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www.venus-c.eu. Towards a scientific cloud for Europe. Åke Edlund, PhD KTH/CSC/PDC Cloud Group Lead Leader of VENUS-C WP2 – Scientific and International Cooperation Coordinator NEON project – www.necloud.org. VENUS-C Goals (my wording). Bring early adopters to the cloud – from start
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www.venus-c.eu Towards a scientific cloud for Europe Åke Edlund, PhD KTH/CSC/PDC Cloud Group Lead Leader of VENUS-C WP2 – Scientific and International Cooperation Coordinator NEON project – www.necloud.org
VENUS-C Goals (my wording) • Bring early adopters to the cloud – from start • Attract new users during the project – through an open call • Give users multiple choices - Azure, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus • Contribute actively to DCI Collaborative Roadmap • EGI-InSPIRE, EMI, IGE), StratusLab, EDGI, VENUS-C • Contribute through ECEE to “interoperability-today” effort Next … bringing more science to the cloud www.venus-c.eu
Supporting Multiple Basic Research Disciplines 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 www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 1Building Structural Analysis • User Community • Wide community of professionals: • Architects, Structural and Civil Engineers • SMEs • Architectural Studios, Construction and Engineering Enterprises • Researchers • Universities, Research Centres • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • To provide the structural community with an execution and research platform. • To reduce the time and cost for designing complex structures and to increase the results reliability, the productivity, the efficiency and the volume of business. www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 2Building Information Management • User Community • Architects, Engineers, Suppliers, Construction firms, Real Estates. • MACE and Green Prefab communities: 15k stakeholders in Europe, 60k in USA, 1k in China. • MACE Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe - a EU project 2006-2009. • Green Prefab, a spin-off from MACE and it’s Building Information Management System for eco-buildings. • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Documentation and experimental application on a real case simulation. www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 3Data for Science - AquaMaps • User Community • Fisheries, Aquaculture Resources Management, and Biodiversity (main involved organizations: WorldFish Center, FAO, CGIAR) • Heterogeneous communities: • Statisticians, Fishery Biologists, Marine Ecologists, Economists, Lawyers • Enforcement bodies: customs, coast guards • Conservationists: threatened species and Marine Protected Areas • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Computing resources provisioned as a utility service. • On-demand computing resources capable to satisfy computational peaks either caused by unscheduled or scheduled requests. www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 4Fire Risk Estimation and Propagation • User Community • Fire scientists • Civil protection authorities • The only VENUS-C user scenario with Geospatial processing and content. • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Software and infrastructure as a service. • Cut down on client deployment time and costs. • Specific and high level knowledge not needed by end-users. www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 5 Bioinformatics • User Community • Bioinformaticians • Wide community (70K indexed articles in PubMed in the last 10 years), with highly-demanding computing and storage requirements and used to work on the Internet. • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Infrastructures on demand for specific needs. • Better integration of data and computing. www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 6System Biology • User Community • Wide community, both academic and industrial, performing research in either: • Biology • Pharmacy • Medicine • Health care • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Scalability of applications. www.venus-c.eu
User Scenario 7Drug Discovery • User Community • The target users for this application are chemistry-informaticians, both from academy and SMEs that use a mixed set of public and private tools and data • Expected Benefits of VENUS-C • Infrastructures on demand for specific needs. • Provision of generic model building framework
VENUS-C – Funding • EU will fund the project with €4.5m over the first 2 years (1/6/2010-30/5/2012). • Funding Scheme: Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Action: Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3). • European Programme Topic: INFRA-2010-2 1.2.1. Distributed Computing Infrastructures. • Microsoft will invest up to €3m in Azure resources and research manpower in Redmond (U.S.), Cambridge (UK), European Microsoft Innovation Centre (Germany) and Microsoft Innovation Centre (Greece). www.venus-c.eu
VENUS-C Consortium Project Director: Andrea Manieri, Engineering, Italy User Scenarios www.venus-c.eu
THANK YOU!edlund@pdc.kth.se www.venus-c.eu