Cloud Services for Education - HNSciCloud applied to the UP2U project

Cloud Services for Education
Up2University Project at CERN-IT and UniGE Physiscope
Margherita Boselli (University of Geneva)
Enrico Bocchi (CERN, IT-ST)
Jakub T. Mościcki (CERN, IT-ST)
IT Technical Forum
CERN, 24 Nov 2017

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Outline Up2U Introduction Technology Physiscope Conclusions
Table of Contents
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 The Up2U Project
 Context at CERN
Background & Introduction
2.
 Technical Architecture & Deployment
Development of Up2U services at CERN
3.
 Summer experiment with Up2U for Physiscope
Collaboration with University of Geneva

The Up to University Project
Up2U

Up2U Project
 EC Call ICT-22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills
 5M EUR funding for 3 years
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18 partners (Academia, Research, Industry, NRENs)
12 countries in Europe

Up2U Goals
Objective
 Bridge the gap between secondary schools, higher education, and the
research domain
 Adopt technology and methodology
 Bonus: Get kids interested and involved in science early on
 Target audience
 Kids 12-18 years old & their teachers
 Practical outcome
 Pilot service for ~400 schools
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Technology
Up2Universe platform
 Create, share, and collaborate on
educational content
 Formal learning
 Support for teachers: Courses,
assignments, resources
 Informal learning
 Experimentation, peer-to-peer
learning, social interactions
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Integrating existing open-source tools & services

Methodology
Shift from industrial to organic education
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Fixed schedule
Changing subjects
Linear development
Standard assessment
Personalized
Outside and inside school involvement
Flipped classes
Close community links
New role of teachers

Up2U at CERN
 Let the kids use the very same tools & services
used by real researchers doing Big Science at CERN
 Sharing the same tools = removing the technology friction between
these two worlds
 Opportunity for feedback and collaboration
 Existing outreach programmes at CERN
 Neighboring institutions (e.g. local universities)
 Growing interest in education from the Physics community
 Open Data, …
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Outreach opportunities at CERN
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F.Gianotti, Jan 2017
 Many Edu/Outreach
projects target high
schools and teachers
 Ongoing discussion with
Edu/Outreach teams
(IR-ECO) on future
opportunities for
collaborating on Up2U

Technology: What makes it hard…
 Traditionally Big Science tools require “Big Expertise”
 It’s usually quite hard to
 Setup and use the tools
 Access to data
 Share the “data analysis code & data”
 Even harder to “export” the environment and tools to set them up
elsewhere
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Technology: What makes it plausible…
 Jupyter Notebooks
 Full data science environment in a web browser
 Evolution of analysis service for physics at CERN
 Dropbox-like Cloud Storage
 Easy sharing and access from any device
 Container and Virtualization Services
 Simple and quick deployment anywhere
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EP-SFT
IT-CM
IT-ST

Jupyter Notebooks: Technology of wider interest
 Notebooks are playable, interactive documents
 Similar to Matlab or Mathematica
 “read a book and play with it as you go”
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Outreach Notebooks from Physics Community
 Notebooks are playable, interactive documents
 Similar to Matlab or Mathematica
 “read a book and play with it as you go”
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Hiukkasfysiikan avoin data opetuksessa
Particle open data teaching
Paavo Rikkilä
CMS Open Data

Jupyter Notebook Example
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Embed images
Write rich text in
Markdown format
Write
code and run it

CERN cloud services for Up2Universe platform
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Students
Teachers
Notebooks

Access from any device anywhere
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Backed by scalable storage technology
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Up2U Timeline
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Methodology
& Content
Technology &
Infrastructure

Early prototyping and experimentation
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CERN tools & services
Integration
Deployment
Early-on experimentation
a real setting
Informal MicroExperiment
Methodology & Content Technology

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Up2Universe Toolbox

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Up2Universe Toolbox
Recording and
Publishing
Open Educational
Content
Public and private
content repositories
Learning Management
System
https://up2university.eu
Federated SSO and
group management
Federated
Sync & Share
Web front-end
• Content Delivery
• Wi-Fi coverage
Network access
Interactive Notebooks
with Sharing

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Up2Universe: Architecture
eduGAIN
OpenID
Orcid
Social Networks
LDAP
AAI
Group
management
LMS
Up2U playground
Up2U Toolbox Proxy
Apps
eduOER
aggregator
Content Providers

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Up2Universe: Connecting schools
eduGAIN
OpenID
Orcid
Social Networks
LDAP
AAI
Group
management
LMS
Up2U playground
Up2U Toolbox Proxy
Apps
eduOER
aggregator
Content Providers

