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EGI: Advanced Computing for Research www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra EGI Pay-for-Use Updates and Opportunities EGI Conf19 8 May 2019 - Amsterdam Sy Holsinger Senior Strategy and Policy Officer, EGI Foundation The work of the EGI Foundation is

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EGI: Advanced Computing for Research

Updates and Opportunities

EGI Conf’19 – 8 May 2019 - Amsterdam

EGI Pay-for-Use

Senior Strategy and Policy Officer, EGI Foundation

Sy Holsinger

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Brief History
Results to date
Opportunities moving forward

Content

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Brief History

EGI and Pay-for-Use 2013 2014 2015 2016 2019

Proof of Concept

~40 participants (30 Providers across 12 Countries)
Policy/legal analysis by country/provider
Pricing definition/publication

Policy Document

Initial thought analysis: benefits, risks, suggested actions

Tool Adaptation

GOCDB, Accounting Portal, e-GRANT

Formalization

Agreements, documentation
Formal Letters of Intent

Use cases

H2020 Projects, tenders, ESA brokering, training

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How to participate as a service provider in H2020 projects?

§ Project consortium member / beneficiary

Pro: visibility, clear responsibilities, delivery of tasks/activities
Con: not favored by coordinators when multiple providers are involved; provider selection

§ Linked Third Party (Section 4) to project beneficiary

Pro: minimizes number of consortium members, specified participants/effort/resources
Con: technical requirements not always known during proposal; need to identify providers

§ Contractor (to be named later during the life of the project)

Pro: flexibility of providers if technical requirements are not known during proposal phase
Con: justification/clear guidelines to convince reviewers, additional overhead to manage
How to manage external requests?

§ Matchmaking one-to-one relationships § Brokering and coordination for multi-provider scenarios § Defining/facilitating business and pricing models

Involving EGI Providers

H2020 Projects, External Requests

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Pay-for-Use Cases

H2020 Projects

Innovative Pilots Business Pilots

Contractor model
10+2 Pilots
Core Services
€100k budget
€33k allocated to 5 EGI

Providers (6 pilots)

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Pay-for-Use Cases

H2020 Projects

Consortium member model
6 initial business pilots
Need to onboard more
€100k budget
Still need to understand costs

(recovery only)

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Pay-for-Use Cases

Brokering External Requests

Pure pay-for-use model
€8k contract / 12 Months
4 EGI Cloud Providers selected
SLA/OLAs in place
Data hub/DIAS benchmarking

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Pay-for-Use Cases

Monetizing services

Pure pay-for-use model
In-house courses
Open registration courses
Formal certification (APMG, ICO-Cert)

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Letter of Intent

§ EGI Provider statement of availability and willingness to provide pay-for-use services § Specification under what conditions (in/out country; R&D only; human only; any) § Providers need to be able to invoice EGI Foundation

Service Offers

§ Providers to respond to requests with pricing that includes both technical resources and amount of support

Selection criteria

§ Hasn’t been and not only about who is the cheapest, but selection criteria to be better documented (SLM procedure)

New P4U SLAs and OLAs templates

§ SLA: EGI Foundation and Customer § OLA: EGI Foundation and EGI Provider

Broker and coordination fees

§ e.g. 25% on top of compute costs to cover brokering and coordination effort (when not covered within a project) § Pricing model and naming to be better defined

Documentation

Agreements, Processes, Business Models

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COCA (Swiss)

Opportunities

Pricing Tools: Automation and Accounting

EGI Accounting Portal

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Understand that funding resources is an issue and want to create diverse
pportunities for re-distributing funds to EGI providers

§ H2020 projects; brokering external requests; commercializing services § Projects helped to test/improve processes (i.e. NextGEOSS) § More requests are coming

Would like to expand the provider pool, only a handful are taking advantage

§ 6 usual suspects: CESGA; CESNET; IFCA; INFN-Bari; IISAS; 100%IT

Want to better understand any blocking issues

§ Inability/willingness to commit, just didn’t know, need support?

Need to reduce overhead (time) and increase transparency

§ Clearer price listings, better defined procedures and guidelines

Opportunities

Moving forward

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