H2020, EGI and the Nordics

1. H2020, EGI and the Nordics Per Öster per.oster@csc.fi

2. H2020 and e-Infrastructures • New EC portal for H2020 • http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020 • http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal • Work Programme 2014-2015 is the overall guiding document: • Chapter 4: European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures) • Chapter 5: Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEIT), (i) Information and Communication Technologies • In July EC will start to work on the Work Programme 2016-17 (time to influence)

3. Research Infrastructure Work Programme: Call 3 E-Infrastructures H2020-EINFRA-2014/2015 • EINFRA-1-2014 (dl 2 Sep 2014) • Managing, preserving and computing with big research data • Activity 6: Support to the evolution of EGI (European Grid Infrastructure) towards a flexible compute/data infrastructure capable of federating and enabling the sharing of resources of any kind (public or private, grid or cloud, etc.) in order to offer computing and storage services to the whole European scientific community. The proposal will address operations for supplying services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) at European level, engagement of and tailoring of services to new user communities and dissemination activities. • Can not be combined with other activities, max €8M

4. Research Infrastructure Work Programme: Call 3 E-Infrastructures H2020-EINFRA-2014/2015 • EINFRA-1-2014 (dl 2 Sep 2014) • Managing, preserving and computing with big research data • Activity 4: Large scale virtualisation of data/compute centre resources to achieve on-demand compute capacities, improve flexibility for data analysis and avoid unnecessary costly large data transfers. • Activity 5:Development and adoption of a standards-based computing platform (with open software stack) that can be deployed on different hardware and e-infrastructures (such as clouds providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), HPC, grid infrastructures...) … coordination and interoperability with existing e-infrastructures (including GÉANT, EGI, PRACE and others) is recommended

5. Comment to Activity 6 • In line with EGI Strategy towards federated cloud • Issues: • Research Communities are concerned about resource provisioning and sustainability • Development of the infrastructure (does not fit within activity formulation and budget) • Integration with PRACE and EUDAT • RCs might go for own initiatives

6. Research Infrastructure Work Programme: Call 3 E-Infrastructures H2020-EINFRA-2014/2015 • EINFRA-1-2014 (dl 2 Sep 2014) • Managing, preserving and computing with big research data • Activity 1: Establishing a federated pan-European data e-infrastructure to provide cost-effective and interoperable solutions for data management and long term preservation. The needs for data access, storage, replication, annotation, search, compute, analysis and reuse of information across disciplines should be accommodated in different research and education contexts…. • Activity 2:Services to ensure the quality and reliability of the e-infrastructure, including certification mechanisms for repositories and certification services to test and benchmark capabilities in terms of resilience and service continuity of e-infrastructures; • Activity 3: Federating institutional and, if possible, private data management and curation tools and services used across or at some point of the full data lifecycle, including approaches for identification of open data sources and data collected with sensitive or restricted access features.

7. ICT 7–2014: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services • Research and Innovation actions, proposals to address one or more themes, dl. 23 April, €66M: • High performance heterogeneous cloud infrastructures: The focus is on development, deployment and management of cloud-based infrastructures and services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) over large-scale, distributed, heterogeneous, dynamic computing and storage environments. • Federated cloud networking: Techniques for the deployment and management of federated and decentralised cloud infrastructures, in particular cloud networking techniques (within software-defined data centres and across wide-area networks) and mechanisms to enable incorporation of resources and services independent of their location across distributed computing and storage infrastructures.

8. ICT 15 – 2014: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up • Coordination and Support Actions, proposals to address one or more themes, dl. 23 April, €39+11M: • To lay the foundation for effective exchange and reuse of data assets (including those controlled by the data subject) across: industry sectors, national boundaries and language barriers, public and private sectors… • To contribute to capacity-building by designing and coordinating a network of European skills centres for big data analytics technologies and business development… • To create a Big Data integrator platform with the objective to coordinate and consolidate relevant technology and user communities in any actions supported in Horizon 2020 addressing or making use of Big Data.

9. Background: The Nordics in international e-Infrastructures NeIC – Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration: Yearly budget of ~2M€, 10 yrMoU

10. Comments to the EGI Vision • Focus on large-scale federated data-analysis facility beyond what is feasible to provide by a single country or organization • Focus on scientific excellence • Peer-review and pay-per-use • Collaborate with other e-Infrastructures with research collaborations’ needs in focus • ie support transparency between e-Infrastructures • Develop the governance and funding (business) model • Develop fee structure and renew business model • Direct involvement of research communities in steering • “Country model” requires governments’ commitment

11. FI & SE Input for EGI H2020 Proposals • Strong stakeholder involvement: • User communities must in an organized and transparent way contribute to the steering of the operation and evolution of the EGI infrastructure… • Integration of e-infrastructures: • Special effort must be put on integration of pan-European e-infrastructures to allowing users to as transparent as possible utilise a combination of services from different e-infrastructures, especially combination of services from EGI, EUDAT and PRACE. • Harmonisation with national and regional e-infrastructures: • Activities should be included to contribute to standardisation and policy work that could support a harmonisation between EGI infrastructure and national and regional e-infrastructures