EGI-InSPIRE Cloud Services Steven Newhouse, EGI.eu Director 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 1
Definition of the cloud Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction [2] [2] National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Computer Security Division - Computer Security Resource Center 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 2
Three Main Models Software Mail (Gmail), CRM (Salesforce), etc. Platform Force.com, Google Apps, etc. Infrastructure (a.k.a. Hardware) Amazon, Rackspace, etc, All available as a Service (aas) 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 3
Key Points Scalable demand Use as much as you want, when you want Flexibility Get the service you want, how you want Automated Minimal ( zero) human intervention Service Oriented Clear limitations, liabilities, SLA, 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 4
Where do we add value? Who is we? E-Infrastructure Providers European: TERENA, EGI, PRACE, Data, National: NRENs, NGIs, HPC centres, What value do we provide now? Running hardware Providing services Human consultancy Coordination & Management 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 5
And to who? End-Users or Providers? B2B: European National providers B2C: National/Local Providers End-Users Research Communities Computational? Curated Datasets? Storage? Discipline specific? Support (e.g. collaboration, email, etc.)? 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 6
Experimentation IaaS Software OpenNebula: RESERVOIR & StratusLab Others: OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Application Performance VENUS-C: Open Call for user driven problems Which applications work in the cloud? Application Cost Commercial vs. academic providers 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 7
User Virtualisation Workshop How to provide an EU cloud interface Build on the existing resources in EGI Use the current federated resource model Scale out from your own to other sites Many NGIs interested in engaging Exploit the high performance networks Already linking main EU data centres 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 8
The Virtualised Future VO Specific Operations Staff Experts (Communicating between users & providers) End-Users (National, European & Global Collaborations) Infrastructure Providers Infrastructure Providers (Research & Commerical National, European & Global) 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 9
A Virtualised Ecosystem VO Specific Operations Staff Added Value Services Commercial Providers Research Providers Commercial Providers 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 10
European E-Infrastructure Federated Local ownership, but consolidated Geographically distributed But logically centralised locally & European Open composable virtualised resources Commercial & Academic providers Standards based 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 11
Issues Dealing with a mixed market Commercial: cost effective for some workloads? Research: tuned for other workloads? Put the buying power with the end-user? Where is it we all add value? Not running hardware but human services Strong links with the end-user communities Driving open & standard interfaces By prototyping, adoption, or specification 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 12
Issues Few (none?) true European providers EU Data Centres from USA companies Is this really a problem? Legal issues around data movement From inside outside the organisation? Within the EU? Beyond the EU? 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 13
Questions? http://tf2011.egi.eu/ 23/05/2011 Cloud Services - ASPIRE - May 2011 14