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10th SIG-CISS at CS3

Slides v2.0�March 8, 2023

Mario Reale

Senior Research Engagement Officer�GÉANT

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March 8 - International Women's Day!

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The GÉANT Community �Programme

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Main goal is to exchange experiences, best practices, share hands-on expertise in various domains involving the NRENs, their services and their connected community of users�
Implemented through Special Interest Groups and Task Forces

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The Special Interest Group on Cloud Interoperable Software Stacks

SIG-CISS: mission and goals

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To provide a forum for gathering and exchanging experiences
To share deployment and operations best practices
To stimulate joint efforts in solving everyday operational issues,
To improve awareness of software and hardware solutions
To promulgate mutually agreed upon APIs

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To provide a broader forum for gathering and exchanging experiences, ideas and knowledge on the development, deployment, testing and standardisation of cloud infrastructure software stacks, platforms and workflows.�
To share deployment and operations best practices about all the pillars of the cloud infrastructure. Be the primary community forum in the confluence of computing, storage and networking.Leverage the existing focus groups including CS3 (CERN) on sync&share and storage and OSO (SWITCH) on infrastructure as a service and OpenStack operations.�
To stimulate joint efforts in solving everyday operational issues, developing software components as needed, building and maintaining infrastructure and platforms, including shared / transnational deployments, conducting PoCs, defining functional and quantitative tests. Press into service permanent systems for benchmarking as developed by the open source community, explicitly including work being performed in applicable GÉANT SAs and JRAs; assess their suitability for the private cloud case; and where applicable, feed back requirements and improvement opportunities.�
To improve awareness of software and hardware solutions available on the market and infrastructures, platforms and services provided by NRENs in the area of (federated) cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, data storage, management, automation and big data, and act as a launch pad for joint procurements and/or brokering thereof as appropriate and necessary.�
To help identify current and future requirements and workflows of the scientific/academic community related to computing, storage, data management infrastructure, platforms, services and applications as well as preparing NRENs to address these needs.�
To provide an interface among operators and owners of the cloud computing and storage infrastructure (IT experts) and the actual users i.e. individuals, academic institutions, communities and collaborations (domain experts), that enables mutual understanding of needs and capabilities as well as challenges and opportunities.�
To define, stabilise and promulgate mutually agreed upon APIs as exported by NREN cloud stacks, preferably globally recognised APIs that cloud users can rely on to build their use case upon, and be guaranteed that their use case will in fact work, and be as portable as possible among NRENs.�
To engage with RDA, SIG-Greenhouse, TF-RED, EUDAT, PRACE, EGI and other related groups. Aim for a common cloud platform for execution, plugging in workflows from researchers. Commercial clouds are different, research clouds should be similar. Engage with the Scientific Working Group and Large Deployment Team of the OpenStack community.

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How can GÉANT and the SIG-CISS be useful to CS3 ?

Involve NRENs and the CS3 community in PoCs on selected, specific cloud platforms components of common interest

Testing and benchmarking Storage Performances over the WAN

Leveraging GÉANT DTN network

Monitoring the landscape on the evolution of key aspects related to Cloud platforms

e.g. AAI components - File Systems -Storage platforms -Hybrid and Private Cloud

ASK vendors in providing updates on latest hardware solutions and storage platforms�
Building a Community Knowledge DB on Storage platforms�
[..] Any other idea ? reach out to SIG-CISS !

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Wednesday’s SIG-CISS: 15:15 to 17:50 - Agenda - You are ALL WELCOME

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NEXT (11th) SIG-CISS

11th SIG-CISS in Tirana Albania and online�
co -located with the TNC23 Conference

https://tnc23.geant.org �

Monday, June 5, 2023 14-17:30

Coordinated and co-organised as a whole event together with the “GÉANT Cloud Framework Workshop” - in the morning of same day 9-12:30

Register on �https://events.geant.org/event/1408/registrations/1171/

We will have our sessions:

Hybrid Cloud Use cases
Technology and best practices sharing
NRENs building cloud reports
Probably also a Vendors session

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Thank you !�

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mario.reale@geant.org

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