This document summarizes a meeting for the Early Adopter Group for the Helix Nebula Science Cloud Pilot Phase Award Ceremony. It discusses expanding access and deployments during the pilot phase. Key points include open access to resulting cloud services, evaluating projected results and a roadmap for the European Open Science Cloud. It also describes growing the buyers group to include more research organizations as early adopters and conditions for organizations to access the services. A list of upcoming events for demonstrations and training is provided.

1. Early Adopter Group &
Closing Notes
HNSciCloud- Pilot Phase Award Ceremony
6th September 2018
João Fernandes
CERN
Joao.Fernandes <at> cern.ch
Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud with Grant Agreement 687614 is a Pre-Commercial Procurement Action
funded by H2020 Framework Programme
2/6/2018 Maryline Lengert

2. Dec’18Feb’18Dec’17Jun’17
Access to cloud service capacity
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100/
10TB
2k/
200TB
3.5k/
350TB
5k/
500TB
10k/
1PB
10Gbps 40Gbps
Functional
Testing
Scalability
Testing
End User Access
We are here
Cores/
Storage
2 Pilots3 Prototypes
Call-off
Dec’17
2/6/2018

3. Phase Highlights
2/6/2018
• Open access to end users of resulting services
• Expansion of deployments from the earlier ramp-up periods
• HNSciCloud projected results evaluation
• Roadmap for the EOSC
• User feedback and best practices
• Total Cost of Ownership Study
• Realistic, based on a set of flagship use cases deployed
• Plans to commercially exploit the PCP results
• Probe and assess the service vouchers mechanism
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4. Growing the buyers group
Private sector
Gov. agencies
Additional
research orgs.
Procuring
beneficiaries of
EC project
The initial group of buyers is the
set of research orgs. that
committed their resources at the
start of the project and became
beneficiaries of the EC project
Goal is to progressively grow the
buyers group by including more
publicly funded research
organisations: Early adopter group
Document describes
benefits for the stakeholders,
procurement process,
steps for implementation
CERN, DESY, EMBL-EBI,
ESRF, KIT, CNRS, INFN,
PIC-IFAE, SURFsara, STFC
Adopter Group
http://www.hnscicloud.eu/publications/reports/the-hnscicloud-adopter-group
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5. Conditions of access
2/6/2018
• Adopters sign a contract with the service providers
• Consider the service as a commodity – Adopter use
cases to be satisfied without requiring additional R&D
from the providers
• Services delivered in compliance with the HNSciCloud
Cloud Services Agreement
• Adopters will be requested to share their experiences
and acknowledge support of the project
R&D
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6. Upcoming events
2/6/2018
• ESRF 17th - 18th April
• EMBL 4th - 7th June
• CERN 13th - 14th June
• KIT 27th - 31st August
• SURFSARA 11th September
• IFAE 8th - 12th October
• DESY 24th October
• CERN 28th - 30th November
Demos, use-cases, training etc.
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