Cyber-Infrastructure in Horizon 2020EU-Brazil cooperation

Cloudscape Brazil 2014Rio de Janeiro, 20 June 2014

Augusto de AlbuquerqueMinister Counsellor

EU Delegation in BrazilWith

Francisco MedeirosEuropean Commission, Software and Services, Cloud Computing, DG CNECT.E2

Carlos Morais PiresEuropean Commission, e-Infrastructures, DG CNECT.C1

Author’s views do not commit the European Commission

Summary

Cyber-infrastructure

1. E-Infrastructure

• strategic relevance of research infrastructures

• e-infrastructures: moving, processing and managing data

• coherent strategies and opportunities to implement them

2. Cloud Computing

3. Coordinated Calls

Cyber-Infrastructure

The two faces of Cyber-Infrastructure

E-Infrastructure developing the on-line ERA supporting research and innovation across all scientific domains with high speed connectivity, high performance computing and data infrastructure. This is part of the “Excellence in Science” pillar of H2020.

Cloud computing strategy to speed up the adoption and increase of cloud computing across all sectors of the economy

Times of change: research logic machines

Research Data collected at observation or experimentation phase were registered in the scientists notebooks, which used to be paper books

Now research data is stored in digital form. Easier to be processed by "logic machines" programmed with complex models able to dig into the data

Logic machines are made of human scientific knowledge and creativity, software and the underlying hardware

Scientist notebooks can now be linked to a huge amount of other data resources (including scientific papers), computers with unprecedented capacity, eventually connected to global networks

Europe riding the research data wave

Vision: "data e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data.

In a sense, the physical and technical infrastructure becomes invisible and the data themselves become the infrastructure a valuable asset on which science, technology, the economy and society can advance". The High Level Expert Group on

Scientific Data presented Riding the Wave in October 2010

Russell's quote could be extended:

“without data and computing infrastructures few men can achieve much in 21st century’s science”

Who is involved?

data generatorsresearch projects, big research infrastructure, installations or medium size laboratories,

simulation centres, surveys or individual researchersdiscipline-specific data services

providing data and workflows as a service

generic common data services computing centres, libraries,…

researchers as usersusing (and producing) data for science and engineering

community driven data infrastructure, including ESFRI, ESFRI clusters and others

Issues to be addressed (policy framework)

Are publically funded research data a public good?How do we ensure preservation and access?How to we make data discoverable and exchangeable?How to ensure integrity and reliability of data?How do we ensure appropriate recognition?How do we manage intellectual property?How do we deal with privacy in the research context? How do work the long term funding and cost/benefit?How to work at European and global levels? How to foster cooperation with developing countries?etc…

Issues to be addressed (e-infrastructure)

The EC in coordination with EU Member States is looking after research data as an infrastructure

As a valuable and a strategic resource, research data opens at least three key issues to be addressed(*):

•How data can be networked

•How to envision and set up data governance on a global scale

•How the EU can play a leading role in helping start and steer this global trend

(*) Fred Friend, Jean-Claude Guédon Herbert van Sompel “Beyond Sharing and Re-using: Toward Global Data Networking”

Development, deployment & operation of

e-Infrastructures

Development, deployment & operation of

e-Infrastructures

Fostering the innovation potentialof Ris and their human capital

Reinforcing European RI policy and international cooperation

Integrating and opening

existing national RI of pan-European

interest

Developing new world-class RI

ResearchInfrastructures

WP 2014-2015190 million EuroWP 2014-2015

190 million Euro

Horizon 2020

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (E-INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHLIHGTED) Work Programme 2014-2015

CALL 1DEVELOPING NEW

WORLD CLASS INFRASTRUCTURES

CALL 2INTEGRATING AND OPENING

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES OF PAN-EUROPEAN

INTEREST

CALL 3E-INFRASTRUCTURES

CALL 4SUPPORT TO INNOVATION,

HUMAN RESOURCES, POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL

COOPERATION FOR RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURES

DESIGN STUDIES

SUPPORT TO PREPARATORY PHASE OF ESFRI PROJECTS

SUPPORT TO THE INDIVIDUAL IMPLEMENTATION

AND OPERATION OF ESFRI PROJECTS

SUPPORT TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CROSS-CUTTING INFRASTRUCTURE

SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS FOR CLUSTER OF ESFRI AND OTHER RILEVANT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

INITIATIVES IN A GIVEN THEMATIC AREA

INTEGRATING AND OPENING EXISTING NATIONAL AND REGIONAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES OF

PAN-EUTROPEAN INTEREST

INNOVATION SUPPORT

MEASURES

INNOVATIVE PROCUREMENT PILOT ACTION IN THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTATION

STRENGTHENING THE HUMAN CAPITAL OF

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

NEW PROFESSIONS AND SKILLS

FOR E-INFRASTRUCTURES

POLICY MEASURES FOR RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURES

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR RESEARCH

INFRASTRUCTURES

E-INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

NETWORK OF NATIONAL CONTACT

POINTS

CALLS IN 2014DEADLINES SEPT 2014 AND JAN 2015

INITIATIVES STARTING IN 2015 UNTIL 2018

Research Data Alliance: a funder’ perspective

Societal challenges of our time transcend borders

Data and computing intensive science is made of global collaborations

Research data are global

The European Commission has been supporting the set-up of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) to enable data exchange on a global scale

The initial phase of RDA has been supported by the collaboration between the European Commission, the US National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Australian Ministry of Research

Tools for virtual research environments

Tools for virtual research environments

Generic services: preservation, curation storage and computation

Open Access: participatory, distributed infrastructure

Astronomy

Environment

…

Biolo

gy

Medici

ne

Atmosphere/Space Physics

Social SciencesScientific Data(Discipline Specific)

Other Data

Researcher 1

Non Scientific World

Scientific WorldResearcher 2

Aggregated Data Sets(Temporary or Permanent)

Workflows

Aggregation Path

VRE

VRE

RDA projection wall

Take five

5 principles describing the benefits of a global research data infrastructure (G8+O6)

Data is:

Discoverable – IDs, Descriptive Metadata, ...

