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| Titel |
Helix Nebula: Enabling federation of existing data infrastructures and data services to an overarching cross-domain e-infrastructure |
| VerfasserIn |
Wolfgang Lengert, Jordi Farres, Riccardo Lanari, Francesco Casu, Michele Manunta, Gerard Lassalle-Balier |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250092724
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-7083.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Helix Nebula has established a growing public private partnership of more than 30
commercial cloud providers, SMEs, and publicly funded research organisations and
e-infrastructures. The Helix Nebula strategy is to establish a federated cloud service across
Europe. Three high-profile flagships, sponsored by CERN (high energy physics), EMBL
(life sciences) and ESA/DLR/CNES/CNR (earth science), have been deployed and
extensively tested within this federated environment. The commitments behind
these initial flagships have created a critical mass that attracts suppliers and users
to the initiative, to work together towards an "Information as a Service" market
place.
Significant progress in implementing the following 4 programmatic goals (as outlined in the
strategic Plan Ref.1) has been achieved:
• Goal #1 Establish a Cloud Computing Infrastructure for the European Research Area (ERA)
serving as a platform for innovation and evolution of the overall infrastructure.
• Goal #2 Identify and adopt suitable policies for trust, security and privacy on a
European-level can be provided by the European Cloud Computing framework and
infrastructure.
• Goal #3 Create a light-weight governance structure for the future European Cloud
Computing Infrastructure that involves all the stakeholders and can evolve over time as the
infrastructure, services and user-base grows.
• Goal #4 Define a funding scheme involving the three stake-holder groups (service suppliers,
users, EC and national funding agencies) into a Public-Private-Partnership model to
implement a Cloud Computing Infrastructure that delivers a sustainable business environment
adhering to European level policies.
Now in 2014 a first version of this generic cross-domain e-infrastructure is ready to go into
operations building on federation of European industry and contributors (data, tools,
knowledge, -¦).
This presentation describes how Helix Nebula is being used in the domain of earth science
focusing on geohazards. The so called "Supersite Exploitation Platform" (SSEP) provides
scientists an overarching federated e-infrastructure with a very fast access to (i) large volume
of data (EO/non-space data), (ii) computing resources (e.g. hybrid cloud/grid), (iii)
processing software (e.g. toolboxes, RTMs, retrieval baselines, visualization routines), and
(iv) general platform capabilities (e.g. user management and access control, accounting,
information portal, collaborative tools, social networks etc.). In this federation each data
provider remains in full control of the implementation of its data policy. This presentation
outlines the Architecture (technical and services) supporting very heterogeneous science
domains as well as the procedures for new-comers to join the Helix Nebula Market
Place.
Ref.1 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1374172/files/CERN-OPEN-2011-036.pdf |
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