Building service testbeds on FIRE

BonFIRE open call info teleconference February 9th, 2012

Josep Martrat ATOS

Agenda

Project vision and objectives Three Scenarios overview Project activities Open call data sheet Topic A Experiments Topics B Cloud provider Open call objectives and calendar Experiment structure Experiment submission

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BonFIRE data sheet

Type of project: Integrated Project Project coordinator: ATOS Project start date: 1st June 2010 Duration: 42 months EC contribution: 7.2M (orig 6.7 M) (1.34 M for 2 open calls)

The BonFIRE (Building service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation) project is designing, building and operating a multi-site cloud facility to support research across applications, services and systems targeting services research community on Future Internet.

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BonFIRE Overview
Testing experiments selected in open calls
Service Components in virtual machines to be deployed on the Cloud

Access and Controlled deployment Monitoring Heterogeneous and virtualised Compute, storage and networking resources

Permanent & On-Request infrastructure facilities

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Three Scenarios

1. Extended multi-site clouds connected through normal internet 2. Cloud scenario with emulated network 3. Extended Cloud scenario with controlled network (implies federation with network facility)

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BonFIRE sites
EPCC (Edinburg) Scenario 3 Geant Autobanh and studyng Federica-like PSNC (Poznan) Scenario 1 (normal internet) HP (Bristol) Scenario 2 Emulab (Virtual Wall)

IBBT (Ghent)

HLRS (Stuttgart) INRIA (Rennes) Permanent (<350cores / 30TB) & On-Request (theoretically +3000 cores) infrastructures Note: network links not representative

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Bonfire (simplified!) Architecture* (*details later)

Portal
ID

Restf uly

OVF

Experiment descriptor

BonFIRE API BonFIRE Broker OCCi

Monitoring Experiment manager scheduler Enactor Resource manager orchestrator

Cloud API (OCCi) Cloud Provider

KVM XEN ESXi

Cloud Provider

Open Nebula Cells VMWare

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Project Activities

Each new experiment will be a WP in the Activity 5

Cloud Provider will mainly participate in Act 3 (Act2/6 partially)

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BonFIRE Partnership

Facility operation Facility construction

Researchers
OPEN CALLS EXPERIMENTS

Facility sustainability Project coordination

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Open call for new experiments and a cloud provider

This open call: 600.000 total available EC funding Two Topics; A) Experiments (500K) in Scenarios 1-2-3
Funding per experiment: max 150K (about 3-4 experiments, round 100K typical) Participants: 1 or 2 organizations/experiment max Duration: maximum 12 months

B) Cloud provider (100K)

1 company offering infrastructure and becoming a BonFIRE Cloud site (Proof of Concept) Duration: 15 months

Start date in the project: September 2012 Evaluation (FP7 rules): external evaluators and consensus meeting
Note: Payment scheme: 30% advance payment. Q1 cost. Rest at the end. BonFIRE 10 10

What are we looking for? (Topic A - Experiments)

Testing Experiments to trial on the Cloud semi-consolidated software technologies or semi-mature results of R&D Internet of Services community. Pre-comercial software or prototypes to be optimised, consolidated or study their behaviour on the cloud facility Not pure eScience (Grid-like) applications looking only for capacity / storage but innovative multi-cloud usage scenarios on the facility. Typically the experiment would need to be distributed, with VMs deployed across at least 2 sites/admin domains (scenario 1&3). Certain emphasis is given to scenario 3 (FI research that is very sensible to network parameters (bandwidth reservation) Justify the need of a multi-cloud facility (scenario 1&3) or sophisticated network emulation (scenario 2) in your experiment. Combination of scenarios in an experiment proposal is possible (pahses in an increase of realism). Explain the approach in detail. 11
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What are we looking for? (Topic B Cloud provider)

Company with proven commercial experience in Cloud service provision (with its own IaaS off-the-shelf solutions portfolio) and reference clients Cloud provider offering access to its own infrastructure becoming BonFIRE site (IaaS). Dedicated computing environment where experiments can be deployed. Access via OCCI-based API and web-based interfaces (explain approach) Mnimum requested capacity from 8 to 16 nodes x 4 cores (3GHz) 8 GB RAM and 2-3 Tb SAN (Note: the purchase of hardware is not covered by the project not elegible costs) Organization willing to install and test the BonFIRE stack (broker and portal) in their environment and report the experience Contribute with feedback on sustainability and exploitation tasks 12
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Open call for new experiments

What we offer: BonFIRE features: Controlled deployment on multi-site clouds (scenario 1,2,3) Monitoring of standard metrics at VM or physical level Monitoring of user specified metrics (application level) at VM level Controlled/advanced emulated network (emulab) (for scenario 2) VirtualWorld Controlled deployment with network bandwidth guarantee between 2 cloud sites (scenario 3) Access to heterogeneous resources.

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Open call: structure of experiments

To smooth integrate the experiments into the project:
Basic task list set Common deliverable list Participation in project reporting by partner and Workpackage Interactions with cross activities: experiment support

(more on the applicant guide & proposal template)

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Open call experiment structure: tasks

Task 1 Motivation and Design Task 2 - Experimental set up Task 3 Execution and subsequent iteration Task 3 Execution and subsequent iteration Task 4 - Experimental write up Task 5 Dissemination and Case studies

Gantt diagram can be adapted to specifities of each call (explain this) Synchronised timescale (approx) Control Points (asociated milestones or deliverables) Other structure is possible but must be well justified.

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Our Open Call Calendar

Date (2012) Period Action Call announcment to PO Call publication (last of 3 newspapers + international magazine) + Cordis Jan 3rd (or before) -30 days February 1st February 7th March 7th March 23rd At least +5 weeks Weeks 6,7 ( 2 weeks) Week 10 (3 weeks) Week 17 (7 weeks but can be less) Day 1: call open

InfoCall
Close Call : 17:00 Brussels time (WED) Finalise Call Evaluation Preparations, Communicate Experts to the Commission, Conduct Evaluation Submit Evaluation Report to the PO and request accession of the new beneficiaries Project Officer approves accession of new beneficiaries to grant agreement; project communicates the result of each proposal to the proposer Contract Amendment to reflect new Partners New Partners operative / starting date

April 13th

June 27th

July - August September 1

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IPR issues
BonFIRE Project interest in the open call experiments is the use and improvement of the BonFIRE facility and not the (protected) content per se. The new cloud site is treated separately in terms of IPR. Access API (TBD depending on development contributions and starting point). No ownership rights over Broker (access & use) Experiments are considered sub-projects. Access rights within the sub-project are reserved to sub-project members. In general terms, sub-project partners are not granted access to the foreground or background of the other Parties and the other Parties are not granted access to the foreground or background of the sub-project members. (CA available ondemand) All experiments have to provide a publishable report of their experiment / case study.

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Open call: support

Support documentation available
Full call text Template for proposal and guidelines FAQ / also set up as a blog for interactive questions Support mailing list (process and technical questions)
bonfire@bonfire-project.eu

http://www.bonfire-project.eu/involved/open-call-info
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Open call: submission

Submission of proposals:
Use proposal template provided PDF format one file Language - ENGLISH By email with subject: "Call 2 BonFIRE /your proposal acronym vx.x"

SUBMISSION EMAIL: submissions@bonfire-project.eu DEADLINE: 7th March 17:00 Brussels time

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Thank you for your attention