Interest for the Economy: Reaching Supersites sustainability through the creation of a science - commercial ecosystem

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Supersite Coordination Workshop

Brussels, 11 June 2013

Jurry de la Mar (T-Systems)

on behalf of Helix Nebula Consortium

Sustainability

• to keep up or keep going, as an action or process. (Webster)

• is the capacity to endure. (Wikipedia)

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Business Sustainability

Business Sustainability is often defined as managing the triple bottom line - a process by which companies manage their financial, social and environmental risks, obligations and opportunities. These three impacts are sometimes referred to as profits, people and planet.

• Financial Times lexicon: http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=business-sustainability

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GEO Hazard SupersiteDisasters: Reducing loss of life and property from natural and human-induced disasters

DI-01 Informing Risk Management and Disaster Reduction

Aim to reach susta

inability !

data

e-infrastructure

Supersites Exploitation Platform: Infrastructure concept

Universities Research Centers

e-Infrastructure:- Interface

- Computing- Data Mining

SMEs

com

mercia

l

infra

struc

ture public

e-Infrastructure

networks

Where does business sustainability come from? a Super Site?

Data sharing (all data space & in-situ) accessible at no cost through a one-stop-shop e-infrastructure (containing also tools and peers).

Cross-domain: Supersites will lead to a new, more versatile generation of scientists that capitalize on information from multiple techniques.

New business models: pay-as-you-use and costs (partially) covered by income when public and private resources are available in a federation.

Supporting and participating to the value adding process

Creation of an ecosystem building on diversity and risk sharing

Creation of Pan-European Partnership “Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud”

Knowledge

A European cloud computing partnership: big science teams up with big business

Strategic Plan

Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure

Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy

Create governance structure

Define funding schemes

To support the computing capacity

needs for the ATLAS experiment

Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large genomes, for a

deeper insight into evolution and biodiversity

To create an Earth Observation

platform, focusing on earthquake and volcano research

Adopters

www.helix-nebula.eu

Partnership – Why?

• The scale and complexity of services needed to satisfy Europe’s IT-intense scientific research & space organisations are beyond what can be provided by any single company and will require the collaboration of a variety of service providers and SMEs

• By partnering with Science and Space Organizations, it will cover most of the needs of a public Cloud infrastructure, while maintaining EU standards

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Partnership – Who & How?

Scientific and Space Organizations-commit resources-access to data & user communities

IT Providers-commit resources-share investments-agree on standard-interoperability

EC supports with-Policy & Strategy-through targetedcalls under FP7

SME’s-commit resources-link betweenUsers and Providers- Act as catalyser EC Projects

-Standard/Open source-Contributing / using HN

NDAPartnership has grown

from 20 to 34 members in 2012 !

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Long Term Goal

To create a multi-tenant ‘Open Market Place for Science’, where data, scientists, funding bodies, SMEs and downstream industry are meeting to work towards common interests, ensuring quality and EU privacy standards.

An ecosystem to transform data into valuable information

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Contributors to the Ecosystem

Scientists

Data providers

IT Suppliers

Funding Bodies R&D Labs

SME’s

Downstream industry

“Shared Risks -Shared Rewards”

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Expected Benefits

• Breakthroughs in Science thanks to cross-domain fertilization

(data, tools, funding, capacity, peers)• Building scale to handle elasticity• Risk sharing between partners• Compliance with EC rules and policy

(privacy, security, ethics)• Business opportunities for SMEs

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Timeline

2011 2012-2013 2014 …

• Pilot Phase• Deploy flagships,• Analysis of functionality,

performance & financialmodel

Towards an open, sustainable marketfor Science

• Endorse the Common Strategy

• Agree on the Partnership• Select flagships use cases• Define governance model

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• 3 selected from 15 proposals:• European Center for Medium Range

Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)– Weather Data Information Supersite (WDIS)

with 100 years of weather data

• UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)

– Ocean and Coastal Information Supersite (OCIS)

• Port d’Informació Científica (PIC), Barcelona- Neuroimaging Supersite

New Flagships (2013)

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• Recently published document on how a sustainable Ecosystem can be achieved:

A catalyst for change in Europe

http://www.helix-nebula.eu/index.php/uploads/file/81/56/HelixNebula-NOTE-2013-003.pdf.html

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