to profit the existing AC e-infrastructure

– Developing in house new applications required by the customer organisation (Research, Industry or NREN)

• SDK/SourFourge Training To increase the awareness on the AC environments

• Wizard for basic applications. Allows the less expert users and/or NREN to install their applications

• Federated Authentication Resources. Grant authorized access to use the federated resources at a continental scale

• Application Shelf Service: Application Shelf Allows the users, industrial partner and/or NREN to contract computing resources

• Virtual Resources Grid Allocation. Virtual services e-infrastructure, such as:– Allocation of AC resources allowing the member institutions to configure AC environments

(cores/storage/network provisioning) and elements needed to execute their applications

– Running Services records, tracking the processes submitted to the e-infrastructure

• Data Preservation Services. Offer the possibility to store their data for a period of time

• Training and Capacity Building Service. To increases the usage and the culture of Advanced Computing Services by providing people the information and the skills needed to access the AC Services

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Science Gateway Service Centric Model

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CLARA Grid VRC Organisational Model

NOC

Regional NOC+NOC

NOC

NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)

CLARA

Country LA–1

REUNA

Country LA–2

Country LA–N

GOC

GOC

Regional GOC+GOC

NGI or EDGS

NGI or EDGS

NGI or EDGS

APPLICATIONS MANAGER

Grid Community Coordinator

Complex Model

Cooperative Broker Model

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A Regional Cooperative Solution Offers

User

Grid

ScienceGatewa

y

Authentication

Cloud

Virtual Instruments

Virtual Servers

Commercial

Providers

• On demand resources (Hardware, Software & Manware) from the research groups to the research groups

• High bandwidth and low latency from the Experimental academic advanced Networks

• Replicating other services in the RedCLARA Operational Structure

• Added value to the existent infrastructure

• Better use of the existent computational infrastructure and expertise from different countries

• Promoting local middleware solutions better suited for the region

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VRC VRC Check Service

Description

Check Service

Description

RedCLARA RedCLARA

RC RC

Submit

Service

Request

Submit

Service

Request

Consult the

Advance Computing

Resources Available

Consult the

Advance Computing

Resources Available

Find the

Suitable

Resources

Find the

Suitable

Resources

Send the VR

availability

Send the VR

availability

Shows BudgetShows Budget

Login &

Send Data

Login &

Send Data

Data

Processing

Data

Processing

Accept

Budget

OUT

Elaborates

contract

Register

and login

Register

and login

Virtual Resource on demand

22

Yes

Data

Storage

Data

Storage

Consult

Data

Consult

Data

Read

Data

Read

Data

Display

Basic View

Display

Basic View

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Grid

ScienceGateway

Developer

Administrator

Autentication

User

Cloud

Virtual Instruments

Virtual Servers

CLARA Grid-VRC Support ModelScience Gateway Centric Model

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Regional Competitive Solution

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Business Model Parameters RC Profit Margin % 300%RedCLARA Profit Margin 60%% RedCLARA Capacity 30%Max-Cores- GISELA Capacity 1794MAX-Cores-RedCLARA Capacity 538Max Num days/year (80% UpTime) 292Hours per day 24

RedCLARA Price € 0.17

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Two Examples of RC Costs (€)

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Operation Evolution

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SERVUCTION & Operational Profit

• First, Second year of operation after GISELA. • ½ FTE for administrative purposes as contracts, billing and expenditures

• ½ FTE for technical support

• 1 FTE fore marketing and sales

• Third year (1 FTE - Administrative, 1 FTE - Technical and 1 FTE – sales)

Fix

ed

Costs

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Business Model Supported by 3 Actions

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SG Technical Capacities

Funding sources

from S&T Agencies

Marketing toward VRC/User

Communties

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Conclusions & Actions (1/2)

• The service architecture based on SG centric model includes all possible services to be offered by RedCLARA

• The cooperative share cost broker model is economically viable and competitive with the present commercial offer

• It has been validated with the – Directors on NRENs at the RedCLARA Assembly (Oct 27th )

Need to be explained to the S&T Agencies Need to be aligned with National Initiatives Good idea: 30% National capacity to be share regional + Funds for RC Need to be related with other EU projects (RISC, CHAIN, ProIdeal)

– Application Committee (Nov 18th ) Need to allow the possibility to “credit cores” for research projects Need to allow possibility to offer 5% financed resources for good

proposals with no funding opportunities

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Conclusions & Actions (2/2)

• RedCLARA Assembly (Nov. 10th , 2011) and RedCLARA Board Meeting (Dec. 2nd , 2011) recommended to:

– Evaluate the cost/performance of the GISELA e-infrastructure– Convince two or three candidates to start/test the model– Look for funding for the test period (~2 years)

• Develop a LA Call for SG Task Force

– Training at LA and EU technical people from ve, co, pe, mx, ec.– F2f meeting and Workshop at the GISELA Conference

• Aggressive plan to interact with LA Science & Technology Agencies (ar, cl, mx, pe, ec, co, ve)

• Marketing strategy aiming to VRC and ComCLARA Communities

• CLARA Market Study for Cloud Services for standard computing services

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