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== Overview  ==
EGI currently operates within a publicly funded research and academic environment providing services free at the point of delivery with resources bought from grants dedicated to certain groups or disciplines either by direct allocation or by peer review. With the advent of cloud computing, business models and user expectations are shifting towards on-demand and pay-per-use service provision increasing flexibility and agility. This new paradigm provides motivation for EGI to provide new service definitions by enabling the possibility to provide ICT services that can be paid for the use, along with the more traditional procurement of resources to be managed and offered for free to the owners.<br> This approach also allows researchers and resource providers to better understand costs to access individual services and would enable the creation of innovative business models and pricing schemes (e.g. pay-per-use).


<br>
 
 
== Business Models  ==
 
EGI provides a number of business models depending on the customer and use case, these can be summarized as:
 
*B2B: SaaS and/or PaaS providers integrated with EGI providing IaaS
*B2C: Direct consumption of services and support
 
The EGI Foundation can facilitate 2 separate roles:
 
*Matchmaker: Identifying a single EGI&nbsp;service provider who can best support the given use case
*Broker: Represent multiple EGI service providers offering a single point of contact. This model is attractive for use cases that require distributed environments across multiple sites, for resource requests that are unable to be fulfilled by a single provider, and having the potential for negotiation of pricing packages.


== Providers, Services and Prices  ==
== Providers, Services and Prices  ==


<span style="font-size: 13.28px;">The following table provides an overview of the current service providers within EGI</span><span style="font-size: 13.28px;">&nbsp;who can support pay-for-use models, services and resources offered and pricing</span><span style="font-size: 13.28px;">.</span>  
The following table provides an overview of the current service providers within EGI<span style="font-size: 13.28px;">&nbsp;who can support pay-for-use models and the services and pricing offered. All providers listed has provided a signed Letter of Intent stating their abilty to deliver services are a payment basis ensuring both organisational and national legal and policy aspects have been respected.</span>  


{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 13.28px;"
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|-
|-
! scope="col" | NGI/RC
! scope="col" | Provider
! scope="col" | GOCDB Name
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Contact
! scope="col" | Service Type  
! scope="col" | Service Type  
! scope="col" | Services and Resources  
! scope="col" | Services and Resources  
! scope="col" | Access Policy  
! scope="col" | Access Policy  
! scope="col" | Preferred Payment Direct/Indirect
! scope="col" | Grid Compute Price<br>[HEPSPEC06/hr]*
! scope="col" | Grid Compute Price<br>[HEPSPEC06/hr]  
! scope="col" | Cloud Compute Price<br>[wallclock/hr]  
! scope="col" | Cloud Compute Price<br>[wallclock/hr]  
! scope="col" | Grid Storage Price<br>[€/GB/Month]  
! scope="col" | Grid Storage Price<br>[€/GB/Month]  
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! scope="col" | VAT<br>[%]
! scope="col" | VAT<br>[%]
|-
|-
! scope="row" | Albert Einstein Center, Univ. of Bern
! scope="row" | Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA)  
| UNIBE-LHEP
| Spain
| Sigve Haug
| Batch via CENTOS 5/6 ARC CE<br>
|
*500 cores (approx. 2 months in 2013) on highest priority;
*Consumption preferably in one go, but distributed in time also possible
*10-20 TB disk on local SE for consumption period via DPM SRM interface plus two weeks
 
|
| Both
| €0.03/hr
| N/A
| No long-term storage offered. Disk up to 20 TB for CPU usage period plus to weeks for free.
| N/A
| 8%
|-
! scope="row" | NGI_BG
| BG01-IPP
| Todor Gurov<br>Emanouil Atanassov
|
Batch &amp; Grid: EMI-2/EMI-3
 