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eduGAIN
OpenID
Orcid
Social Networks
LDAP
AAI
Group
management
LMS
Up2U playground
Up2U Toolbox Proxy
Apps
eduOER
aggregator
Content Providers
NREN Cloud
NREN
IdP
School A

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eduGAIN
OpenID
Orcid
Social Networks
LDAP
AAI
Group
management
LMS
Up2U playground
Up2U Toolbox Proxy
Apps
eduOER
aggregator
Content Providers
NREN Cloud
School A
NREN
IdP
School B
School
IdP Apps

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Up2Universe across countries
CERN
PSNC
GWDG

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Cloud Federation with Open Cloud Mesh
GWDG
CERN
Open Cloud Mesh
 Federated content sharing beyond the
borders of individual clouds
 Ease the dissemination of
high quality content for teaching
PSNC

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CERNBox and SWAN in Up2Universe
 Need of a flexible, scalable, and highly-available deployment model
 Up2U architecture evolves to accommodate new requirements
 Service adoption and user population unknown
 Use of container technologies
 Self-contained, light-weight
 Deterministic and repeatable deployment
 Enable rapid prototyping and easy distribution of software
 In-house expertise from IT-CM group
• CERN Container Service

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Containerized CERN-IT Technology
 Development of Boxed
+ +
• Single-box installation via docker-compose
• No configuration required
• Download and run services in 15 minutes
https://github.com/cernbox/uboxed
One-Click demo Deployment
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes
• Ability to scale according to
storage and computing needs
• Tolerant to node failure for high-availability
https://github.com/cernbox/kuboxed
Production-oriented Deployment

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 Development of Boxed
File Servers
eos-fst{1..N}
Sync Client
Namespace
eos-mgm
Messaging
eos-mq
EOS
CERNBox
SWAN
CERNBox Web Server
cernbox
EOS Access
eos-fuse
Software
cvmfs
Users Authentication
and session orchestration
JupyterHub
N Single-user Jupyter containers
jupyter-user0 jupyter-userN
…
…
CERNBox
cernboxgateway

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 Applications of Boxed go beyond Up2U
 Concrete example of CERN core technologies running in containers
 “disposable” deployment for testing and development
within IT-ST and EP-SFT groups
 Porting improvements to upstream production
 Simplified try-out and deployment for partners
• Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNET)
• Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia
• Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC), Taipei, Taiwan

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 Single-box deployment running on multiple clouds
 Amazon Web Services
 Helix Nebula Cloud (T-Systems & IBM)
 Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
 Greek Research and Technology Network (GRnet)
 OpenStack at CERN
 Your own laptop!
 Production-oriented deployment with Kubernetes on
 OpenStack at CERN
 CERN Container Service (on-going effort)
 Pilot service for Up2U

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Up2U Pilot at CERN
 Up2U Pilot for participant schools starting in early 2018
 CERN will be a piloting site together with PSNC
 Containerized version of EOS, CERNBox, and SWAN in production
 Several deployment scenarios foreseen
 Self-managed cluster of OpenStack VMs
 Cluster of containers via CERN Container Service

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Up2U Pilot at CERN
 Self-managed cluster of OpenStack VMs
 Cluster of containers via CERN Container Service
 Hybrid cluster with physical and virtual machines

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Up2U Pilot at CERN
 Integrated with CERN Single Sign-On
 User log-in via eduGAIN credentials
 No CERN account required
 Consolidated technology
approved by CERN Computer Security

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Up2U MicroExperiment
 Would tools for Big Science work for high schools students?
 Are they easy and intuitive enough for the context?
 Is the interface eye-catchy and friendly?
 How to learn to use them properly?
 The Idea – Up2U MicroExperiment
 Leverage short-term apprenticeships at CERN for high-school students
 Early road test of CERN services for Up2U
 Asset for Up2U development and fulfillment

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 Our Apprentice
 Maja – 16 years old student from the UK
• Two years from university
• General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) this year
• Interested in physics and mathematics
 The Goal
 Produce interesting content as example of Up2U platform
 Try-out Up2U platform in the setting of an educational facility
 Provide an example of interaction between Big Science and high-schools

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 The Preparation
 Identification of scientific topic of her interest
and part of her study plan: Superconductivity
 Swan 101 Training
• Few readings, many working examples!
• Python Coding, data analysis, plots, …
 The Execution
 Assigned task: Create a reportage of her journey
 Physiscope: Collect scientific data as a real scientist!
 CERN: Describe her voyage through experiments sites

