Pay-for-use

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 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 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, services and resources offered and pricing.

NGI/RC	GOCDB Name	Contact	Service Type	Services and Resources	Access Policy	Preferred Payment Direct/Indirect	Grid Compute Price [HEPSPEC06/hr]	Cloud Compute Price [wallclock/hr]	Grid Storage Price [€/GB/Month]	Cloud Storage Price [€/GB/Month]	VAT [%]
CESGA-IBERGRID	CESGA	Carlos Fernandez  Pablo Rey	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		Direct	€0.02/core/HEPSPEC06 hour	€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/GB/month (+VAT)	€0.055/GB/month (+VAT)	21%
IFCA-IBERGRID	IFCA-LCG2	Jesus Marco	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)		Both, Direct preferred	€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)	IISAS-FedCloud	Ladislav Hluchý Viet Tran	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		Both	N/A	€0.06/core/h +VAT	N/A	TBD	20%
100 Percent IT	100IT	David Blundell	Cloud (Openstack)	Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz Cloud via OpenStack	Available to all	Both	N/A	€0.07 + VAT	N/A	TBD	20%
TUBITAK ULAKBIM	TR-10-ULAKBIM	Onur Temizsoylu Feyza Eryol	Cloud + Batch	Batch processing via Cream CE VM Management using OpenNebula/OCCI Infiniband connected Linux computing resources Grid: 288 cores (AMD Opteron 6174, 48 core, 128 GB memory) Cloud: 336 cores (AMD Opteron 6174, 48 core, 128 GB memory)		Both	€0.04/core/hour + VAT	€0.05/core/hour + VAT	TBD	TBD	18%
CSC, IT Center for Science, Ltd.	CSC-cloud	Janne Ignatius, Luís Alves	Cloud (Openstack)	Intel Xeon E5-2670 @ 2.6 GHz		Direct	N/A	€ 0.04	N/A	TBD	24%