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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