EGI: Advanced Computing for Research www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra EGI Pay-for-Use Updates and Opportunities EGI Conf’19 – 8 May 2019 - Amsterdam Sy Holsinger Senior Strategy and Policy Officer, EGI Foundation The work of the EGI Foundation is partly funded by the European Commission under H2020 Framework Programme
Content • Brief History • Results to date • Opportunities moving forward www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 2 07/05/2019
Brief History EGI and Pay-for-Use Policy Document 2013 • Initial thought analysis: benefits, risks, suggested actions Proof of Concept • ~40 participants (30 Providers across 12 Countries) 2014 • Policy/legal analysis by country/provider • Pricing definition/publication Tool Adaptation 2015 • GOCDB, Accounting Portal, e-GRANT Formalization 2016 • Agreements, documentation • Formal Letters of Intent Use cases 2019 • H2020 Projects, tenders, ESA brokering, training www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 3 07/05/2019
Involving EGI Providers H2020 Projects, External Requests • How to participate as a service provider in H2020 projects? § Project consortium member / beneficiary o Pro: visibility, clear responsibilities, delivery of tasks/activities o Con: not favored by coordinators when multiple providers are involved; provider selection § Linked Third Party (Section 4) to project beneficiary o Pro: minimizes number of consortium members, specified participants/effort/resources o Con: technical requirements not always known during proposal; need to identify providers § Contractor (to be named later during the life of the project) o Pro: flexibility of providers if technical requirements are not known during proposal phase o 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 www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 4 07/05/2019
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) www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 5 07/05/2019
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) www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 6 07/05/2019
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 • www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 7 07/05/2019
Pay-for-Use Cases Monetizing services Pure pay-for-use model • In-house courses • Open registration courses • Formal certification (APMG, ICO-Cert) • www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 8 07/05/2019
Documentation Agreements, Processes, Business Models • 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 www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 9 07/05/2019
Opportunities Pricing Tools: Automation and Accounting EGI Accounting Portal COCA (Swiss) www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 10 07/05/2019
Opportunities Moving forward • Understand that funding resources is an issue and want to create diverse opportunities 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 www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra 11 07/05/2019
EGI: Advanced Computing for Research www.egi.eu @EGI_eInfra Thank you for your attention. Questions? This work by the EGI Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The work of the EGI Foundation is partly funded by the European Commission under H2020 Framework Programme
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