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VT EGI Pay-for-Use PoC

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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.

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

Technical details to be included

NGI/RC GOCDB Name Service Type Services and Resources Preferred Payment Direct/Indirect Price
Albert Einstein Center, Univ. of Bern UNIBE-LHEP Batch via CENTOS 5/6 ARC CE
  • 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
Bulgaria Grid Portal BG08-Madara TBC
  • TBC
TBC TBC
Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences IISAS-FedCloud Cloud
  • TBC
TBC TBC
Latvian Grid TBC Globus
  • TBC
TBC TBC
Leibniz SC Centre TBC Globus
  • Linux Cluster through Globus: GRAM5, GridFTP, Gsissh
Indirect Price and capacity to be detailed later
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&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
NGI-DE TBC UNICORE
  • Cluster via UNICORE
  • Others can be offered (TBD)
Both €0.06/hr + 19% VAT
NGI_GRNET TBC Cloud and Grid
  • TBC
TBC TBC
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
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
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
UIIP NASB TBC 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

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

References