Bob Jones,CERN, IT department3 October 2014

A European cloud computing partnership:

big science teams up with big business

Strategic Plan

� Establish multi-

tenant, multi-

To support the

computing capacity

needs for the

ATLAS experiment

Setting up a new

service to simplify

analysis of large

genomes, for a

deeper insight into

To create an Earth

Observation

platform, focusing

on earthquake and

To improve the

speed and quality

of research for

finding surrogate

biomarkers based tenant, multi-

provider cloud

infrastructure

� Identify and adopt

policies for trust,

security and

privacy

� Create governance

structure

� Define funding

schemes

ATLAS experimentdeeper insight into

evolution and

biodiversity

on earthquake and

volcano researchbiomarkers based

on brain images

Adopters

Suppliers

Bob Jones, CERN 2

Hybrid Public-Private Cloud ModelFederation of partners

Blue Box

Academic Other market sectors

Big Science Small and Medium Scale Science Government Manufacturing Oil & gas, etc.

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Helix NebulaHelix NebulaHelix NebulaHelix Nebula

AtosCloudSigma

T-Systems

Blue Box

EGI Fed Cloud

Front-endFront-end Front-endFront-endFront-end

Publicly funded Commercial

Maryline Lengert, ESA

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Front-end

HPC/PRACE

HNX Platform

First implementation of hybrid

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GÉANT / Internet

EC2 BridgeIaaS

Broker

Atos CloudSigma Interoute T-SystemsEGI

FedCloud

First implementation of hybrid

federated European cloud

with an initial set of services &

suppliers (2014)

Why Procurement• The activities within the Helix Nebula initiative have shown

that public research organisations and commercial IT cloud service providers can work together effectively to produce innovative cloud services

PICSE(Procurement Innovation for Cloud Services in Europe)

• H2020 Coordination and Support Action (500 K€) – 18 months started 1. Oct. 2014• Performed by CERN, CSA and Trust-IT

• Build on the collaborative model from Helix Nebula to engage with providers and customers for cloud servicesproviders and customers for cloud services

• Make the procurement model for cloud services simpler• Provide a range of best practices for implementing results• Set out a realistic roadmap for cloud procurement over the

next five years• Lay the foundations for future joint procurements to support

the hybrid cloud model

TASK FORCE

PLATFORMPICSE

Reaching experts through

Reaching practitioners

online

The PICSE Procurement Platform & Task Force

FORCEPLATFORMPICSEthrough

intermediariesonline

Listening to opinions and points of view

BEST

CASESTUDIES

BARRIER BESTPRACTICE

BARRIERANALYSIS

ROADMAP