1. Summary and future directions Bob Jones, CERN Helix Nebula Review 26 June 2014 This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula consortium is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://helix-nebula.eu/. The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no 312301Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/

2. Main achievements At the end of a two year pilot phase, the Helix Nebula EC FP7 project has fulfilled its goal of enabling a federated cloud service across Europe through: The successful deployment of several scientific flagship applications The establishment of a production platform providing a basis for future expansion Tracing the path for an ecosystem to transform scientific data into valuable information Expanding the consortium from 20 to 41 members and adapting the governance framework to the public-private marketplace The CERN, ESA and EMBL flagship use cases drove the transition from pilot phase to production of HNX: Launched at the Helix Nebula public event from cloud‐active to cloud‐productive hosted by CERN on 14 May 2014 The European cloud service providers supporting HNX (Atos/Canopy, CGI, CloudSigma, EGI, Interoute, SixSq, The Server Labs and T-Systems) declared their intention to deliver easy access to a range of commercial Cloud Services http://hnx.helix-nebula.eu/index.html http://hnx.helix-nebula.eu/index.html Bob Jones - CERN2

3. HNX & business generated Similar services offered to other sectors: Atos: national research, electronics, aerospace, oil and gas, automotive manufacturing T- Systems: Insurance & pharmaceuticals CloudSigma: Hosting the Sentinal-1 data (Earth Observation SAR data) Partnered with CloudEO (HN Adopter) to deliver innovative Info-as-a-Service capabilities & other SMEs looking to use cloud infrastructure Built a solid work relationship with PICNICC Acquired 10Gbps connection to GEANT via Switch Bob Jones - CERN3

4. Investments and costs Atos: Creating and running a PoC environment, 2012 – 2013: total cost estimated at €1.8m HNX direct contribution/developments & running costs 2014 = €441k CloudSigma: Personnel + Indirect costs = €33k Bob Jones - CERN4

5. Maintaining the FP7 project artifacts Trust-IT will maintain and update the HN website until the end of 2014 EMBL will maintain the alfresco collaboration site until the end of 2014 EGI.eu will continue offering the mailman tool, which hosts 21 Helix Nebula email lists, for two more years CERN will maintain the open repository for all Helix Nebula documents on the CERN Doc. System (CDS) for a minimum of 2 years Bob Jones - CERN5

6. Future Directions This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula consortium is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://helix-nebula.eu/. The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no 312301Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/

7. The initial 3 flagships ESA: Carry on with the SSEP InfoaaS stimulus project: Initialising the marketplace Introducing cash-flow throughout the value chains EMBL: Continue testing the HNX EC2 bridge to support the ongoing maturation of this critical API Continue our deployment testing of the EMBL large-scale genome analysis platform towards full-scale automation of on-demand HPC provisioning on HNX federated cloud resources CERN: Test the hybrid cloud model linking the Helix Nebula suppliers with EGI FedCloud & GEANT (CERN ATLAS flagship) Work on the procurement of IT services for the LHC computing grid 7Bob Jones - CERN

8. Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), Barcelona Reduce costs and improve speed of delivery, increase volume and accuracy for Neuroimaging Requirements entered into the online tool Already deployed directly with CloudSigma EC DIGIT EUROPA web-based application under review New Flagships 8Bob Jones - CERN

9. Helix Nebula and the ECP Members of Helix Nebula are active in the Select Industry Groups: Service Level Agreements Code of Conduct Certification HN presented at/attended the Cloud for Europe consultation meetings with a view to taking part in the tender process for new innovations HN contributed to the Trusted Cloud Europe document Includes references to Helix Nebula as a contender to be a pilot implementation Bob Jones - CERN9

10. Public e-infrastructure interoperability EGI.eu and selected EGI Federated Cloud providers will continue testing the integration with SlipStream towards production state GÉANT offered to: Support the Helix Nebula production service through to the end of 2014, so as to integrate the HN suppliers into the GÉANT framework Support the HN Supplier-Supplier traffic during the next 6 months and measure its impact on the utilisation of GÉANT Establish with the HN suppliers a cloud service “GN3 Plus Support to Cloud” Bob Jones - CERN10

11. The Helix Nebula Initiative T-Systems committed to support the governance framework implementation ESA will host the next general assembly in November 2014, where the revised governance model is foreseen to be adopted Bob Jones - CERN11

