Beyond Status and plans

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1 The SIENA European Roadmap on Grid 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

2 SIENA: A Snapshot Who SIENA ( ) is a Support Action funded by the European Commission under FP7 ( ) Research infrastructures projects workshop sereis (January2009, February2010, March 2011) brings together experts, developers and end users in the cloud-computing space. Specialemphasison realusecases, best practices, policy issues& benefits of interoperability Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) projects from FP7 What SIENA coordinates the creation of a Roadmapof interoperability and collaboration between current e-infrastructure initiatives, based on the requirements of their user communities How Combing the input from DCIs projects, SDOs and Policy groupsinvolved together with the SIENA Experts Groups, with the support of the European Commisson REB - Roadmap Editorial Board The REB playsan editorialrolein the writingof the SIENA roadmapby ensuring that the contents is aligned with EC, Europeanand National Initiatives SLG - Special Liaison Group Ensuresnternational perspectiveon activitiesfor drivingforwardthe adoption of standards and developments for increased interoperability, aligningthe initiative with changing global landscape Some Standards Development Organizations(SDOs) involved User Communities IEG - Industry Expert Group Aimsto interactwith enterprises to understand best practices emphasizingstandardsand interoperability

3 SIENA: 9 months after

4 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. 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).

5 Conclusions and moving forward 1 We must raise the profile of data and its associated 'use cases' within the roadmap. Many communities arealreadyseeingthatthestrengthofcloudiswithinthisarea -thereforedatamanagementshouldbeoneof the focus areas of the roadmap. 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 3 Profileforcloudsbasedonexistingstandardsthesamewayashasbeen done for grids. OGF31 could be a starting point for discussion 4 Select standards based on quality not on prescriptions 1st iteration of the SIENA European Roadmap on 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

6 Ongoing work within OGF 3 Profileforcloudsbasedonexistingstandardsthesamewayashasbeen 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

7 SIENA long term strategy

8 SIENA future timeline