SAICG Science Applications In Clouds and Grids 15-16 March 2012.

SAICG

Science Applications In Clouds and Grids

15-16 March 2012

House Rules

Advantages

• Services on demand• Don’t need to run machine rooms• Economy of scale (maybe)

Gaps

• Skills – how to adapt things for cloud• Suitability

– HPC – MPI latency

• Coding to PaaS?• Workflow?• Standards?

JISCPRESERVATION-IN-THE-CLOUD WORKSHOP

Data in the cloud?

Cloud Services

• “New” (old) services in the cloud– integrity-as-a-service– preservation-as-a-service– archiving-as-a-service– backup-as-a-service

• Layer on Storage-as-a-service?

• What are the (successful) case studies?

• Data preservation policies...?• Green(er) IT in the cloud?• Need for transparency in

infrastructure

Advice?

• Advice/services to– public sector/gov’t (eg ENISA - EU)– academia (eg JISC - UK)

• How much cost (savings) can be transferred to the cloud

SCIENTIFIC SERVICES IN THE CLOUD

This workshop

Cloud Models for Science

• Using SaaS/PaaS/IaaS• Data services – adding

preservation, archives, backup, secure data

• Costing for big data and science

Future of Clouds?

• Higher level services• Make use of research

– How do we turn it to prod’n?– ... sustainably? (projects close...)

• Towards mix & match (eg hybrid, or combine grids/clouds/sc)

This Workshop

• Focus on scientific applications in the cloud

• Gaps, advantages, common stuff...• Can we get better at doing science in

the cloud?• Case studies?

References...?

• Magellan report (Argonne+NERSC)• e-Infrastructure reports

Many thanks to...

• EPSRC – for funding this workshop• OeRC – for hosting the workshop• The programme committee

(JISC+FNAL)