Open Source and Open Science

A perspective from an open source infrastructure software provider

Ignacio M. Llorente

Gaming Banking SaaSVendor IT Services

What is OpenNebula?The Open-source Private Cloud Project

Public

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

TESTING PRODUCTIZATION

PACKINGDELIVERY

USER-DRIVEN

>100K downloads in the last year

>5K active clouds

Larger 16DC and 300K cores

2K evaluations per month

10 years in the

Infrastructure Market

Telco

Enabling Science with OpenNebulaSpin-off from EU Funding: From Research Project to User-driven Production Tool

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

How Open Source Improves Scientific Infrastructures?

Avoid Vendor Lock-in● Open-source software● Open standards● Transparent development

Collaboration ● Meeting point between

academia, industry and standards

Lower Barrier to Entry● Free software and support● Open source cloud or no cloud

at all

Engine of Innovation● Customization and flexibility to

meet requirements● HPC cloud environments

How Open Source Improves Scientific Infrastructures?

Why OpenNebula (Open Source)?

2019 OPENNEBULA SURVEY, OpenNebula, December 2018

How Open Source Improves Scientific Infrastructures?

What Are the Benefits or Using Open Source?

THE STATE OF ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat, April 2019

Who has ever written a paper/report including numerical experiments (data science, computational physics, bioinformatics, applied mathematics, statistics….)?

How Open Source Is Inspiring New Ways for Opening the Research System?

ACCESSIBILITYIs your article

available online, free to download?

OPEN ACCESS

How Open Source Is Inspiring New Ways for Opening the Research System?

ACCESSIBILITYIs your article

available online, free to download?

OPEN ACCESS

REUSABILITYWould I be able to

reuse your software/dataset?

OPEN DATA

How Open Source Is Inspiring New Ways for Opening the Research System?

ACCESSIBILITYIs your article

available online, free to download?

OPEN ACCESS

REUSABILITYWould I be able to

reuse your software/dataset?

OPEN DATA

REPRODUCIBILITYReproduce your

experiments (software/data +

execution environment) and get same result?

OPEN RESEARCH

How Open Source Is Inspiring New Ways for Opening the Research System?

ACCESSIBILITYIs your article

available online, free to download?

Path to Openness

OPEN ACCESS

REUSABILITYWould I be able to

reuse your software/dataset?

OPEN DATA

REPRODUCIBILITYReproduce your

experiments (software/data +

execution environment) and get same result?

OPEN RESEARCH

EXTENSIBILITYWould I be able to

continue and extend your research?

OPEN SOURCE

How Open Source Is Inspiring New Ways for Opening the Research System?

How to Maximize the Positive Impact of Open Source in the European Science?

Computational and Data Science must be done in an open and reproducible fashion where all components of research are

publicly available and modifiable and the experiments can be reproduced and extended.

Any EU funded project should provide all code/data/docs as open access, open data, open research and open source.