Accessible – Acknowledgment, License, Terms of Use, Intellectual Property, Legal ...

Understandable – Semantics, Analysis, Quality, Language translation ....

Manageable – Responsibility, Costs, Preservation ...

People (Usable) - Workforce, Cultural, Training, ...

E-Infrastructures, main issues

Data e-Infrastructures increase scope, depth and economies of scale of the scientific enterprise

Horizon 2020 provides tools and opportunities addressing data and computing e-infrastructures

If taken with appropriate resources and critical mass, can project Europe into the new world of data driven science

The objective is to combine the expertise of scientific communities with the expertise of ICT communities capable of exploring the limits of high bandwidth communication, high-performance computing, open scientific software and virtual research environments

2. EU Cloud computing strategy: vision and priorities

Commission Communication of 27 September 2012http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0529:FIN:EN:PDF

Also known as the "European Cloud Strategy"

Strategy designed to speed up the adoption and increase the use of cloud computing across all sectors of the economy

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-1025_en.htm

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Expected benefits

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Motivation for the fast adoption of cloud computing

Cost savings in the deployment of IT services (infrastructures, installations, human resources)

Forecast of expenditure on 'public cloud' services in the EU until 2020€35 billion without policy intervention€78 billion if appropriate policy initiatives are implemented

Impact on all sectors of the economy

Increase of the EU GDP in the year 2020 due to cloud computing€88 billion without policy intervention€250 billion if appropriate policy initiatives are implemented

European Council Conclusions

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EU Heads of State and Government (25 October 2013) Chapter on "Digital Economy, Innovation and Services"

Several strategic technologies such as Big Data and Cloud Computing are important enablers for productivity and better services. Cloud Computing should improve access to data and simplify their sharing. Big Data aims to process, collect, store and analyse large amounts of data

EU action should provide the right framework conditions for a single market for Big Data and Cloud Computing, in particular by promoting high standards for secure, high-quality and reliable cloud services

What about research and innovation?

• COM(2012)529 of 27 September 2012:

• - Make full use of other instruments, notably through research and development support under Horizon 2020 on long term challenges specific to cloud computing as well as assisting the migration to cloud-based solutions

• Current status: significant resources (€100 million) allocated to support advanced cloud computing infrastructures and services

H2020 WP2014-2015: €95 million EU-Brazil: €3.5 million EU-Japan: €1.5 million 18

3. 3rd EU-Brazil R&D Call: Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructure

Proposals with balanced participation of EU and Brazilian partners should make a substantial contribution to the identified themes indicating the benefits of a joint effort

•EUB1–2015: Cloud Computing, including security aspects [€3.5 million EU contribution]•EUB2–2015: High Performance Computing [€2.0 million EU contribution]•EUB3–2015: Experimental Platforms [€1.5 million EU contribution]

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Formalities and schedule

H2020-EUB-2015: funding from 2015 budget

Formal adoption by the Commission: 23 July 2014Opening date: 15 October 2014Deadline: 21 April 2015 @17h00 (Brussels time)Result of evaluation: before 21 September 2015Signature of grant agreements: before 21 December 2015

Additional eligibility criteria: Proposals submitted to this call, which do not include coordination with a Brazilian proposal will be considered ineligibleThe proposed project duration shall not exceed 36 months

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EUB1–2015: Cloud Computing,including security aspects

Specific Challenge: data are motivating a profound transformation in the culture and conduct of scientific research in every field of science and engineering. Advancements in this area are required in terms of cloud-centric applications for big data, as well as in creating novel cloud technologies that provide effective utilization and optimization of heterogeneous resources (such as storage and communications) in big data scenarios, in particular addressing privacy, security and other Quality-of-Service issues*

* In line with statement of EU Heads of State and Governmnet in October 201321

EUB1–2015: scope

Research and Innovation Actions (RIA)The focus of the joint research will be the development of innovative technologies combining advanced Clouds and Big Data approaches to address the challenges stemming from different application domains in business and societal contexts. The technologies developed should take into account interoperability and data portability issues and aim towards future standardization

Coordinated and Support Actions (CSA)One CSA for the research coordination and policy activities, including research roadmapping and supporting further future common activities, i.e. dissemination, organisation of workshops, preparation of future coordinated call topics, etc.

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Expected impact

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The joint EU-Brazil research will develop innovative technologies in the area of cloud based service provision by integrating approaches and aspects of distributed Clouds and Big Data

This collaboration will facilitate policy coordination in the relevant areas between the EU and Brazil, subsequently to be expanded to other LAC partners. In particular:

Facilitate the development of cloud-enabled applications through robust standardized global technologiesDevelopment of technologies integrating cloud and big data in terms of architecture, middleware and servicesJoint contributions to International Standardization and/or Forum activities

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Further informationHorizon 2020http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

Participants Portalhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html

EU-Brazil R&D Cooperation in Advanced Cyber Infrastructurehttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-eub-2015.html#tab2

Digital Agenda – Cloud Computinghttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/telecoms-and-internet/cloud-computing

Open web consultation on Future Topics of common interest

http://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/eu-brazil-ict-cooperation

EU-BR Consultation Workshop

Contact: cnect-eu-brazil@ec.europa.eu

Augusto de AlbuquerqueAugusto.dealbuquerque@eeas.europa.eu

Thank you!