European Cloud Initiative:
implementation status
Augusto BURGUEÑO ARJONA
European Commission
DG CNECT
Unit C1: e-Infrastructure and Science Cloud
Political drivers for action
EC Communication "European Cloud Initiative"
published on 19 April 2016
Three pillars:
 EOSC: the European Open Science Cloud
 EDI: the European Data Infrastructure (Development
and deployment of large-scale EU HPC, data and network
infrastructure)
 Widening access & building trust (SMEs, Industry,
Government)
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
o The EOSC will provide all EU researchers a trusted virtual
environment with free, open and seamless services for data
storage, management, analysis, sharing, and re-use, across
disciplines.
o The EOSC will integrate and consolidate horizontal
eInfrastructures.
o The EOSC will federate existing and emerging thematic data
infrastructures and scientific clouds, effectively bridging
todays fragmentation and ad-hoc solutions.
o The EOSC will add value (scale, data-driven science, inter-
disciplinarity, data to knowledge to innovation) and leverage
current & past infrastructure investment.
 Clear timeline in the EC Communication on the
European Cloud Initiative (ECI) of 19/4/2016
 Topic for a Pilot action for EOSC in 2016 H2020
Research Infrastructure call
 To demonstrate how to ensure availability of scientific data and
data-analysis services through a cloud infrastructure.
 Designing a stakeholder driven governance framework.
 E-Infrastructures topics in 2017 H2020 calls for
federation & interoperability of data infrastructures
 Further substantial investments in the 2018-2020
Work Programme of H2020
European Open Science Cloud: how
Integration and consolidation of eInfras:
users, suppliers and access channels
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e-Infra 2
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EOSC Access Channel
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EINFRA
-12 -
2017
EOSC Implementing Actions
From Action
2016
EOSCpilot to develop and test solutions on governance and architecture,
building on the federation of existing data RI & eInfrastructure
2016
eInfraCentral to develop a pan-European catalogue of eInfrastructure
services
2017
EOSC-Hub and OpenAIRE-Advance to integrate and consolidate access
mechanisms to eInfrastructure, open science and RI services (40M€)
2017
Developement of new innovative open science services (e.g. FREYA for PID
governance and interoperability, but there are more) (20M€)
2018-20
Ensure, through cluster projects, integration/connection of ESFRI RIs
collecting or producing data to the EOSC
2018
Procurement and Integration of commercial services in the EOSC service
offering
2018-19
Exploration of funding mechanisms and legal structures that involve MS and
ensure the Long Term Sustainability of an open EOSC
2020 INFRAEOSC-03-2020 (79M€)
INFRAEOSC-03-2020
Integration and consolidation of pan-European access
mechanisms to public e-infrastructures and commercial
services through the EOSC hub (79M€)
Addressing:
• Users
• Access providers
• Service providers (public and commercial)
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EOSCpilot Objectives
The EOSCpilot represents a first step towards the
development of the European Open Science Cloud.
It will:
• Design and trial a stakeholder-driven governance
framework
• Contribute to the development of European open
science policy and best practice;
• Develop demonstrators of integrated services and
infrastructures in a number of scientific domains,
showcasing interoperability and its benefits;
• Engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing
borders and communities, to build trust and skills
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eInfrastructures: Where do we stand?
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12Outcome of the EINFRA-2017 evaluation 2020 and beyond
E-infrastructureOperational
services
European Open
Science Cloud
New cycle of service
prototypes
EOSC-Hub
Data & distributed computing
e-infrastructure
OpenAIRE-Advance
Access & preservation of
scientific info
DARE
FREYA
PROCESS
XDC
EUXDAT
DEEP
HybridDataCloud
Innovativenewservices
Outcome of EINFRA-12-2017
40M€
20M€
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EOSC-Hub: What is in it for ESFRIs?
• EOSC-Hub will support the ESFRIs as a collaborative effort of the
major pan-European e-Infrastructures.
• It will provide integrated access to services from major
European e-Infrastructures and RIs.
• It will fund Competence Centres related to RIs on the ESFRI
roadmap, to promote use and reuse of common compute, storage
and data services.
• I will collaborates with ESFRI RI cluster projects for continuous
engagement with additional RIs of the ESFRI roadmap.
Participating RIs: EISCAT_3D, EPOS, ICOS and eLTER, LifeWatch;
BBMRI, ECRIN, ELIXIR; HL-LHC and the SKA pathfinder project
LOFAR; CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH ERIC
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OpenAIRE: What is in it for ESFRIs?
• OpenAIRE will look for greater integration with Research
Infrastructures and will develop a catalogue of services that will be
inherently interoperable with and complementary to other EOSC
services.
