1. Steven Newhouse Project Director, EGI.eu
Plans for PY2
Steven Newhouse
Project Director, EGI.eu
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2. Future Plans - EGI-InSPIRE Review 2011
Overview
ERIC Adoption
Sustainability
VRC User Support Platform
Clouds & Virtualisation
EGI-InSPIRE DoW Changes
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3. 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
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4. 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:
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5. 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: & Workshop EGITF
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. 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)
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9. 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
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10. Production Infrastructure
Full integration of new middleware types:
Globus
UNICORE
Integration of new resource types:
Focusing on virtualised & desktop resources
Primarily around accounting & monitoring
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11. Integration of Clouds and Virtualisation into EGI
DCI Collaborative Roadmap
D2.4:
State of the art report
D2.6:
EGI Cloud Integration Profile
Draft
User Virtualisation Workshop
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12. 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)
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13. A Virtualised Ecosystem
EMI & IGE
VO Specific Operations Staff
EGI-InSPIRE
StratusLab
VENUS-C
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14. 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
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15. 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:
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16. 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
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17. 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
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18. (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
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19. 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
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