The document outlines consultation input on cloud computing research innovation challenges related to the European Open Science Cloud. It discusses the establishment of a multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure, governance structures, and funding schemes necessary for various research applications. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of integrating policies for trust, security, and privacy while promoting a flexible economic model for sustainable cloud services.

1. Input to Consultation on Cloud
Computing Research Innovation
Challenges
7 November 2016
Bob Jones
CERN
Bob.Jones@cern.ch
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2. European Open Science Cloud
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https://bit.ly/cloudeu
How can H2020 LEIT ICT Work Programme 2018-2020
contribute to the European Open Science Cloud?

3. Strategic Plan
 Establish multi-
tenant, multi-
provider cloud
infrastructure
 Identify and
adopt policies for
trust, security
and privacy
 Create
governance
structure
 Define funding
schemes
To support the
computing capacity
needs for the ATLAS
experiment
Setting up a new
service to simplify
analysis of large
genomes, for a
deeper insight into
evolution and
biodiversity
To create an Earth
Observation
platform, focusing on
earthquake and
volcano research
To improve the
speed and quality of
research for finding
surrogate biomarkers
based on brain
images
Adopters
Suppliers
Additional Users:
Updated
October 2016
The Helix Nebula Science Cloud
public-private partnership
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This input based on experience gathered by Helix Nebula members

4. The Hybrid Cloud Model
Brings together
• research organisations,
• data providers,
• publicly funded e-
infrastructures,
• commercial cloud service
providers
In a hybrid cloud with
procurement and governance
approaches suitable for the
dynamic cloud market In-house
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Cloud technologies exist but the
• Integration & Scalability
• Policy & Governance
requires R&D

5. Integration and Scalability
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Exascale data
mgmt. services
Tools &
techniques so
legacy s/w can
exploit new
architectures
(not only HPC)

6. HNSciCloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement
Procurers: CERN, CNRS, DESY, EMBL-EBI, ESRF,
IFAE, INFN, KIT, STFC, SURFSara
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
Resulting services will be made available to end-
users from many research communities
Co-funded via H2020 Grant Agreement 687614
Total procurement budget >5M€
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Co-design & development of innovative cloud services in public-private partnerships

7. http://www.hnscicloud.eu/events/hnscicloud-pcp-tender-results-announcement-ceremony-design-phase-kick-2-november-2016-lyon
PCP/PPI can achieve the same innovation objectives
as Contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPP)

8. HNSciCloud commodity
PCP commodity
Procurement roadmap
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‘Starting bottom-up is essential to get the core technical, financial, and policy principles right. IaaS can be introduced
without impacting higher-level user-facing services that will require a significant software investment. It also
represents a strategy with lower risk because the IaaS market is more mature than the PaaS and SaaS markets.’
EIROforum paper
IaaS
PaaS/SaaS
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
PICSE
Procurement
model
2021 2022
Use PCP/PPI to grow the EOSC cloud platform in a
predictable yet competitive manner

9. N
N+1
N+2
Staying up to date
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The average lifetime of IT technology is less than 5 years.
5 years
5 years
5 years
Repeat investment over successive technology cycles
to keep the EOSC cloud platform up to date and relevant

10. • Funding
agencies
• Research
Infrastructures
• Public E-infrastructures
& Commercial Cloud
Service Providers (CSPs)
• Users
Data &
software
Service
providers
Funding &
policy
Data
providers,
Comm.
channel to
users
How an EOSC Cloud services market
could function
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Service sustainability will rely on an economic model with a flexible payment scheme that allows
researchers to have free-at-the-point-of-use access while providing a means to route money from
multiple funding sources to service providers according to metered usage by end-users
Build a service marketplace where service
providers can participate & compete

11. https://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/ncip/nci-cancer-genomics-cloud-pilots/cloud-credits
Associate a voucher scheme with EOSC marketplace to encourage
uptake of cloud services by researchers & SMEs

12. Policy and Governance
Establish
Cloud Certification schemes
Practical & Equitable Service Level Agreements
Data-intensive cloud service benchmarks
Market mechanisms to encourage cloud service
uptake
That are easy to adopt and General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) aware/compliant
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