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Objective

Over the coming 10-15 years the generation of vast amounts of data created by scientific research domains will create enormous challenges for capturing, managing and processing of this data. Tests have been made but today commercial cloud services do not play a significant role in the production computing environments for the publicly funded research sector in Europe. Stimulated by the Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) commitment of leading research organisations from 7 countries, HNSciCloud will pull together commercial cloud service providers, publicly funded e-Infrastructures and the buyers’ in-house resources to build a hybrid cloud platform on top of which a competitive marketplace of European cloud players can develop their own services for a wider range of users. This project will bring Europe’s technical development, policy and procurement activities together to remove fragmentation and maximise exploitation. The alignment of commercial and public (regional, national, and European) strategies will increase the rate of innovation. Through a competitive series of design, prototype and pilot steps, HNSciCloud will contract suppliers to deliver a 5% scale deployment of a hybrid cloud platform that can address the extreme needs of world class scientific research, including:
• Catalog of secure and interoperable services from multiple suppliers that have successfully passed an international recognised certification process
• Agile procurement process suitable for the dynamic cloud services market and tailored to the needs of the public research sector
• Development of monitoring frameworks to ensure compliance with international security and interoperability standards, performance criteria and financial benchmarking against global market leaders.
The resulting common platform will be evaluated by end-users and exploited as the incubator for new businesses and scientific activities engaging a growing number of buyers, suppliers & users.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Topic(s)

ICT-08-2015 - Boosting public sector productivity and innovation through cloud computing services

Call for proposal

H2020-ICT-2015

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Funding Scheme

COFUND-PCP - COFUND (PCP)

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Coordinator

EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

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Route De Meyrin Cern
1211 Geneva 23

Switzerland

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EU Contribution

€ 4 360 926

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ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 27 450

STIFTUNG DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 44 731

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS

France

EU Contribution

€ 33 576

TRUST-IT SERVICES LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 94 300

KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 19 925

SURFSARA BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 23 632

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

United Kingdom

UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 20 056

STICHTING EGI

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 50 394

EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 25 434

INSTITUTO DE FISICA DE ALTAS ENERGIAS

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 15 950

Project information

HNSciCloud

Grant agreement ID: 687614

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 January 2016
End date

31 December 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 6 770 127
EU contribution

€ 4 716 374

Coordinated by:

EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

Switzerland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HNSciCloud (Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud)

Reporting period: 2016-01-01 to 2017-12-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Driven by the commitment of leading research organisations from across Europe, HNSciCloud aims to create a competitive marketplace of innovative cloud services serving the European Research Area. Stimulated by the Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) commitment of 10 leading European research organisations based in 7 different countries, HNSciCloud pulls together commercial cloud service providers, publicly funded e-Infrastructures and the buyers’ in-house resources to build a hybrid cloud platform on top of which a competitive marketplace of European cloud players can develop their own services for a wider range of users. This 30-month project brings Europe’s technical development, policy and procurement activities together to remove fragmentation and maximise exploitation. The alignment of commercial and public (regional, national, and European) strategies will increase the rate of innovation. Through a competitive series of design, prototype and pilot steps, HNSciCloud will contract suppliers to deliver a 5% scale deployment of a hybrid cloud platform that can address the extreme needs of world class scientific research, including:

- Catalogue of secure and interoperable services from multiple suppliers that have successfully passed an international recognised certification process
- Agile procurement process suitable for the dynamic cloud services market and tailored to the needs of the public research sector
- Development of monitoring frameworks to ensure compliance with international security and interoperability standards, performance criteria and financial benchmarking against global market leaders.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

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Project information

HNSciCloud

Grant agreement ID: 687614

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 January 2016
End date

31 December 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 6 770 127
EU contribution

€ 4 716 374

Coordinated by:

EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

Deliverables

Documents, reports (10)

Summary report of the pilot stage: lessons learned

The lessons learned from the platform pilot will be documented and will serve as input for the 'Best Practices' in WP6

Summary report of the prototype stage: lessons learned

The lessons learned from the platform prototype will be documented and will serve as input for the 'Best Practices' in WP6

Summary report of the design stage: lessons learned

The lessons learned from the design platform will be documented and will serve as input for the 'Best Practices' in WP6

Communication, Dissemination & Stakeholder Engagement Impact

Report on the outcomes of all communication, dissemination and stakeholder engagement activities performed and impact gauging

Tender Material Publication

Tender Material Publication, including: - Signed Joint Procurement Agreement - Tender Evaluation Criteria - Technical Requirements - Procurement Contract

Communication, Dissemination Outreach & Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Report including the communication, dissemination and stakeholder engagement strategy and covering all communication and outreach activities planned across the target groups. It also defines the performance measures that can be used to monitor the effectiveness of the plan. WP7 identifies SMEs as a stakeholder group in the promotion of the PCP tender and a specific section on SMEs as potential suppliers will be part of deliverable D7.1 Communication). SME engagement will be monitored via an expansion of the key performance indicators as follows: Number of suppliers contacted : 30 (of which 30% will be SMEs) Number of bidding suppliers: 19 (of which 30% will be SMEs) An updated version of the plan is foreseen at month 18.

Roadmap for the implementation of a full-scale European open science cloud

Based on an evaluation of the results from the PCP co-fund action and the best practices assessment, this report will be composed of recommendations for future activities.

HNSciCloud Overall and Individual Exploitation Plans

Document detailing a proposal for exploiting the HNSciCloud solutions after the project end

Report on the open market consultation and the results

Report on the open market consultation and the results duly taken into account to define the tender specifications

Best Practices Report

The assessment will be based on the Summary reports of “lessons learnt” from each implementation stage: deign, prototyping and pilot. This report will feed into the Roadmap for the implementation of a full-scale European open science cloud, which will be documented

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Demonstration to the EC of the test products resulting from the procured R&D services

The procured services will be compared to existing production grid solutions deployed by WLCG and EGI. The WLCG collaboration ran a series of service challenges to establish the production grid system and the lessons learned and tools developed during this process will be valuable in assessing the acceptability of the R&D services to be procured. To monitor the results, a series of existing software test tools developed in the WLCG and EGI will be demonstrated

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Plan describing what data the project will generate, whether and how it will be exploited or made accessible for verification and reuse, and how it will be curated and preserved.

Publications

Other (4)

€5.3 million tender for Hybrid Cloud Platform serving science

Author(s): Bob Jones (CERN)

Published in: Cloud28+, 2016, ISSN 0000-0000

Method to Calculate the Total Cost of Ownership of Infrastructure as a Service

Author(s): Devouassoux Marion

Published in: Issue 1, 2018

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1463982

D3.2 Summary report of the design stage and lessons learned

Author(s): Vernet, Renaud; Jones, Bob

Published in: Issue 1, 2017

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1216014

D5.2 Summary report of the pilot stage: lessons learned

Author(s): Andrea Chierici; Bob Jones; Joao Fernandes

Published in: Issue 1, 2018

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1412306

Project information

HNSciCloud

Grant agreement ID: 687614

Project website

Status

Closed project

Start date

1 January 2016
End date

31 December 2018

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 6 770 127
EU contribution

€ 4 716 374

Coordinated by:

EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

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Record number: 200107

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