These are the slides from a plenary panel that I participated in at IEEE Cloud 2011 on July 5, 2011 in Washington, D.C. I discussed the Open Science Data Cloud and concluded the talk by three research questions

1. OCC Open Science Data Cloud(www.opensciencedatacloud.org) Robert Grossman University of ChicagoOpen Cloud Consortium Open Data Group July 5, 2011 1

2. I’ll describe a new project (the Open Science Data Cloud) and three research questions generated by the project.

3. Open Science Data Cloud The OCC is a not-for-profit supporting the scientific community by operating cloud infrastructure.

4. The OSDC is a hosted distributed facility managed by the OCC that: Manages & archives medium and large size datasets. Provides computational resources to analyze them. Provides networking to share the datasets with your colleagues and with the public.

6. 10G networks

7. 450+ nodes

8. 3000 cores

9. 2 PB

10. Build a data center for science.

11. Drive the the 4th paradigm.

12. 6+ locations

13. 100G networks

14. $1M - $2M hardware/year

16. Variety of analysis Scientist with laptop Wide Open Science Data Cloud Med High energy physics, astronomy Low Data Size Medium to Large Small Very Large Dedicated infrastructure No infrastructure General infrastructure

18. Manage both the data and the analysis environment.

19. Develop open architecture that interoperates with other private and public clouds.

21. Project Matsu 2: An Elastic Cloud For Earth Science Data 10 matsu.opencloudconsortium.org

22. Research Questions Develop technology to encapsulate a scientist’s data and analysis tools and to export, save and move these between clouds. Develop protocols, utilities, and applications so that new racks and containers can be added to data clouds with minimal human involvement. Develop technology to support the long term, low cost preservation of data in clouds.