Pay per use on cloud

Europe/Amsterdam

Attendees:

  • Gianni Dalla Torre, Enol Fernandez, Sy Holsinger and Giuseppe La Rocca (EGI Foundation)
  • Aida Palacio Hoz (IFCA-LCG2)
  • Alan Platt (100%IT)
  • Carlos Fernandez (CESGA)
  • Feyza Eryol (TUBITAK)
  • Giacinto Donvito (RECAS-BARI)
  • Jerome Pansanel (IN2P3-IRES)
  • Joao Pina (LIP)
  • Radosław Januszewski, Marcin Pospieszny (PSNC)
  • Viet Tran (IISAS)

Apologies:

  • Zdenek Sustr (CESNET)
  • Emir Imamagic (SRCE)

 

The status of the EGI Pay-for-use model as well as the demand for resources allocation in 2021 was introduced by Giuseppe, Gianni and Enol. After the introduction, the cloud/HPC providers of the EGI Federation reported their feedback and suggestions. More details are reported below:

  •  IFCA-LCG2:
    • Already member of the P4U group.
    • Interested to continue the support in 2021 offering GPU resources
  • 100%IT:
    • Already member of the P4U group. 
    • Interested to contribute offering resources to support the new capacity allocation
    • Already ISO27K certified
    • Suggestion: Include which technologies will be used to access resources in the open call (e.g.: Terraform, etc.)
  • CESGA:
    • Already member of the P4U group. 
    • Interested to contribute with the support.
    • In 2021 the CESGA infrastructure will be further extended with additional resources
  • TUBITAK:
    • Already member of the P4U group. 
    • Interested to contribute with the support. 
    • Plan to extend the IaaS with new resources (including GPU) in 2021 (Q3)
    • No ISO27K certification
  • RECAS-BARI:
    • Already member of the P4U group. 
    • Interested to contribute with the support. 
    • Planning for a certification of the provider
    • Suggestion: To reduce the efforts in dealing with invoices try to group several use-cases/pilots per agreement
  • IN2P3-IRES:
    • New member of the P4U group.
    • Interested to contribute and offer resources
    • Not yet ISO27K certification. The process will start soon
    • Additional GPU resources will be available in 2021
    • Invoices: Working with Universities it's much easier to sign agreements with EGI
  • LIP:
    • New member of the P4U group.
    • Interested to contribute and offer resources
    • Suggestions:
      • To reduce the efforts in dealing with invoices try to group several use-cases/pilots per agreement
      • In the open call add the access type: Federated, or local access (in case of HPC)
  • PSNC:
    • Already member of the P4U group. 
    • Interested to contribute with the support. 
    • Expand the HPC/Cloud computing capacity
    • Already ISO27K certification
    • Limited GPU (<100)
  • DESY:
    • To report after internal discussion with other team members
  • IISAS:
    • Already member of the P4U group. 
    • Interested to contribute with the support.  
    • Expand the IaaS infrastructure with additional resources in 2021
    • No yet ISO27K certified

ACTIONs:

  • Update the available information in the wiki and move it in a confluence page
    • Create a dedicated group in Confluence to protect sensitive data
  • Collect EoIs of the cloud providers per scientific communities/disciplines
  • Assess the option of time frame based invoices which could reduce the number of invoices for providers that wins more call in the same period

 

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