Brief introduction to the HNSciCloud Pre-Commercial Procurement and the Information Session

2. Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre‐Commercial Procurement Action funded by H2020 Framework
Programme
Phase 1 Tender Information Day
Introduction
7 September 2016
Bob Jones
CERN IT department
Robert.Jones@cern.ch
06/09/2016

3. Logistics
IT Ampitheatre
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people in their offices
Bathrooms are on the same floor at the other end of
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Taxi
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306/09/2016

4. HNSciCloud Joint Pre‐Commercial Procurement
Bob Jones, CERN 4
Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL‐EBI, ESRF,
IFAE, INFN, KIT, SURFSara, STFC
Experts: Trust‐IT & EGI.eu
The group of procurers have committed
• Procurement funds
• Manpower for testing/evaluation
• Use‐cases with applications & data
• In‐house IT resources
To procure innovative IaaS level cloud services
integrated into a hybrid cloud model
• Commercial cloud services
• European e‐Infrastructures
Services will be made available to end‐users
from many research communities
Co‐funded via H2020 Grant Agreement 687614
Total procurement budget >5M€

5. What will be procured
A hybrid cloud platform for the European research community
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HNSciCloud
PCP
Source: CloudComputingfor Govies, DLT Solutions,
David Blankenhorn, Van Ristauand Caron Beesley
Combining services at the IaaS level to support science workflows
The R&D services to be developed are to be integrated with
Resources in data centres operated by the buyers group
European‐scale publicly funded e‐Infrastructures

6. How did we get here?
Open
Market
Consultation
17 March
Tender published
21 July
200+ downloads
70+ requests for clarification
Information
Session
7 September
Tender Deadline
19 September
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7. Objective of this meeting
Explain those aspects of the PCP process, tender
and contractual framework that have been the
subject of Requests for Clarification
The documented responses to the Requests for
Clarifications are considered part of the tender
material
No further Requests for Clarification will be
accepted but we will consider including any
additional significant clarifications that are raised in
today’s session
Bob Jones, CERN7

8. Agenda for today
Bob Jones, CERN8
Information session (13:30 ‐ 16:00 CET)
This session is being webcast.
Request for Tender – Christophe Veys (CERN)
Framework Agreement – Karen Ernst (CERN)
Functional Requirements – Helge Meinhard (CERN)
Q/A

9. Accelerating Science and InnovationAccelerating Science and Innovation