This document produced by Members of the Helix Nebula Partners and 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 WP6 – Inter-operability with e-Infrastructures Period 1 Review Sergio Andreozzi (WP6 Task Leader) Strategy and Policy Manager, EGI.eu

WP Objectives Identifying the interoperation and integration issues between commercial cloud infrastructures and publicly owned pan-European e-infrastructures for technology and policy issues in order to define a roadmap for their integration with commercial cloud computing resources Specific goals Understanding the interoperation and integration issues around technology and policy between commercial cloud infrastructures and publicly owned e- Infrastructures: GEANT: a pan-European network for the research and education community built on a federation of European NRENs: National Research and Education Networks EGI: a pan-European federation of resource centres organised into National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) PRACE: a federation of peta-scale and high-end computing centres across Europe EUDAT: a project exploring the data services and support needed in Europe for the European Research Area Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP62

Effort Contribution Lead Beneficiary: EGI.eu Person-Months per Participant ParticipantPerson- months EGI.eu13.00 TOTAL13.00 PM24PM1 WP6 Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP63 Budget to support workshops Total13,000E Used3,769E

Deliverables and Milestones – Period 1 TypeNo.NameNatureDissemination level Date Delivered Deliverable6.1Interoperability requirements reports ReportPU21/05/2013 Milestone14 Kick-off meeting engaging public and commercial resource providers ReportPU12/10/2012 Milestone15 Technical Workshop ReportPU07/03/2013 Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP64

Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Interoperability workshops “3 workshops each for 50 people and a core group of participants involved in the preparation of the roadmap” (from Description of Work) 1 st Workshop co-located with the EGI Technical Forum 2012 Prague (Czech Republic), 19 Sep 2012 ∼ 70 participants 2 nd Workshop co-located with the 2 nd Helix Nebula General Assembly Frascati (Italy), 16 Jan participants 3 rd Workshop planned with the EGI Technical Forum 2013, Madrid, Sep 2013 Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP65

Establishment of communication channels across the different communities DANTE: joined the Helix Nebula Consortium (Oct 2012) SWITCH (Swiss NREN): joined the Helix Nebula Consortium (Jan 2013) EGI: key representatives from EGI Federated Cloud actively participating in the discussion EUDAT: Helix Nebula representatives will attend the EUDAT Conference in Oct 2013 PRACE: to be approached during the second year to understand integration scenarios between clouds and high-end HPC resources Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP66 Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Communication Channels with e-Infrastructures

Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP67 DANTE offering free IP connectivity in GÉANT for research traffic during the pilot phase NRENs have different commercial agreements (usually they apply a fee) Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Connecting commercial providers to the GÉANT/NRENs

Analysed and proposed three integration scenarios between commercial clouds and e-Infrastructures Initially focusing on EGI and DANTE/NRENs Framed the analysis around the European Interoperability Framework V2 Levels: Political context, legal, organisational, semantic, technical Defined 17 high-level recommendations agreed with stakeholders Drafted an initial list of actions for implementation with evaluation of feasibility based on available resources Engagement on these recommendations and actions implementation will be further developed at the 3rd WP6 workshop (Madrid, September 2013) Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP68 Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Defining the Interoperability Roadmap

Identification of a test case to evaluate interoperability with EGI Federated Cloud Approach In collaboration with CERN, deploy the CMS/ATLAS flagship use case Use the same evaluation criteria adopted for deployment on commercial suppliers Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP69 Scientific/technical achievements and their impact Testing the interoperability EGI Federated Cloud Task Force Launched in Sep members from 40 institutions and 13 countries Pre-production test-bed: 14 resource centres actively providing resources (900 cores, 16 TB storage) 30 active users from structural biology, linguistics, ecology, space science, software engineering

Exploitation and use of foreground Identified recommendations are relevant for policy makers e.g.: see presentation at last e-IRG workshop Identified recommendations and actions can influence strategic and technical decisions of both publicly-funded infrastructures and commercial providers e.g.: common technical standards profile, common standards for services managements in federated environments, common service catalogue Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP610

Collaboration with other beneficiaries Other WP representatives attended the WP6 workshops to ensure cross-WP collaboration WP6 participated in the business model innovation workshops organised by WP7 to support the design of business models that include e-Infrastructures WP6 participated in WP8 activities to share experience in governance and contribute requirements from WP6 viewpoint Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP611

Interaction with other FP7 projects, and stakeholders outside the consortium FedSM Service level management of federated infrastructure Participated in both WP6 workshops as speaker; collaboration in defining/implementing one of the recommendations e-FISCAL Cost assessment of public funding HTC/HPC infrastructures and comparison with commercial cloud offerings Participated in the first WP6 workshop as speaker, knowledge transfer in the area of cost and business models EGI-InSPIRE EGI Federated Cloud, main stakeholder at WP6 workshops from public funded infrastructures; dialogues at all level from political to technical GEANT3+ Collaboration around Software Defined Network (SDN) Information exchange about High-level framework for multi-cloud infrastructures Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP612

Contribution to the dissemination of project results Co-location of two out of three WP6 Interoperability workshops with EGI Forums to maximise exposure Support to dissemination of news, events, results via social media channels Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP613

Summary Successful organisation of two interoperability workshops, planned for the third Established communication channels between key players Connected two commercial providers to GÉANT/NRENs Defined key high-level recommendations and identified initial actions for implementations Defined a test case to evaluate the interoperability with EGI Good engagement with project beneficiaries and with relevant EC-funded projects Helix Nebula - The Science Cloud - WP614