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 The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under Grant Agreement no Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/

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 Identifying a 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/Logica, CloudSigma, EGI.eu, Interoute, SixSq, The Server Labs and T- Systems) declared their intention to deliver easy access to a range of commercial Cloud Services Bob Jones - CERN2

HNX & Business Potential Suppliers are offering HNX services to diverse sectors: Electronics Aerospace Oil and gas Automotive manufacturing National research organisation(s) Insurance Pharmaceuticals Earth sciences Biomedical Bob Jones - CERN3

Additional investments made The HNX suppliers have invested more than €2.5m (in addition to the investment of the FP7 project) in Helix Nebula related activities to create and operate the production environment Bob Jones - CERN4

Maintaining the FP7 project artifacts Trust-IT will maintain and update the HN website until the end of 2014 EMBL will maintain the AlfrescoShare collaboration site until the end of 2014 EGI.eu will continue offering the mailman tool, which hosts 21 Helix Nebula 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

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 The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under Grant Agreement no Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/

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 Continue deployment testing of the large-scale genome analysis platform for full-scale automation of on-demand HPC provisioning CERN: Test the hybrid cloud model linking the Helix Nebula suppliers with EGI FedCloud & GEANT using ATLAS Monte Carlo simulation code Explore the procurement of IT resources for the LHC computing grid 7Bob Jones - CERN

Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), Barcelona Analyse what improvements are needed for them to adopt the HNX model EC DIGIT EUROPA web-based application under review ECMWF and UNESCO Paused while they identify the funding model New Flagships 8Bob Jones - CERN

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

Public e-infrastructure interoperability EGI.eu and selected EGI Federated Cloud providers will continue testing the integration with SlipStream Blue Box GÉANT: 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 public research related 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” Following-on from Helix Nebula experience, EGI Fed Cloud and GÉANT (OCX) intend to offer hybrid public-commercial cloud services to their user communities Bob Jones - CERN10

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

Procurement Background Effort and costs of developing the HNX platform were underestimated 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

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 - CERN13 Provide an innovation platform to reduce barriers in the publicly funded research sector Focus of a future H2020 proposal (EINFRA 2014 call)

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 - CERN14

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 - CERN15

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 The Helix Nebula project is co-funded by the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under Grant Agreement no Members of the Helix Nebula consortiumCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licensehttp://helix-nebula.eu/

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 - CERN17 Some developments to be supported by Xzelcloud EC proposal submitted to call ICT-7

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