Steven Newhouse Project Director, EGI.eu Plans for PY2 Steven Newhouse Project Director, EGI.eu Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 Overview ERIC Adoption Sustainability VRC User Support Platform Clouds & Virtualisation EGI-InSPIRE DoW Changes Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 ERIC Survey Results European Research Infrastructure Consortium A common e-Infrastructure ERIC proposal Better than ERIC’s for HPC, networking, data, …? Lightweight coordination of the infrastructure Not focusing on equipment purchase A subset of current participants would be OK Not all NGIs will be able to commit to an ERIC Submission in 2013 Need more discussions and consensus building Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 ERIC: Next Steps Promote e-Infrastructures Target national funding bodies & governments Good investment towards sustainability Closer national e-Infrastructure cooperation Dialogue with EC RTD ERIC Team Move D2.11 PM17PM29 More details: MS212: http://go.egi.eu/244 Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 Sustainability What do you need to sustain? Human: governance, events, requirements, … Infrastructure: accounting, monitoring, helpdesk, … Technical: applications DB, training marketplace, … What are the available business models? How meterable is the service being consumed? How optional is the consumption of the service? How identifiable is the consumer & provider? Explore different funding models Public grants, subscriptions, freemium, … D2.7: https://go.egi.eu/313 & Workshop EGITF Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Expected Business Model Operating Business to Business (B2B) Services to resource providers (NGIs/EIROs) Services to virtual research communities These organisations linked to customers Facilitate Business to Consumer (B2C) model Support rebranding of service by NGIs & VRCs Similar model as the networking community Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 NGI Business Model Many on short-term recurring project funding Public funds from research councils 60% of the NGIs are not independent entities Instead hosted within a larger parent organisation Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 VRC Business Model Challenging for traditional EGI communities Medium & smaller VRC: usage decreasing Larger EGI communities Leveraging NGI based resources VRC needs: Access to resources through services (EGI.eu) Coordination services to build communities (EGI.eu) Integration of resources EGI (VRCs with local NGIs) Domain specific middleware & applications (VRC) Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 VRC Support Strategy EGI VRC User Support Platform Embeddable centrally provided services Easy to adopt in NGI or VRC portals Central services provide network effect Share services, applications and tools Developed by EGI VRCs for EGI VRCs Reuse & adapt the work of others Open process seeded by NA3 & SA3 Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Production Infrastructure Full integration of new middleware types: Globus UNICORE Integration of new resource types: Focusing on virtualised & desktop resources Primarily around accounting & monitoring Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Integration of Clouds and Virtualisation into EGI DCI Collaborative Roadmap D2.4: http://go.egi.eu/172 State of the art report D2.6: http://go.egi.eu/258 EGI Cloud Integration Profile Draft http://go.egi.eu/435 User Virtualisation Workshop http://go.egi.eu/uvw1 Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

A Virtualised Future? Experts (Communicating between users & providers) End-User Technology Experts (National, European & Global Collaborations) VO Specific Operations Staff End-Users (National, European & Global Collaborations) Virtual Research Community Infrastructure Providers Infrastructure Providers (Research & Commerical – National, European & Global) Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

A Virtualised Ecosystem EMI & IGE VO Specific Operations Staff EGI-InSPIRE StratusLab VENUS-C Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 Roadmap to an EGI Cloud No ‘big-bang’ migration Gradual change transparent to the end-user Clearly identifies the role of the expert Allows experts to deploy & configure services Experts already residing in the NGIs and VRCs Increases the flexibility of the infrastructure Meet the different needs of current users Increases accessibility for other communities Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Digital Agenda for Europe Borderless Services Interoperability Supporting Innovation remove barriers to the free movement of knowledge “Europe should also build its innovative advantage in key areas through reinforced e-Infrastructures (i.e. GEANT & EGI)” Digital Agenda for Europe EGI’s role in EU2020: http://go.egi.eu/317 Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Significant Changes PY2 D2.11 EGI.eu transition plan to ERIC Move from PM17 to PM29 Establish a meeting support fund For partners with small effort in small NGIs Reallocate funds from EMBL & UPT PY1 Extend TJRA1.3 into PY2 Regionalisation of the Operational Tools Workplan delayed by inter-tool dependencies Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 EGI.eu Participants Contribution to EGI.eu €6M over 4 years Planned: €1.0M, €1.33M, €1.66M & €2.0M Support of central technical activities Move support by the EC to the EGI community EGI Council decision: September 2010 Contributions FY2011 remain at €1.0M EGI Council decision: April 2011 FY 2012 & 2013: €2.0M Participants can match their fees to votes Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

(performed once for all) Need to re-profile EC payments EGI.eu Funding Model No changes being made Total expenditure €2.6M/year Includes EGI Global Tasks EGI Global Tasks (not EGI.eu) EC: 25% EGI.eu: 25% Partner: 50% EGI.eu Management: 100% EC European Commission EGI-InSPIRE (25000K) Partner Tasks (International & EGI Global Tasks) (65848K) NGIs & EIROs (49455K) EGI.eu NGI Activity EGI-InSPIRE Central Budget (597K) 43455K This moves EGI.eu towards sustainability 597K From EC EGI Global Tasks (performed once for all) 4653K EGI.eu Activity (8010K) 2643K 19750K 6000K Need to re-profile EC payments EGI.eu EGI Global Tasks PY1 & 2: 80% PY3 & 4: 35% Remains within EC legal limits Remains within current budget From EGI.eu participants To EGI Global Tasks Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011

Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011 Future Plans - Summary Confirm EC Contribution payment profile Establish project wide collaboration fund For small NGIs to build EGI community links Use funds from inactive partners in PY1 Sustainability within ERIC to be explored Integration of virtualisation resources Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011