University of Geneva
Physiscope

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Physiscope
 Physiscope is an outreach programme established in 2007 with the education mandate defined by
the Swiss National Science Foundation
 This project has been developed in collaboration with the Physics Department of the University of
Geneva (UniGE)
 It consists of an open laboratory where are organized interactive lessons covering different topics of
physics. All the lessons are strongly linked to the contemporary scientific research

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Physiscope
 The Goal
 This programme aims at motivating young people to choose a scientific career
 The first step is changing the negative perception of students towards science, physics in particular
 The Tools
 The approach used by Physiscope is based on the so-called “hands-on science”:
The audience does not attend a frontal lesson but is actively involved in the experiments!
 The sessions take place in a dedicated laboratory located next to real research labs

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Physiscope
 The Target
 The Physiscope activities are opened to the general public but the main
targets are 12–19 years old students from middle- and high-schools
 Some Numbers
 This programme is very well known and appreciated in the Geneva area
 The number of visitors is still growing: In the past few years
the average number of session is 330/year for more than 5000 students
 The Physics department is now studying the
correlation between the observed increase of
the physics 1st year students and the
Physiscope programme

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 A prototype implementation of the Up2U project
1 week in August 2017
 A 16 years old high school student from UK
 Physiscope educational content
 CERN-IT tools & services

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Up2U MicroExperiment at Physiscope
 The scientific framework of this project is the Superconductivity
 Phase 1
 Qualitative and Quantitative study of the phenomenon
 Experiments on electrostatics and the electronic properties of materials
 Cryogenics
 The zero-resistance state
 The Meissner effect
 Measurement of the R vs T characteristic
of a commercial superconducting tape (YBCO)

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Up2U MicroExperiment at CERN
 The scientific framework of this project is Superconductivity
 Phase 2
 She visited the main CERN facilities focusing on
the application of superconductivity
 Magnetic dipoles, RF-cavities, detector components, …

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 During her stay, she used the infrastructure provided by CERN-IT services to
Share
Sync/Store

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Report/Present
Analyse

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Descriptive notebook

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Analysis notebook

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 The Main Outcomes
 Production of good quality educational material
potentially useful for future developments
at Physiscope
 Power of ready-to-go services
for data treatment and sharing
 Physics and computer science in education:
The outreach activities often focus on the physics
phenomena and do not consider the technological
tools that scientists use to understand them.
This is crucial for “Up to University students”!

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Physiscope + Up2U
 How Physiscope could benefit from Up2U services
After an ordinary visit,
interested classes could
have access to the Up2U
platform
Access to data, informatics tools,
and analysis templates
Sharing of scientific materials with
other schools and outreach institutions

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Scienscope + Up2U
 In 2018 different “scopes” will be officially grouped in a unique institution
 The Up2U platform would be an interesting opportunity to improve their activities
and the scientific dialog among them and with other research centers

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Conclusions
 Integration of existing CERN tools & services into Up2U platform
 Contribution to the development of services
for physics users at CERN
 Positive collaborations across CERN groups and departments
 EP-SFT, IT-CM, IR-ECO, Open Data initiatives, …
 Up2U MicroExperiment produced very encouraging results
 Valuable educational materials as interactive notebooks
 Good basis for future collaborations with University of Geneva
and Outreach programmes at CERN
 Thanks to the colleagues who helped in preparing the MicroExperiment!
https://twitter.com/i/moments/894136600254349313
Up To University

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Future Directions
 Piloting Up2Universe to candidate schools
 User feedback will drive the evolution of the platform
 Collaborations within CERN on Outreach and Education
 Concrete use cases driven by existing outreach activities
 Intersection between Up2U and, e.g., S’CoolLab and teacher programmes
 Collaboration with UniGE Physiscope
 Potential users of Up2U services
 Allow visitors to access additional resources after their session

Cloud Services for Education
Up2University Project at CERN-IT and UniGE Physiscope
Margherita Boselli (University of Geneva)
Enrico Bocchi (CERN, IT-ST)
Jakub T. Mościcki (CERN, IT-ST)

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Up2U Working Packages
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Up2U Working Packages
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• Interaction with science lab
• Educational materials with
scientific content
• Up2U MicroExperiment:
Student summer apprenticeship
WP5
• CERNBox – File Sync&Share
• Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) – Federation
of cloud storage spaces
• SWAN – Jupyter Notebooks
WP3

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Open Data for Education

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Open Data for Education

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