EUBrazilCloudConnect Presentation at EUBrasilCloudFORUM concertation meeting, in RIo de Janeiro (Brasil) at 18th March 2016

1. EUBrasilCloudFORUM
concertation meeting
18 March, CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2. Session 1: EU-Brazil ICT
collaboration today
Ignacio Blanquer, Polytechnic University of Valencia - UPV
EUBrazilCloudConnect (EUBrazilCC)
EU-Brazil Cloud infrastructure Connecting federated resources for
Scientific Advancement
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3. Foster EU-Brazil
international cooperation
in distributed computing
infrastructures at three
levels
One Federated Cloud
infrastructure
One integrated Software
development Platform
3 Applications fostering
international
collaboration
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CSGRID
PDAS
eScienceC
entral
COMPSs /
PMES
Infrastr.
Manager
fogbow
mc2
CSGRID
PDAS
eScienceC
entral
COMPSs /
PMES
Infrastr.
Manager
fogbow
mc2
EUBrazilCC objective & focus

4. EU-Brazil Cloud achieved results
Creation of international collaborations
In Vascular Simulation, Leishmaniasis, Climate Change and Biodiversity
Interoperability of EU and Brazilian technology in Clouds
Promotion Extensions International Standards (OCCI)
A platform for Cloud and Data Analytics Services
Established Cloudscape as the place for ICT networking
between Europe and Brazil
Leading industries and initiatives adopting EU & Br technology
bits developed or improved in the project
5/9/2016 EUBrazilCC – FP7-614048 4

5. EUBrazilCC long lasting assets (1/2)
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Name of the
assets
Short Description Exploitation path
or plans
Community of interest
Fogbow Distributed lightweight cloud federation
framework & use of security policies
Adopted by RNP and
SERPRO
ICT, e-Infrastructure
providers.
CSGrid Platform-agnostic job-submission service
for heterogeneous HPC systems
Already in production
in industry
Simulation in general
Infrastructure
Manager (IM)
Platform-agnostic DevOps providing
deployment and cloud broker service
supporting multiple back-ends
Transferred to
industry and research
projects
Cloud infrastructure
providers and application
developers
COMPSs Platform-agnostic parallel programming
framework for clouds
Used by EGI
community and
research projects
Parallel processing in
general
PDAS Data analytics service for
multidimensional datasets
Research projects Data analytics, especially
climate
e-ScienceCentral Cloud enabled fine-grain workflow
management platform
Internal research
projects
Data analytics
mc2 Scientific gateway for application-specific
gateways
SINAPAD HPC network Simulation in general

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Name of the
assets
Short Description Exploitation path
or plans
Community of
interest
LeishVL A platform for the
management of Leishmaniasis
BR Ministry of Health;
WHO; communities
of other vector-
borne diseases
Parasitology
AlyaADAN Integrated vascular simulation Research hospitals /
Pharma and medical
device industries
Medical Informatics,
vascular researchers
Climate Change
Sci Gateway
Integrates data, services, and
processing pipelines to address
climate change and
biodiversity research
challenges
EMBRAPA / INSA /
ANA / AESA /
Lifewatch
Climate change and
biodiversity research
CLOUDSCAPE
Brazil
Conference series EUBrasilCloudFORUM Cloud technology
stakeholders
EUBrazilCC long lasting assets (2/2)

7. EUBrazilCC & Cloud computing
challenges
• Data Flow and Portability
• Data-centric solution, moving computing close to data stores
thanks to the implementation of cloud resources federation
• Vendor lock-in
• Adoption (and extension of OCCI) of standards
• Implementation of interoperable components
• Infrastructure-agnostic platform
• Industry interested in open source solutions to be integrated
in their services
• Other general cloud policy aspects
• Reduce requirements and maximize site autonomy in the
federation of resources.
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8. Hurdles & recommendations
• Data flows and Portability
• Federation of cloud resources is the way forward
• Need to have computing resources aside data stores
• Need to replicate and synchronize reference data
• Vendor lock-in
• Concern on the adoption of standards by industry
• Still complex preparation of VMIs, contextualization is easier
for final users
• Variety of solutions however increases complexity
• Need for differentiation
• Research infrastructures cannot compete in cost with public
clouds – need to provide not covered functionality
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