12. Procurement Background Effort and costs of developing the HNX platform were under estimated by the suppliers This FP7 project was a CSA which excluded funding for technical developments Future developments could be a good match for a PCP scheme Consequence Proposal made to the EC under call ICT35 (f) to set up a procurement network of public research organisations - PICSE (Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe) Goal Create a reference framework for the public procurement of cloud services in which a European multi-tenant ‘Open Market Place for Science’ composed of data, scientists, funding bodies, SMEs and downstream industry meet to work towards common interests Beyond PICSE – lead to the creation of PCP/PPI actions focused on expanding the cloud services marketplace 12Bob Jones - CERN

13. Information as a Service Science domain interfacing with private sector supporting business model “Information as a Service” A number of pilot projects have been proposed to ESA, making use of their Earth Observation data ESA Thematic Exploitation Platforms (TEP) ITT has been launched, to create an environment where those projects can be accommodated, but which would also provide an ideal vehicle for further dissemination of the data from the newly- launched Copernicus Sentinel satellites Continuation with other FP7 projects on Supersites to establish a homogeneous ecosystem (Iceland, Italian Volcanoes) Bob Jones - CERN13

14. Information as a Service: Science interfacing with private sector Helix Nebula Marketplace Customer € € € € Lower upfront investment Fast access to EO and other geodata resources Disruptive technology Risk and profit sharing Satellite data (ESA/Copernicus) Satellite data (ESA/Copernicus) Data Content Provider (Research) Knowledge GEO-IT & App Provider (SME) GEO-IT & App Provider (SME) Tools Service Provider (Industry) Computing & IT Customer Information Sustainability Bob Jones - CERN14

15. The e-Infrastructure commons Marketplace Science workflows can be facilitated for all researchers through an e- Infrastructure commons Marketplace bringing together publicly funded e- infrastructures and data providers with commercial service providers: E-Infrastructure: Encompass Generic, Domain and Community specific services Commons: Open but governed to protect demand and supply side actors Marketplace: Pay for use mechanism for public and private sector suppliers Bob Jones - CERN15 Provide an innovation platform to reduce barriers in the publicly funded research sector

16. Evolution of HNX This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula consortium is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://helix-nebula.eu/. The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement no 312301Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/

17. Evolution of the HNX platform Enhancements: Develop platform delivery as a service: Unified contracting and billing structure Improve EGI and GEANT integration Smart Cities for regional engagement Innovation Vouchers Structured release plan for the upcoming months and years Application made to the EC for further funding to develop the required facilities: Project proposal XZELCloud Focus on real-world use cases such as Open City services Bob Jones - CERN17

18. Services HNX Infrastructure Blue Box Blue Box(es) Processing Storage Network IaaS Applications InfoaaS AppCrowd OpenCity InfoaaS AppCrowd OpenCity SaaS applications AppStores Discovery Composition Collaboration etc. Middleware Databases Metadata management Directories, FedIM SOA framework etc. Sector-specific frameworks Time Functionality PaaS Bob Jones - CERN18

19. Helix Nebula GA, CERN Geneva, May 201419 Roadmap: HNX 1.1 3Q 2014 Blue BoxSlipStream 2.2 APIFully documented CommercialAgreement Updates SLAsIaaS Provider Specific Multi-Provider SLA Support SupportAdditional Brokerage Functions IaaS CSPsAdditional Suppliers (+1-2) NetworkingAdvanced internet options (e.g. inter-cloud routing) EGIEGI FedCloud Integration CatalogueUpdates, alignment of units, T-Shirt sizing OtherNew user-level management Advanced Metering (e.g. Reservation/Burst) Enhanced usage and cost overview Online access to provider invoice detail incl. credits, discounts etc. (based on Fed IdM)

20. Helix Nebula GA, CERN Geneva, May 201420 Interoperability wish-list developed as D6.2 17 activities identified for future possible implementation

21. Helix Nebula GA, CERN Geneva, May 201421 Roadmap: HNX 1.2 4Q 2014 Blue BoxSlipStream 2.3 APIHNX API Bridge Updated for HNX API CommercialElectronic Contracting SLAsIaaS Provider Specific Multi-Provider SLA Support SupportAdditional Brokerage Functions IaaS CSPsAdditional Suppliers (+3-4) NetworkingGEANT Agreement Finalised EGIEGI FedCloud Integration CatalogueBroker IaaS Performance Profiling OtherPaaS functions Provisions for Information aaS

22. Helix Nebula GA, CERN Geneva, May 201422 HNX v1.2 (Q4 2014) GÉANT / Internet EC2 Bridge IaaS Broker AtosCloudSigmaInterouteT-Systems EGI FedCloud Marketplace Operator API New Provider new functions PaaS