SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond

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CloudScape III - Taking <strong>European</strong> Cloud Infrastructure Forward certificates and utilizes VOMS services for VO management and end-user authentication. During the second year of the project we plan to investigate hybrid cloud solutions and exploitation of commercial cloud infrastructures. In this case IaaS interoperability will become even more relevant and may re-focus the development and integration activities of the project. Possible future cooperation StratusLab keeps close contact with most of the DCI <strong>European</strong> projects currently under way. In particular the project is in close collaboration with EGI-InSPIRE, EMI and EDGI projects. These collaborations are being formalized with respective MoUs. The project is also planning to collaborate with commercial cloud providers like ElasticHosts and Flexiscale in order to test the application of the StratusLab distribution in hybrid cloud environments. Contact: Vangelis Floros Organisation: GRNET Contact details: support@stratuslab.eu Web: www.stratuslab.eu 42
VENUS-C – Virtual Multidisciplinary Environments Using Cloud Infrastructures General overview and field of application The VENUS-C project is aimed at validating the use of cloud infrastructures to support research in seven user scenarios, plus around ten more applications that will be identified through an open call. Current user scenarios include seven applications across four thematic areas: civil engineering, marine biodiversity, civil protection and emergencies and biomedicine. Specifically, applications focus on 3D static and dynamic structural analysis (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), building information management (Collaboratorio), marine biodiversity maps (National Research Council of Italy), wildfire risk prediction and fire propagation simulation (University of the Aegean), bioinformatics (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), systems biology (Center for Computational and Systems Biology), and drug discovery (Newcastle University), covering a wide range of scientific use cases targeting on the use of intensive computing and data storage. Cloud infrastructures are envisaged as a way to access improved computing power beyond users’ facilities (long-duration earthquake simulations, the alignment of large-scale sequences with respect to public databases, drug discovery over large ligand databases, biological systems simulation, and so on), by adapting computing kernels as worker roles or complete virtual appliances. These working units are orchestrated in a coordinated and reliable framework that ensures the effective execution of the multiple parallel components. However, cloud infrastructures are also acting as enabling technologies providing computing resources for web applications (as in the generation of fire risk and behavior maps, ad-hoc views of marine biodiversity maps or for rendering capabilities in building information). CloudScape III - Taking <strong>European</strong> Cloud Infrastructure Forward The importance of interoperability From the point of view of the user, interoperability can be understood as the ability to switch, choose or use several infrastructures simultaneously. The ability to seamlessly switch from local to external resources provided by cloud infrastructures constitutes an attractive usage model for research. Local resources could deal with test or planning work, whereas external production-quality resources can be used in large experiments. This could be the case for example of a phylogenetic annotation or a drug discovery experiment or the dynamic simulation of an earthquake on a building structure. There are limitations on binaries (which could be hidden by the use of virtual appliances) and performance restrictions, but different infrastructures could even bring different opportunities (and costs). Another important issue is the interoperability in data objects across infrastructures (as data science infrastructures holding public data and computing clouds dealing with it), which would also require “business” interoperability in the way costs could be charged. 43
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