|
*16 NVIDIA Tesla M2090 6 GB + 48 core Intel Xeon E5679 @ 2.53GHz with 4 GB of RAM per core
*576 cores Intel Xeon X5560 @ 2.8GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM per core
*MPI jobs
*Non-blocking InfiniBand interconnect
*132 TB of storage provisioned through Lustre FS (/home and /scratch systems), EMI dCache
 
|
| Both
|
*€1.00/GPU/hr. + VAT (GPU-enabled servers)
*€0.02/core/HEPSPEC06/hr. + VAT (CPU only Intel Xeon X5560-based cluster)
 
| N/A
| €0.04/GB/month (+VAT) via dCache. Maximal capacity 30TB.
| N/A
| 20%
|-
! scope="row" | CESGA-IBERGRID
| CESGA
| Carlos Fernandez&nbsp;<br>Pablo Rey
| Batch + Cloud  
| Batch + Cloud  
|  
|  
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|  
|  
| Direct
*Any customer type and location
*R&amp;D only
 
|  
|  
€0.02/core/HEPSPEC06 hour
*€0.02/core<br>


| €0.04/core+2GB RAM/hour (+VAT) Example:  
| €0.04/core+2GB RAM/hour (+VAT) Example:  
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*large: 4 cores &amp; 8GB €0.16/hour
*large: 4 cores &amp; 8GB €0.16/hour


| €0.055/GB/month (+VAT)  
| €0.055 (+VAT)  
| €0.055/GB/month (+VAT)
| €0.055 + VAT
| 21%
| 21%
|-
|-
! scope="row" | IFCA-IBERGRID
! scope="row" | Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA)
| IFCA-LCG2
| Spain
| Jesus Marco
| Batch (SLURM, SGE) + Cloud  
| Batch (SLURM, SGE) + Cloud  
|  
|  
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|  
|  
| Both, Direct preferred
*Any customer type and location
*R&amp;D only
 
|  
|  
*€0.05/core/hour for usual instances,&nbsp;&lt;0.01/core/HS06 hour (+ VAT)  
*€0.05/core/hour for usual instances,&nbsp;&lt;0.01/core/HS06 hour (+ VAT)  
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|-
|-
! scope="row" | Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (II SAS)  
! scope="row" | Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (II SAS)  
| IISAS-FedCloud
| Slovakia
|
Ladislav Hluchý<br>Viet Tran
 
| Cloud (Openstack)  
| Cloud (Openstack)  
|  
|  
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|  
|  
| Both
*Joint development projects where resource costs are translated into human effort in time
 
| N/A  
| N/A  
| €0.06/core/h +VAT  
| €0.06/core/h +VAT  
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| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBD</span>  
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBD</span>  
| 20%
| 20%
|-
! scope="row" | Latvian Grid
| IMCSUL
| Kaspars Krampis
| Cloud: OpenStack, GRID: ARC + SLURM
|
*CPU: Up to 256 cores, RAM up to 4GB per core
|
| TBC
| €0.07/core/hr + VAT
| N/A
| TBD
| N/A
| 21%
|-
! scope="row" | MASTER-UP Srl
| UNI-PERUGIA
|
Alessandro Costantini<br>Antonio Lagana
| EMI1/2, CEs, WNs, SE
|
*EMI1 middleware (phasing to EMI2) - CE's, WN's and SE.
*10 nodes to start (intel 4core, ethernet connection)
*Long experience in Molecular Science and Comp Chem, can provide support for such innovative applications and in the field of R&amp;D for combustion, energy and material science.
*Managing a computer farm of 200 cores and 4TB of storage part of those resources are supporting EGI.
|
| Direct
| €0.05
| N/A
| €0.01/GB per month
| N/A
| 22%
|-
! scope="row" | NGI_GRNET
| All HG-*
| Kostas Koumantaros
| Cloud and Grid
| *TBC
|
| TBC
| €0.05/hr + VAT
| €0.05 + VAT
| TBD
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">€0.14 + VAT</span>
| 23%
|-
! scope="row" | NGI-IT
|
INFN-BARI PRISMA-INFN-BARI (cloud)
INFN-XX
| Vincenzo Spinoso
| EMI, OpenStack
|
*gLite MW stack: Cream CE, LFC, Storm SE, WMS+LB, BDII.
*Cloud: OpenSTACK
|
| Both
| €0.07/hr + VAT
| €0.05 + VAT
| €0.02 + VAT
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">€0.02 + VAT</span>
| 22%
|-
|-
! scope="row" | 100 Percent IT  
! scope="row" | 100 Percent IT  
| 100IT
| England
| David Blundell
| Cloud (Openstack)  
| Cloud (Openstack)  
|  
|  
*Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz  
*Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz  
*Cloud via OpenStack
*Cloud via OpenStack
*RAM up to 4GB per core
|
*Any customer type and location
*Commercial applications accepted


