ECEE

1. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 ECEE • Enabling Clouds for eScience The open collaboration spot for cloud projects in Europe Åke Edlund, PhD KTH-SICS Cloud Innovation Center

2. Åke Edlund • Coordinator KTH-SICS Cloud Innovation Center (C!C) [1] • Managing Partner SICS Seed Accelerator [2] • Leading VENUS-C Scientific and International Cooperation [3] • Coordinating ECEE (see this presentation) [4] • December 2010: completed the NEON project (Northern Europe Cloud Computing) [1] www.pdc.kth.se/research/cloud-computing [2] www.sics.com/seedaccelerator [3] www.venus-c.eu [4] www.scientific-cloud.org

3. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Why “ECEE”? • Many initiatives with similar goals • Accelerate the learning process • Share the load • Cross border and cross project services

4. Vilnius 2011.04.13 Who’s “in”? So far.www.scientific-cloud.org VENUS-C Italy, Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden, Greece, Israel StratusLab France, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland NGS United Kingdom GRNET cloud Greece SARA cloud The Netherlands UCM Spain – as part of the OpenNebula Project SEECCI Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosova, FYRo Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria CESGA Spain – as part of the Open Cirrus project NEON Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland BalticCloud Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland Participated in workshops: VISION project

5. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Collaboration cross European projects • Initiated in September 2009 – at EGEE’09 • Meet twice a year • 1st workshop – OGF28, Munich, March 2010 • 2nd workshop – EGI TF, Amsterdam, Sept 2010 • 3rd workshop – EGI UF, Vilnius, April 2011

6. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Workshops – example • 1 hr Industry presentations • 2 hr Detailed findings - project-by-project, sharing specific findings, and respective roadmap • 1 hr Discussion, pointing at common challenges and how to share the load, to update common high-level roadmap

7. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Sharing experiences – examples • Sharing experiences from using different cloud solutions – private and public • Security issues, issues with network topologies • Sharing experiences from management of private and hybrid clouds • Sharing user experiences • Users - hard to find good representatives that have the time to participate • Open source vs closed source - pros and cons • Pricing - how to compete, how to estimate, what are the risks

8. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Looking at common challenges - examples • Investigate how to build a cloud storage infrastructure that supports the use of clouds for scientific applications. • Investigate if a machine provisioning interface like that of Amazon's EC2 coupled with a library of scientific appliances is of value to European academic research communities.

9. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Looking at common challenges • Identify the economic value of cloud computing • Understand the economic implications of moving parts of HPC onto cloud infrastructures. • Estimate the fraction of current HPC compute jobs that could realistically be executed on clouds • Estimate the cost of building and operating a cloud facility of the same capacity as the above percentage of the total current resources • Estimate possible cost reductions achievable by scaling out peak loads to commercial clouds • Compare cost of a private cloud facility with a commercial cloud • Estimate savings in scenarios with • Commercial clouds when aiming at direct peering (data transfer cost) • Allocating their spare capacity at a reduced price

10. www. Scientific-cloud .org Big variety among ECEE projects: NEON

11. Supporting Multiple Basic Research Disciplines Big variety among ECEE projects: VENUS-C 7even User Scenarios Extending eScience Applications through Open Call: €20,000 funding each, in addition to Azure Compute, Storage and Network Resources porting applications to the cloud - education and training - scalability tests

12. HPC Cloudwww.cloud.sara.nl • HPC System • Fast & Large RAM, CPU, Storage, Network • IAAS, PAAS, SAAS • Graphic User Interface • Standards: OCCI, CDMI • Portal for user collaboration • Documentation, Fora & Wiki • User Projects • Ticket system • VM repository • Usergroups • Life Sciences & Humanities (Ecology, Geography, Bioinformatics, psychology, Linguistics) • Sciences (Physics, CS, Chemistry) • More every day…

13. HPC CloudOpen Cloud Standards for System Interoperability • Laptop • Workstation • HPC Systems • Sara • Neon • “Blue” • … • Open Standards • OCCI (OGF) • CDMI (SNIA) • … Open Standards provide interoperability between all available systems to ensure maximal freedom of choice

14. Provides complete, open-source IaaS cloud distribution.Focus on grid resource centers: • Allow collaborative science with dynamic cloud resources • Use of grid authn/authz mechanisms • Demonstrate: Certified grid site over a StratusLab cloud Big variety among ECEE projects: StratusLab

15. www. Scientific-cloud .org Public ? Big variety among ECEE projects… SaaS IaaS Private

16. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 SUMMARY - ECEE • An open collaboration between cloud projects • All contributing projects are welcome to join. • Meet twice a year (as ECEE) to share experiences and roadmaps – initiated September 2009 • ECEE is a complement to the project-to-project collaborations – bringing in many – often very different - projects to the same meeting • ECEE is in contact with the SIENA Roadmap Advisory Board to act as ‘interoperability-now’ feedback group to the SIENA Roadmap work.

17. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 ECEE Agenda (after lunch) FutureGrid: An Experimental Computing Grid and Cloud Test-Bed Karolina Sarnowska-Upton, University of Virgina BiG Grid HPC Cloud FlorisSluiter, SARA Venus-C Architecture HakanSoncu, Venus-C/EMIC StratusLab - Current Status and Plans Cal Loomis, StratusLab/IN2P3

18. www. Scientific-cloud .org Vilnius 2011.04.13 Thank you! Åke Edlund edlund@pdc.kth.se