The SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond – Status and plans EGI User Forum, 11 th April 2001 Vilnius, Lithuania David Wallom, Associate Director - Innovation Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, SIENA Project Member April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
SIENA: A Snapshot Who Who SIENA (2010-2012) is a Support Action funded by the European Commission under FP7 Distributed Computing (2007-2013) Research Infrastructures infrastructures projects ( DCIs) projects from FP7 workshop sereis (January 2009, February 2010, March 2011) brings together experts, developers and end users in the cloud-computing space. Special emphasis on real use cases, best practices, policy issues & benefits of interoperability IEG - Industry Expert Group REB - Roadmap Editorial Board Aims to interact with enterprises to What What SIENA coordinates the The REB plays an editorial role in the understand best practices writing of the SIENA roadmap by SLG - Special Liaison Group creation of a Roadmap of emphasizing standards and ensuring that the contents is aligned Ensures nternational perspective on interoperability with EC, European and National interoperability and collaboration activities for driving forward the adoption of Initiatives standards and developments for increased between current e-Infrastructure interoperability, aligning the initiative with initiatives, based on the changing global landscape requirements of their user communities Some Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) involved How Combing the input from How DCIs projects, SDOs and Policy groups involved together with the SIENA Experts Groups , with the support of the European User Communities Commisson April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
SIENA: 9 months after April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
SIENA Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond March 2011 Main Recommendation: Undertake determined and targeted efforts to discourage fragmentation, while at the same time preserving innovation in the development of e-infrastructure Future actions: Fund participation in the long-term development of an adequate set of open standards to ensure the interoperability of future European infrastructures for research and e-government. future European infrastructures for research and e-government. Public sector and commercial providers should engage more to explore shared standards requirements. Track emerging standards, technologies, and best practices in order to create and maintain a structured repository of open standards for grids and clouds, and provide updated guidance to European e-infrastructure projects with interaction with worldwide initiatives and other European projects (e.g. NIST, GICTF, CESI, CAMSS, SEMIC.eu, etc.) Encourage and fund the definition of sound security policies concerning the access, use and provisioning of services within distributed infrastructures. Introduce guidelines for dealing with data privacy, long term data curation, liability and taxation issues in clouds and grids for work across legislative boundaries. Fund procurement of open source or commercially provided software solutions allowing the research community to innovate in areas where they can add unique value beyond the scope of commercial solutions. Fund on-demand cross-domain provisioning of high-speed data transfer links (light paths) with defined service level agreements. Involve Europeans citizens in e-science through volunteer computing (using, e.g., desktop grids and clouds). April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
Conclusions and moving forward 1 1 We must raise the profile of data and its associated 'use cases' within the roadmap. Many communities are already seeing that the strength of cloud is within this area - therefore Data Management should be one of the focus areas of the roadmap. 2 2 We should document a possible production cloud profile for research using inputs from already ratified/recommended standards that are relevant. This could use any number of different communities for the 'lighthouse ‘ (i.e. ELIXIR or CLARIN) already seeing the benefit of cloud and are working towards that paradigm. This last point was expanded wrt government organisations and procurement etc. about how organisations must not try to prescribe standards since there is always the chance of prescribing the wrong standards must not try to prescribe standards since there is always the chance of prescribing the wrong standards 3 3 Profile for clouds based on existing standards the same way as has been done for grids. OGF31 could be a starting point for discussion 1st iteration of the SIENA European Roadmap on 4 4 Select standards based on quality not on prescriptions Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond More than 100 stakeholders Over 30 diverse speakers and panellists 25 use cases and position papers April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
Ongoing work within OGF … … 3 3 Profile for clouds based on existing standards the same way as has been done for grids. OGF31 could be a starting point for discussion OGF31 Taipei, Taiwan March 21-25, 201 Standardising only one interface will not on its own promote interoperability: OCCI is a good start, Extending to include all possible other functionality is not an option – leads to inflexibility and no single thing can be suitable for all stake-holding communities Federation of clouds is already a clear requirement in a number of communities OGF will produce an IaaS Cloud Interoperability Profile within 9 months building upon existing standards, from both inside and outside of OGF: OCCI – Management Interface SAML – Identity attributes OVF – Common Virtual format SRM , CDMI or GridFTP – Data movement GLUE2 – Service description UR & RUS – Accounting Driven by EU and UK research communities, hosted in DCI Federation working group www.ogf.org April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
SIENA long term strategy April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
SIENA future timeline April 7 & 8, 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Workshop & Forum III
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