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= Technical Details =
= Technical Details =


The following table provides an overview of the technical details of the resource and technology providers for the PoC.
The following [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Pay-for-Use_PoC_Technical_Details|link] provides an overview of the [https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_Pay-for-Use_PoC_Technical_Details|technical details] of the resource and technology providers for the PoC.
 
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! scope="col" | NGI/RC
! scope="col" | GOCDB Name
! scope="col" | Service Type
! scope="col" | Services and Resources
! scope="col" | Preferred Payment Direct/Indirect
! scope="col" | Price
|-
! scope="row" | Albert Einstein Center, Univ. of Bern
| UNIBE-LHEP
| 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; Storage free
|-
! scope="row" | Bulgaria Grid Portal
| BG08-Madara
| TBC
|
*TBC
 
| TBC
| TBC
|-
! scope="row" | Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
| IISAS-FedCloud
| Cloud
|
*TBC
 
| TBC
| TBC
|-
! scope="row" | Latvian Grid
| IMCSUL
| TBC
|
*TBC
 
| TBC
| TBC
|-
! scope="row" | Leibniz SC Centre
| LRZ
| Globus
|
*Linux Cluster through Globus: GRAM5, GridFTP, Gsissh
 
| Indirect
| Price and capacity to be detailed later
|-
! scope="row" | MASTER-UP Srl
| TBC
| 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
| To be evaluated
|-
! scope="row" | NGI-DE
| TBC
| UNICORE
|
*Cluster via UNICORE
*Others can be offered (TBD)
 
| Both
| €0.06/hr + 19% VAT
|-
! scope="row" | NGI_GRNET
| All HG-*
| Cloud and Grid
|
*TBC
 
| TBC
| TBC
|-
! scope="row" | NGI-IT
| TBC
| EMI
|
*gLite MW stack: Cream CE, LFC, Storm SE, WMS+LB, BDII.  
*Cloud: WNodes and OpenSTACK
 
| TBD
| €0.07/hr + 21% VAT
|-
! scope="row" | PL-Grid
| TBC
| 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
| Capacity and price are a subject to negotiation
|-
! scope="row" | TUBITAK ULAKBIM
| TR-10-ULAKBIM
| Cloud + Batch
|
*Batch processing via Cream CE
*VM Management using OpenNebula/OCCI
*Infiniband connected Linux computing resources
 
| Both
| €0.15/hour 8 core 24 GB instance
|-
! scope="row" | UIIP NASB
| BY-UIIP
| Cloud + Batch
|
*Batch processing via UNICORE or Cream CE
*Intel Xeon E5472 (3,0 GHz, 4 Cores) 50 nodes / 100 physical CPUs
*400 virtual CPUs
*400 Gb memory
*8TB Disk storage – 9-12TB Storage servers
*Infiniband DDR 20Gbit/sec]
 
| Indirect
| $0.077/hr (TBD) 1 Core
|}


= How to Join =
= How to Join =

Revision as of 10:54, 10 January 2014

Pay-For-Use menu: Home Processes/Instructions Service/Price Overview Service Management Legal/Policy Actions Meetings


This page is dedicated to the EGI Pay-for-Use Proof of Concept and Activities.

Overview

Motivation

Sustainability has been an issue explored by EGI in various ways over the last couple years. There are also messages from the European Commission that keeping the status quo is not an option for e-Infrastructures and EGI should therefore explore options around a more market driven e-Infrastructure for supporting the ERA. However, EGI operates within a publicly funded research and academic environment providing services free at 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 another motivation for EGI to explore 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.

Mandate

In early 2013, the EGI Council approved a policy to explore business models for pay-for-use service delivery to couple together with the traditional method of free-at-point-of-use. The goal of this activity is to support the implementation of this policy in collaboration with NGIs through the definition and execution of proof of concepts. The mandate of the group is to create a proof of concept pay-for-use prototype.

Objectives

The objectives are the group are to:

  1. Articulate appropriate business and responsibility models
  2. Define prices for services from the participating sites
  3. Define agreements and service management processes and procedures
  4. Introduce a billing function
  5. Analyse the changes needed to support services and roll out the new functionalities in the production environment
  6. Evaluate legal, policy, and organisational issues around the full implementation of the pay-for-use model
  7. Submit a report covering the overall activities and final output as part of the final EGI-InSPIRE periodic report.

This activity will be closely linked to TNA5.1 Strategy, Policy and Business Development; SA5.2: Federated Cloud and JRA2.2 Accounting.

Milestones/Timeline (12 months)

  • January 2014: Kick-off of the activity
  • April 2014: First phase implementation of all technical specifications, list of required agreements and refinements to policy issues documented in the EGI Sustainability Plan (M48)
  • May 2014: Pay-for-Use aspects included in Federated Cloud release (even in Beta/pre-production)
  • June 2014: First presentation of activities and feedback from EGI-InSPIRE EC Review
  • October 2014: Conclusion of phase 2 activities: updates from feedback and overall refinements
  • December 2014: Circulation/Publication of Final Proof of Concept Report

Group Members

  • Sergio Andreozzi, EGI.eu
  • Emanouil Atanassov, IICT-BAS
  • Bruce Becker, CSIR
  • Wilhelm Buehler, KIT-G
  • Isabel Campos, CSIC
  • Daniele Cesini, INFN-CNAF
  • Alessandro Costantini, INFN/Master-Up
  • Feyza Eryol, TUBITAK ULAKBIM
  • Carlos Fernandez Sanchez, CESGA
  • Tiziana Ferrari, EGI.eu
  • Luciano Gaido, INFN
  • André Gemünd, Fraunhofer SCAI
  • John Gordon, STFC
  • Todor Gurov, IICT-BAS
  • Sigve Haug, ETH ZURICH
  • Helmut Heller, BADW
  • Ladislav Hluchý, IISAS
  • Sy Holsinger, EGI.eu
  • Kostas Koumantaros, GRNET
  • Kaspars Krampis, IMCS UL
  • Antonio Lagana, UNIPG/Master-Up
  • Panos Louridas, GRNET
  • Giorgio Maggi, INFN-Bari
  • Jesus Marco, IFCA/CSIC
  • Stuart Pullinger, STFC
  • Serge Salamanka, UIIP NASB
  • Diego Scardaci, INFN
  • Alvaro Simon, CESGA
  • Vincenzo Spinoso, INFN-Bari
  • Mariusz Sterzel, CYFRONET
  • Achim Streit, KIT-G
  • Jelena Tamulienė, VU
  • Onur Temizsoylu, TUBITAK ULAKBIM

Technical Details

The following [1] provides an overview of the details of the resource and technology providers for the PoC.

How to Join

If you would like to participate in the Proof of Concept, contact policy@egi.eu

References