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

Overview

Motivation

EGI currently 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 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.
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).

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

Further details of activities and overall workplan can be found here.

Group Members

  • Sergio Andreozzi, EGI.eu
  • Emanouil Atanassov, IICT-BAS
  • Bruce Becker, CSIR
  • David Blundell, 100 Percent IT Ltd.
  • 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
  • François Ruty, Luna
  • 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 link provides an overview of the technical 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