| Available to all
| Both
| N/A  
| N/A  
| €0.07 + VAT  
| €0.03/core/h + VAT  
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">N/A</span>  
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">N/A</span>  
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBD</span>  
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">€0.03 + VAT</span>  
| 20%
| 20%
|-
! scope="row" | PL-Grid
| CYFRONET-LCG2
| Mariusz Sterzel
| Cloud + Batch via Cream / EMI
|
*Computing power, storage, and human support
*Batch processing via Cream CE/EMI
*Cloud access
*Non-grid, local access to queue system
|
| Both
| €0.03 + VAT
| €0.04 + VAT
| TBD
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBD</span>
| 23%
|-
|-
! scope="row" | TUBITAK ULAKBIM  
! scope="row" | TUBITAK ULAKBIM  
| TR-10-ULAKBIM
| Turkey
| Onur Temizsoylu<br>Feyza Eryol
| Cloud + Batch  
| Cloud + Batch  
|  
|  
*Batch processing via Cream CE  
*Batch processing via Cream CE  
*VM Management using OpenNebula/OCCI  
*VM Management using OCCI  
*Infiniband connected Linux computing resources  
*Infiniband connected Linux computing resources  
*Grid: 288 cores (AMD Opteron 6174, 48 core, 128 GB memory)  
*Grid: 288 cores (AMD Opteron 6174, 48 core, 128 GB memory)  
*Cloud: 336 cores (AMD Opteron 6174, 48 core, 128 GB memory)
*Cloud: 168 cores (AMD Opteron 6176, 24 core, 128 GB memory)


|  
|  
| Both
|  
| €0.04/core/hour + VAT  
*€0.04/core/hour + VAT
 
| €0.05/core/hour + VAT  
| €0.05/core/hour + VAT  
| TBD  
| TBD  
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| 18%
| 18%
|-
|-
! scope="row" | UIIP NASB
! scope="row" | Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
| BY-UIIP
| Poland
| Serge Salamanka
| HPC + Cloud  
| Cloud + Batch
|  
|  
*Batch processing via UNICORE or QCG-Computing
*Batch via CREAM CE/local SLURM
*Intel Xeon E5472 (3,0 GHz, 4 Cores) 50 nodes / 100 physical CPUs
*Cloud via OpenStack
*400 virtual CPUs
*Up to 6000 cores in servers with 4, 20, 32 physical cores, Xeon E5 v3 and v4
*400 Gb memory
*Infiniband access to other nodes and storage possible for MPI jobs
*8TB Disk storage – 9-12TB Storage servers
*RAM from 32GB to 256GB
*Infiniband DDR 20Gbit/sec]


|  
|  
| Indirect
*Any customer type and location
| $0.077/hr 1 Core
*R&amp;D only
| $0.015/hr
 
| $0.055/GB/month
| $0.055/GB/month
| 20%
|-
! scope="row" | Fraunhofer SCAI
| SCAI
| Horst Schwichtenberg
| Cloud (Openstack) + Grid (gLite)
|  
|  
Cloud:
*€0.03/core/h + VAT for HPC cluster usage


*Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93GHz
|
*Non-blocking QDR InfiniBand interconnect (40GBps)
*€0.035/core/h +VAT for compute VM
*€0.01/core/h + VAT for service oriented VM


Grid:
|
€0,016 + VAT


*AMD Opteron
|
*DDR Infiniband
€0,012 + VAT


|  
|  
| TBC
23%
| €0.02
 
| TBC
| TBD
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBC</span>
| 19%
|-
|-
! scope="row" | CSC, IT Center for Science, Ltd.  
! scope="row" | CSC - IT Center for Science, Ltd.  
| CSC-cloud
| Finland
| Janne Ignatius, Luís Alves
| Cloud (Openstack)  
| Cloud (Openstack)  
|  
|  
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|  
|  
| Direct
*Any customer type and location
*R&amp;D only
 
| N/A  
| N/A  
| € 0.04  
| € 0.04  
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| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBD</span>  
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">TBD</span>  
| 24%
| 24%
|-
! scope="row" | ReCaS (INFN/Univ. of Bari)
| Italy
| Cloud (Openstack)
|
*120 cores AMD 6376 2,3 Ghz (Cloud)
*1, 2, 4, 8 cores VMs
*RAM up to 4GB per core<br>
|
*Any customer type and location
*R&amp;D only
| N/A
| € 0.018
| <span style="font-size: 13.28px;">N/A</span>
| € 0.025
| 22%
|}
|}


<br>  
(*)&nbsp;[https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/FAQ_HEP_SPEC06 https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/FAQ_HEP_SPEC06]
 
<br>
 
== How to&nbsp;  ==
 
=== Request services  ===
 
*Simply fill out the following service request form: [https://www.egi.eu/request-service/ https://www.egi.eu/request-service]


== How to&nbsp; ==
=== Join as a provider<br>  ===


=== Request services ===
*Any EGI pay-for-use provider must be a [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC09_Resource_Centre_Registration_and_Certification certified EGI provider] and registered in the [https://goc.egi.eu GOCDB]


=== Join as a provider ===
*A [https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2VDZ6gys8DjbEZ0MFNKLXZuR0U Letter of Intent] must be signed and sent to [mailto:business@egi.eu business@egi.eu]&nbsp;along with all information outlined in the table above.<br>


<br>


== Contact  ==


== Contact ==
For any further information contact: [mailto:business@egi.eu business@egi.eu]

Latest revision as of 16:39, 1 March 2018


EGI currently operates within a publicly funded research and academic environment providing services free at the point of delivery with resources bought from grants dedicated to certain groups or disciplines either by direct allocation or by peer review. With the advent of cloud computing, business models and user expectations are shifting towards on-demand and pay-per-use service provision increasing flexibility and agility. This new paradigm provides motivation for EGI to provide new service definitions by enabling the possibility to provide ICT services that can be paid for the use, along with the more traditional procurement of resources to be managed and offered for free to the owners.
This approach also allows researchers and resource providers to better understand costs to access individual services and would enable the creation of innovative business models and pricing schemes (e.g. pay-per-use).


Business Models

EGI provides a number of business models depending on the customer and use case, these can be summarized as:

  • B2B: SaaS and/or PaaS providers integrated with EGI providing IaaS
  • B2C: Direct consumption of services and support

The EGI Foundation can facilitate 2 separate roles:

  • Matchmaker: Identifying a single EGI service provider who can best support the given use case
  • Broker: Represent multiple EGI service providers offering a single point of contact. This model is attractive for use cases that require distributed environments across multiple sites, for resource requests that are unable to be fulfilled by a single provider, and having the potential for negotiation of pricing packages.

Providers, Services and Prices

The following table provides an overview of the current service providers within EGI who can support pay-for-use models and the services and pricing offered. All providers listed has provided a signed Letter of Intent stating their abilty to deliver services are a payment basis ensuring both organisational and national legal and policy aspects have been respected.

