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=== EGI User Virtualisation Workshop: ===
=== EGI User Virtualisation Workshop: ===


This workshop will bring together three critical groups (resource providers, end-users and technology providers) within the European production infrastructure to ask the following series of questions:
This workshop brought together three critical groups (resource providers, end-users and technology providers) within the European production infrastructure to ask the following series of questions:
* Should EGI move towards providing an 'Infrastructure as a Service' model (a.k.a. cloud computing) tuned to support data intensive research communities?
* Should EGI move towards providing an 'Infrastructure as a Service' model (a.k.a. cloud computing) tuned to support data intensive research communities?
* Should this service be provided by federations of resource providers from the research community, commercially by ''ad hoc'' agreements between users and resource providers, or by collective negotiation and purchase of resources on behalf of different communities?
* Should this service be provided by federations of resource providers from the research community, commercially by ''ad hoc'' agreements between users and resource providers, or by collective negotiation and purchase of resources on behalf of different communities?
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* What are the major issues (e.g. technical, policy, governance, etc.) that need to be resolved for this use to happen?
* What are the major issues (e.g. technical, policy, governance, etc.) that need to be resolved for this use to happen?


Over a 2-3 day workshop through a series of presentations and breakouts we will try to answer these questions in order to end the meeting with a set of critical observations that can be developed into a roadmap that will meet the growing need for virtualised resources from the European research communities.
Over a 2-3 day workshop through a series of presentations and breakouts we tried to answer these questions in order to end the meeting with a set of critical observations that could be developed into a roadmap that will meet the growing need for virtualised resources from the European research communities.


=== Selecting a time and place ===
=== Time and place ===
The workshop will be held 12-13th May 2011 in Amsterdam. Further details on the meeting can be found [http://go.egi.eu/uvw1 here].
The workshop was held 12-13 May 2011 in Amsterdam.


=== Background Material ===
=== Background Material ===
The meeting schedule will deliberately not spend a lot of time on technology related presentations or provide an introduction for cloud computing. There are plenty of meetings that can provide that information. A selection of recent events are provided below:
The meeting schedule deliberately did not spend a lot of time on technology related presentations or provide an introduction for cloud computing. There are plenty of meetings that can provide that information. A selection of recent events are provided below:
* CloudScape III, Brussels, March
* CloudScape III, Brussels, March
* EGI User Forum - Cloud & Virtualisation sessions, Vilnius, Lithuania, April
* EGI User Forum - Cloud & Virtualisation sessions, Vilnius, Lithuania, April
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* DCI Collaborative Roadmap
* DCI Collaborative Roadmap


It would be useful to have short specific presentation understanding the use cases from the e-science community to help motivate the discussions.  
=== Agenda and Post-event Information ===
Workshop webpage: [http://go.egi.eu/uvw1 http://go.egi.eu/uvw1]
Detailed minutes


=== Organisers ===
=== Discussion Mailing List ===
If you are interested in contributing to the organisation of this workshop or wish to be informed once a date has been decided please email [mailto:cloud-discuss@mailman.egi.eu]. Details of the agenda and eventual date of the workshop will be circulated widely within the community once it has been decided.
If you are interested in contributing to the virtualisation discussion, feel free to use [mailto:cloud-discuss@mailman.egi.eu].

Revision as of 10:45, 10 August 2011

Defining a roadmap for a federated virtualised Infrastructure

EGI User Virtualisation Workshop:

This workshop brought together three critical groups (resource providers, end-users and technology providers) within the European production infrastructure to ask the following series of questions:

  • Should EGI move towards providing an 'Infrastructure as a Service' model (a.k.a. cloud computing) tuned to support data intensive research communities?
  • Should this service be provided by federations of resource providers from the research community, commercially by ad hoc agreements between users and resource providers, or by collective negotiation and purchase of resources on behalf of different communities?
  • What sort of use (consuming communities and use cases) would the research community make of such a capability?
  • What are the major issues (e.g. technical, policy, governance, etc.) that need to be resolved for this use to happen?

Over a 2-3 day workshop through a series of presentations and breakouts we tried to answer these questions in order to end the meeting with a set of critical observations that could be developed into a roadmap that will meet the growing need for virtualised resources from the European research communities.

Time and place

The workshop was held 12-13 May 2011 in Amsterdam.

Background Material

The meeting schedule deliberately did not spend a lot of time on technology related presentations or provide an introduction for cloud computing. There are plenty of meetings that can provide that information. A selection of recent events are provided below:

  • CloudScape III, Brussels, March
  • EGI User Forum - Cloud & Virtualisation sessions, Vilnius, Lithuania, April
  • SIENA Grids and Clouds standards roadmap
  • DCI Collaborative Roadmap

Agenda and Post-event Information

Workshop webpage: http://go.egi.eu/uvw1 Detailed minutes

Discussion Mailing List

If you are interested in contributing to the virtualisation discussion, feel free to use [1].