Public Clouds and GEO Science ​ Micheál Higgins CloudSigma GEOSS 2013

Big Science and Big Data Public Cloud should be a disruptive technology for Scientific Research ! Global access to GEO Data for all PI’s Elasticity and Scale-on-demand compute Data-as-a-Service Science PaaS – the software tools for investigation already packaged, licensed (pay-per-use) and ready to run Transparent and seamless networking Cost control – pay-per-use, quotas

Big Science and Big Data Federated multi-cloud architecture CloudSigma is strongly committed to Helix Nebula BlueBox disintermediation Catalog of Services and Costs Networking critical to effective service delivery Europe in unique position with highly advanced academic networking and connectivity Inject vitality of commercial public cloud providers offering value-added services that leverage high speed data access over the GEANT network staying within the non- compete remit of GEANT (i.e. for academic users)

Helix Nebula Helix Nebula FP7 – The Science Cloud Commercial Public Clouds and Big Science Cloud vendors sitting behind a common access, identity and provisioning platform for ease of use Opportunity for more the fragmented European market to offer scale and cost control to scientific computing users PLUS service specialization There is no one single cloud solution, purveyors of perfect solutions to everything make us nervous!

CloudSigma Vision Project Correlation Goal: Help make DATA into INFORMATION We will host Big Data for low or no cost Interface to Big Data providers Encourage data owners to offer credits to PI’s Provide cloud compute to researchers / PI’s Enable DaaS across: many clouds, many databases, many scientific domains Cost scaling (e.g. results in: 1h, 1d, 1w) Enhance Correlation outcomes……

CloudSigma Vision Project Correlation Enhance Correlation outcomes…… ESA: EO/SAR Soil moisture sensor + WHO: Malaria fatalities + CSO: Population density map = Better mosquito eradication programs Ethical Computing !!!

CloudSigma Vision Global Data Catalog and Discovery Search Engine Common Meta-data and Keys Remote query coordination (don't move the whole database) GEANT Connected and Peered Network Cloud 2 Data Provider CloudSigma EO WHO POP Happy PI

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CloudSigma Vision Map + EO + Fatalities 25% 35% 25%

CloudSigma Vision Map + EO + Fatalities + Population 25% 35% 25% 3m 2m2m

CloudSigma Vision Map + EO + Fatalities + Population 25% 35% 25% 3m 2m2m Correlation

Correlations  Correlations can be Commercial and/or Ethical  Soil Moisture + Price of wheat = Food secure world  Sea currents + Salinity = Sustainable village fishing  Proteins + Drug trial = Safer medical outcomes  Subsidence + Pop density = Better insurance focus  Proton collisions + Particle mass = Higgs boson  Ash flow + Winds aloft = Micheal not stranded in Sofia

VLAN Oracle 11g/12i MSSQL MySQL etc. RHEL & OEL MS Windows 2008 & 2012 Linux & Solaris Any x86 O/S VPN, Firewall, Load Balancer etc. Pay-per-use or Open Source Pay-per-use 10Gbs Private Cross-connect Customer IP addresses Active Directory / LDAP No Internet Exposure Customer Co-location and/or On Premises Security Policies Block/Allow Port and IP Level White/Black Lists No Server restart Multiple Internet Pipes All SSD Storage Static IP Marketplace A Cloud of Services Quest Backup Oracle Linux and Databases Red Hat Enterprise Firewalls Load Balancers VNC’s MS Windows & SQL All Linux distributions Rendering Transcoding Media Workflow HPC Libraries Solaris and FreeBSD Any x86 O/S Pay-per-use Customer Licenses Cloud Locations ( ) Zurich-A, Zurich-B, Las Vegas, Ashburn Virginia, Amsterdam, London SSD