• Will support the publication of products beyond literature, such as
datasets and software, fostering reproducibility.
• OpenAIRE information space will triple its size reaching 120 million
objects (incl. publications, datasets, methods, tools, etc.) and 60 million
relationships + 8 million full texts articles available for TDM.
• Through the production of dashboards, it will empower institutions for
research assessment and monitoring.
RIs collaborating with OpenAIRE: EPOS, ELIXIR, DARIAH, CERN,
PANGAEA, ICRE8
1515
FREYA: What is in it for ESFRIs?
• A platform that connects and integrates Persistent Identifier (PID)
systems, enabling universal discoverability of data objects and
provenance; a PID service registry across infrastructures.
• Prototypes for new innovative PID services, based on
community needs, for improved discovery, retrieval and access to
resources.
• Open, sustainable framework for collaborative self-governance of
PID services.
RIs involved: British Library (link to DARIAH), DANS (link to
CESSDA), CERN, EMBL-EBI (link to ELIXIR), PANGAEA, STFC
1616
Last but not least: Research Data Alliance
• RDA members collaborate together across the globe to tackle
numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to:
• Reproducibility
• Data preservation
• Best practices for domain repositories
• Legal interoperability
• Data citation
• Data type registries
• Metadata
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In summary
EOSC-HUB
Pan-European access
channel to EOSC services
OPENAIRE
ADVANCE
Open
Access
FREYA
Persistent
Identifiers
Socio technical
network for
Open Science
Services,
software and
data for full
life-cycle of
research
Federated
network of
interlinked
research
objects
EOSC-Pilot
Governance
RDA
Recommendations
1818
€12M
Commercial
services
Public e-
INFRA 1
EOSC
• User interface
• Core service provision
• Access rights
• Catalogue of services eInfraCentral
EOSC-hub
OpenAIRE-Advance
Public e-
INFRA 2
ESFRIs,
ERICs ……
INFRAEOSC-
01-2018
New
innovative
services
INFRAEOSC-
03-2020
€79M
Next technical developments in WP18-20
€28,5M
INFRAEOSC-
02-2019

European Cloud Initiative: implementation status

  • 1.
    European Cloud Initiative: implementationstatus Augusto BURGUEÑO ARJONA European Commission DG CNECT Unit C1: e-Infrastructure and Science Cloud
  • 2.
    Political drivers foraction EC Communication "European Cloud Initiative" published on 19 April 2016 Three pillars:  EOSC: the European Open Science Cloud  EDI: the European Data Infrastructure (Development and deployment of large-scale EU HPC, data and network infrastructure)  Widening access & building trust (SMEs, Industry, Government)
  • 3.
    European Open ScienceCloud (EOSC) o The EOSC will provide all EU researchers a trusted virtual environment with free, open and seamless services for data storage, management, analysis, sharing, and re-use, across disciplines. o The EOSC will integrate and consolidate horizontal eInfrastructures. o The EOSC will federate existing and emerging thematic data infrastructures and scientific clouds, effectively bridging todays fragmentation and ad-hoc solutions. o The EOSC will add value (scale, data-driven science, inter- disciplinarity, data to knowledge to innovation) and leverage current & past infrastructure investment.
  • 4.
     Clear timelinein the EC Communication on the European Cloud Initiative (ECI) of 19/4/2016  Topic for a Pilot action for EOSC in 2016 H2020 Research Infrastructure call  To demonstrate how to ensure availability of scientific data and data-analysis services through a cloud infrastructure.  Designing a stakeholder driven governance framework.  E-Infrastructures topics in 2017 H2020 calls for federation & interoperability of data infrastructures  Further substantial investments in the 2018-2020 Work Programme of H2020 European Open Science Cloud: how
  • 5.
    Integration and consolidationof eInfras: users, suppliers and access channels MS Pan-European e-Infra 1 Pan-European e-Infra 2 Facilities Facilities … … TODAY € € EU EU Researcher € EU € € EU EUROHPC Facilities FUTURE …MS EOSC Access Channel Researcher Comm ercial EINFRA -12 - 2017
  • 6.
    EOSC Implementing Actions FromAction 2016 EOSCpilot to develop and test solutions on governance and architecture, building on the federation of existing data RI & eInfrastructure 2016 eInfraCentral to develop a pan-European catalogue of eInfrastructure services 2017 EOSC-Hub and OpenAIRE-Advance to integrate and consolidate access mechanisms to eInfrastructure, open science and RI services (40M€) 2017 Developement of new innovative open science services (e.g. FREYA for PID governance and interoperability, but there are more) (20M€) 2018-20 Ensure, through cluster projects, integration/connection of ESFRI RIs collecting or producing data to the EOSC 2018 Procurement and Integration of commercial services in the EOSC service offering 2018-19 Exploration of funding mechanisms and legal structures that involve MS and ensure the Long Term Sustainability of an open EOSC 2020 INFRAEOSC-03-2020 (79M€)
  • 7.
