VT EGI Pay-for-Use PoC

This page is dedicated to the EGI Pay-for-Use Pilot Group and Activities.

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.

Objectives

This Pilot Group was set up following an exploratory report approved by the EGI Council for how pay-for-use models for EGI resources could be implemented alongside existing procedures where users are billed for the usage of resources.

Group Members

Sergio Andreozzi, EGI.eu

Axel Berg, SARA

Vincent Breton, CNRS

Wilhelm Buehler, KIT-G

Daniele Cesini, INFN

Alessandro Costantini, INFN

Andrea Cristofori, INFN

Feyza Eryol, TUBITAK ULAKBIM

Tiziana Ferrari, EGI.EU

Luciano Gaido, INFN

Sigve Haug, ETH ZURICH

Helmut Heller, BADW

Sy Holsinger, EGI.EU

Antonio Lagana, UNIPG

Yannick Legre, CNRS

Steven Newhouse, EGI.EU

Alison Packer, STFC

Serge Salamanka, UIIP NASB

Diego Scardaci, INFN

Mariusz Sterzel, CYFRONET

Achim Streit, KIT-G

Onur Temizsoylu, TUBITAK ULAKBIM

Technical Details

(See dedicated page - TBC)