Provider Country Service Type Services and Resources Access Policy Grid Compute Price
[HEPSPEC06/hr]*
Cloud Compute Price
[wallclock/hr]
Grid Storage Price
[€/GB/Month]
Cloud Storage Price
[€/GB/Month]
VAT
[%]
Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA) Spain Batch + Cloud
  • 720 cores (Batch) AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6174 2.2Ghz
  • 240 cores (Cloud) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 2.27GHz
  • MPI jobs
  • RAM from 1GB to 32GB per core
  • Any customer type and location
  • R&D only
  • €0.02/core
€0.04/core+2GB RAM/hour (+VAT) Example:
  • small: 1 core & 2GB €0.04/hour
  • medium: 2 cores & 4GB €0.08/hour
  • large: 4 cores & 8GB €0.16/hour
€0.055 (+VAT) €0.055 + VAT 21%
Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA) Spain Batch (SLURM, SGE) + Cloud
  • Batch via CREAM CE
  • Cloud via OpenStack
  • Up to 2500 cores in servers with 4, 8, 16, 40 physical cores
  • Infiniband access to other nodes and storage possible for MPI jobs
  • RAM from 4GB to 256GB per core (max 1TB)
  • Any customer type and location
  • R&D only
  • €0.05/core/hour for usual instances, <0.01/core/HS06 hour (+ VAT)
  • €0.04/core/hour for multicore use (>128 cores)
€0.03 Minimal storage free, requests up to 100 TB high performance storage possible €0.05 21%
Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (II SAS) Slovakia Cloud (Openstack)
  • 120 cores (Cloud) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5570 2.93GHz
  • 1, 2, 4, 8 cores VMs
  • RAM up to 4GB per core
  • Joint development projects where resource costs are translated into human effort in time
N/A €0.06/core/h +VAT N/A TBD 20%
100 Percent IT England Cloud (Openstack)
  • Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz
  • Cloud via OpenStack
  • RAM up to 4GB per core
  • Any customer type and location
  • Commercial applications accepted
N/A €0.03/core/h + VAT N/A €0.03 + VAT 20%
TUBITAK ULAKBIM Turkey Cloud + Batch
  • Batch processing via Cream CE
  • VM Management using OCCI
  • Infiniband connected Linux computing resources
  • Grid: 288 cores (AMD Opteron 6174, 48 core, 128 GB memory)
  • Cloud: 168 cores (AMD Opteron 6176, 24 core, 128 GB memory)
  • €0.04/core/hour + VAT
€0.05/core/hour + VAT TBD TBD 18%
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) Poland HPC + Cloud
  • Batch via CREAM CE/local SLURM
  • Cloud via OpenStack
  • Up to 6000 cores in servers with 4, 20, 32 physical cores, Xeon E5 v3 and v4
  • Infiniband access to other nodes and storage possible for MPI jobs
  • RAM from 32GB to 256GB
  • Any customer type and location
  • R&D only
  • €0.03/core/h + VAT for HPC cluster usage
  • €0.035/core/h +VAT for compute VM
  • €0.01/core/h + VAT for service oriented VM

€0,016 + VAT

€0,012 + VAT

23%

CSC - IT Center for Science, Ltd. Finland Cloud (Openstack)
  • Intel Xeon E5-2670 @ 2.6 GHz
  • Any customer type and location
  • R&D only
N/A € 0.04 N/A TBD 24%
ReCaS (INFN/Univ. of Bari) Italy Cloud (Openstack)
  • 120 cores AMD 6376 2,3 Ghz (Cloud)
  • 1, 2, 4, 8 cores VMs
  • RAM up to 4GB per core
  • Any customer type and location
  • R&D only
N/A € 0.018 N/A € 0.025 22%

(*) https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/FAQ_HEP_SPEC06


How to 

Request services

Join as a provider


Contact

For any further information contact: business@egi.eu