Research & Education and Cloud Industry Partnership in Europe Proposal for an EC funded project by TERENA TF-Storage core Peter Szegedi TERENA 20 February 2012
About TF-Storage • A Task Force is established under the auspices of the TERENA Technical Programme – to provide a forum for exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and knowledge, as well as – fostering collaborations among National Research and Education Networks and academic and research institutions – on the topic of data storage, data management and cloud storage .
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NIIF PSNC SURFnet UNINETT GRNET TERENA TF-Storage ( 1 2 events in 4 .5 yeras; 8 8 talks) HEAnet NORDUnet SWITCH Cisco FORTH-ICS About TF-Storage CESNET RedIRIS SigmaNet Rutherford Appleton Lab. Vrijheid.net CARNet CSC 9LivesData Abo Akademi Amazon Avaxio BlueArc DDN Desy IBM Imperial College London Isilon JIVE Fujitsu Google HP Koninklijke Bibliotheek KTH NorthernStar NTUA University of Amsterdam University of Ghent University of Oslo SNIA SUN T-Systems
EC project call • Objective ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services and Advanced Software Engineering • The objective focuses on – technologies specific to the – networked, distributed dimension of software and access to services and data. It will support long-term research on – new principles, methods, tools and techniques enabling – software developers in the EU to easily create – interoperable services based on open standards, with sufficient flexibility and at a reasonable cost.
EC project call Cloud Computing • Intelligent and autonomic management of cloud resources , ensuring agile elastic scalability. Scalable data management strategies, addressing the issues of heterogeneity, consistency, availability, privacy and supporting security. Technologies for infrastructure virtualisation, cross platforms execution • as needed for service composition across multiple, heterogeneous environments, autonomous management of hardware and software resources. • Interoperability amongst different clouds, portability, protection of data in cloud environments , control of data distribution and latency. • Seamless support of mobile, context-aware applications . • Energy efficiency and sustainability for software and services on the cloud. Architectures and technologies supporting integration of computing and • networking environments ; implications of Cloud Computing paradigm on networks • Open Source implementations of a software stack for Clouds
RECIPE in nutshell Participants: 9 (+4) • – TERENA as coordinator, (Martel) – NRENs: NIIF, PSNC, SURFnet, GRNET – Commercial Cloud SMEs: Vrijheid.net, Flexiant – Universities: UvA, (University of Szeged), (NTUA) – Research lab: FORTH – Vendor: (Cisco) • Duration: – STREP - 24 month (potential start in June 2012) • Efforts: – 403 PM (16.79 FTE) – 32 people from 13 organizations (6 countries) • Budget: – 3.5 ME of which 2.5 ME requested EC funding
Motivations and concept
Motivations and concept Today, HE users typically can access a) the private (or hosted/managed private) cloud provided by the home institution or NREN and/or b) b) the public commercial cloud service (if it is allowed by the policy)
Objectives • To design and prototype a resilient, secure, and trusted Inter-cloud Architecture (for public and private IaaS clouds) and a harmonised, consistent, interoperable and open source Cloud Carrier Software Stack (i.e. vertical integration) built on relevant standards. – Focus on the HE use of IaaS clouds (i.e. University/Campus IT department as customer and HE student, researcher and staff as end-user) however, bearing in mind other possible applications of the proposed model. – Consider the interoperation/integration between private Resource Clouds (IaaS) provided by NRENs as well as the harmonisation and federation between those private and other public IaaS clouds provided by commercial cloud industry. • To integrate and harmonise the existing campus infrastructure seamlessly with the cloud (i.e. horizontal integration) in order to bridge the current technical and non-technical gaps between the education sector and cloud industry. – Do the integration at the technical level (i.e. exchange, import/export of virtual infrastructure entities, store metadata/encryption key separate from the data, run virtual instances in the cloud under the user IP-space, etc.) – Do the harmonisation at the business processes level (i.e. orchestration that defines the policies and service levels through automated workflows for service offers, purchases and provisioning among multiple stakeholders, etc.)
Objectives Business Layer Cloud Customer domain Cloud Auditor - Cloud User Application Serivice Registry SaaS PaaS Resource Cloud Providers Cloud U N I V E R S I T Y U N I V E R S I T Y Broker Data Centre IaaS IaaS - IaaS Aggregator Cloud Carrier Off-campus On-campus
Test bed not a production service
Workplan WP1 - Project management and dissemination WP2 Architecture survey, analysis and feedback WP5 WP3 Usability evaluation, WP4 platform and Framework for cloud Business layer, application interface interoperability, scientific workflow and process integration campus integration and orchestration WP6 Demonstrations, exploitation and sustainability
Workplan Partic. Partic. short WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 Total no. name person months 1 TERENA 18 0 0 0 0 0 18 2 NIIF 1 10 26 12 10 10 69 3 PSNC 0 8 30 14 2 6 60 4 SURFnet 0 0 28 0 0 10 38 5 GRNET 0 16 28 0 0 22 66 6 Vrijheid 0 0 5 0 0 1 6 7 Flexiant 2 5 8 2 24 1 42 8 UvA 0 22 12 2 5 5 46 9 FORTH 0 6 3 28 21 0 58 TOTAL 21 67 140 58 62 55 403
Expected impact “Emergence of European interoperable clouds contributing to an internal market of services in the EU whilst providing very significant business opportunities to SME's ; improved trust in cloud-based applications and storage for citizens and business.”
Plan B • I am optimistic! – RECIPE flash talk at TNC2012 • TF-Storage community will be a kind of Advisory Council for RECIPE • Light-weight RECIPE might be possible using ‘resources’ from TF-Storage participants • ‘TERENA cloud pilot’ is in the planning phase...
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