3. Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action funded by H2020 Framework
Programme
Introduction
3 April 2017
Bob Jones
CERN
IT department
03/04/2017
4. Helix Nebula Science Cloud Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement
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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 >5.3M€
5. HNSciCloud project phases
Preparation
•Analysis of requirements,
current market offers and
relevant standards
•Build stakeholder group
•Develop tender material
Implementation and sharing
Jan’16 Dec’18
Each step is competitive - only contractors that successfully
complete the previous step can bid in the next
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4 Designs
3 Prototypes
2 Pilots
Call-off
Feb’17
Call-off
Dec’17
Tender
Jul’16
Phases of the tender are defined by the Horizon 2020
Pre-Commercial Procurement financial instrument
6. What will be procured
A hybrid cloud platform for the European research community
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HNSciCloud
PCP
Source:CloudComputingforGovies,DLTSolutions,
DavidBlankenhorn,VanRistauandCaronBeesley
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 and
the GEANT network as part of a hybrid model
7. Challenges
Innovative IaaS level cloud services integrated with procurers in-
house resources and public e-infrastructure to support a range
of scientific workloads
Compute and Storage
support a range of virtual machine and container configurations including HPC
working with datasets in the petabyte range accessible transparently
Network Connectivity and Federated Identity Management
provide high-end network capacity via GEANT for the whole platform with
common identity and access management
Service Payment Models
explore a range of purchasing options to determine those most appropriate
for the scientific application workloads to be deployed
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8. HNSciCloud project phases
and milestones
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Jan’16
Dec’18
Project
kick-off
19 Jan 2016
Open Market
Consultation
17 March
Tender
published
21 July
Information
Day
7 Sept
Tender
Deadline
19 Sept
Design Award
2 Nov
Designs
submitted
30 Jan 2017
Prototype
call-off
deadline
13 March
Notes de l'éditeur
Research organisations from 7 countries have proposed to work together to develop a cross-border joint procurement of innovative cloud services. This is an important change: never before have research organisations across Europe pooled their funds and resources to procure cloud services to support their scientific programmes.
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