    INFRAEOSC-03-2020 Integration and consolidationof pan-European access mechanisms to public e-infrastructures and commercial services through the EOSC hub (79M€) Addressing: • Users • Access providers • Service providers (public and commercial)
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
    1010 EOSCpilot Objectives The EOSCpilotrepresents a first step towards the development of the European Open Science Cloud. It will: • Design and trial a stakeholder-driven governance framework • Contribute to the development of European open science policy and best practice; • Develop demonstrators of integrated services and infrastructures in a number of scientific domains, showcasing interoperability and its benefits; • Engage with a broad range of stakeholders, crossing borders and communities, to build trust and skills 10
  • 11.
  • 12.
    12Outcome of theEINFRA-2017 evaluation 2020 and beyond E-infrastructureOperational services European Open Science Cloud New cycle of service prototypes EOSC-Hub Data & distributed computing e-infrastructure OpenAIRE-Advance Access & preservation of scientific info DARE FREYA PROCESS XDC EUXDAT DEEP HybridDataCloud Innovativenewservices Outcome of EINFRA-12-2017 40M€ 20M€
  • 13.
    1313 EOSC-Hub: What isin it for ESFRIs? • EOSC-Hub will support the ESFRIs as a collaborative effort of the major pan-European e-Infrastructures. • It will provide integrated access to services from major European e-Infrastructures and RIs. • It will fund Competence Centres related to RIs on the ESFRI roadmap, to promote use and reuse of common compute, storage and data services. • I will collaborates with ESFRI RI cluster projects for continuous engagement with additional RIs of the ESFRI roadmap. Participating RIs: EISCAT_3D, EPOS, ICOS and eLTER, LifeWatch; BBMRI, ECRIN, ELIXIR; HL-LHC and the SKA pathfinder project LOFAR; CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH ERIC
  • 14.
    1414 OpenAIRE: What isin it for ESFRIs? • OpenAIRE will look for greater integration with Research Infrastructures and will develop a catalogue of services that will be inherently interoperable with and complementary to other EOSC services. • Will support the publication of products beyond literature, such as datasets and software, fostering reproducibility. • OpenAIRE information space will triple its size reaching 120 million objects (incl. publications, datasets, methods, tools, etc.) and 60 million relationships + 8 million full texts articles available for TDM. • Through the production of dashboards, it will empower institutions for research assessment and monitoring. RIs collaborating with OpenAIRE: EPOS, ELIXIR, DARIAH, CERN, PANGAEA, ICRE8
  • 15.
    1515 FREYA: What isin it for ESFRIs? • A platform that connects and integrates Persistent Identifier (PID) systems, enabling universal discoverability of data objects and provenance; a PID service registry across infrastructures. • Prototypes for new innovative PID services, based on community needs, for improved discovery, retrieval and access to resources. • Open, sustainable framework for collaborative self-governance of PID services. RIs involved: British Library (link to DARIAH), DANS (link to CESSDA), CERN, EMBL-EBI (link to ELIXIR), PANGAEA, STFC
  • 16.
    1616 Last but notleast: Research Data Alliance • RDA members collaborate together across the globe to tackle numerous infrastructure & data sharing challenges related to: • Reproducibility • Data preservation • Best practices for domain repositories • Legal interoperability • Data citation • Data type registries • Metadata
  • 17.
    1717 In summary EOSC-HUB Pan-European access channelto EOSC services OPENAIRE ADVANCE Open Access FREYA Persistent Identifiers Socio technical network for Open Science Services, software and data for full life-cycle of research Federated network of interlinked research objects EOSC-Pilot Governance RDA Recommendations
  • 18.
    1818 €12M Commercial services Public e- INFRA 1 EOSC •User interface • Core service provision • Access rights • Catalogue of services eInfraCentral EOSC-hub OpenAIRE-Advance Public e- INFRA 2 ESFRIs, ERICs …… INFRAEOSC- 01-2018 New innovative services INFRAEOSC- 03-2020 €79M Next technical developments in WP18-20 €28,5M INFRAEOSC- 02-2019

Editor's Notes

  • #12 Current landscape and the roadblocks to the EOSC Fragmentation of infrastructures Lack of interoperability High Performance Computing infrastructures Data sharing Lack of awareness among European businesses, research communities and public bodies