CCI Seminar

SLICES-DS Project and SLICES-RIResearch Topics
Towards Hyperconverged Digital RI andPlatform RI as a Service
Dr. Yuri Demchenko
CCI Seminar 3 Sept 2020
University of Amsterdam

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Outline• SLICES-DS Project and SLICES-RI ESFRI Proposal– Partners– Research topics• Towards Hyperconverged Digital RI and Platform RI as a Service– Leveraging Platform concept for RI platform model– TMForum Digital Platform Reference Architecture (DPRA)• Proposed Platform RI as a Service Architecture (PRIaaS)– Components and technologies

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SLICES-DS H2020 Project• Starts 1 Sept 2020 – Total 24 months• 10 partners: Coordinator Uni Sorbonne– INRIA, PSNC, Uni Carlo III Madrid, UvA, others• 2.9 Mln (UvA – 260K)• Design Study for SLICES-RI project• UvA Role – WP4 leadership, Task T4.2
– Data Management and EOSC cooperation/alignment– Are critical aspects for current EU projects

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Objectives: Focus on SLICES-RI• Objective 1: To adequately design SLICES in order tostrengthen research excellence and innovation capacity ofEuropean researchers and scientists in Digital Infrastructures• Objective 2: To accomplish preparatory work and planning ofthe new Research Infrastructure• Objective 3: To define governance and management of thenew Research Infrastructure• Objective 4: To define models for the financing of the new
Research Infrastructure

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SLICES-DS WPs Structure

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SLICES-DS WPs Structure•WP1 - Requirements, key technologies, roadmaps and trends––––•WP2 - Roadmap for long-term evolution of the Research Infrastructure
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Task 1.1 Technological status and capabilities of existing Test Platforms (SotA)
Task 1.2 Technical and operational requirements from the scientific community
Task 1.3 Analysis of legal compliance and regulation issues in Europe
Task 1.4 Roadmap for long-term evolution of the new RI
Task 2.1 SLICES reference architecture
Task 2.2 Service delivery scheme
Task 2.3 Use case studies of the evaluation of candidate architectures
Task 2.4 Strategy for the deployment of the core infrastructure

WP3 - SLICES Governance and sustainability model
WP4 - Integration and compatibility with EOSC, FAIR and external RIs– Task 4.1 Data Management Policy and FAIR principles adoption– Task 4.2 Integration and interoperability with EOSC infrastructure and services– Task 4.3 Relations with international testbeds••

WP5 - Impact, dissémination and exploitation
WP6 - Project Management

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6UvA in SLICES-DS• WP4 Leadership– Task 4.2 Integration and interoperability with EOSC
infrastructure and services– Deliverable D4.1 SLICES infrastructure and services integration
with EOSC and Open Science (initial proposal) (M12)– Deliverable D4.5 SLICES infrastructure and services integration
with EOSC, Open Science and FAIR: Recommendations anddesign patterns (final report) (M24)• Other contributions– D2.1 Initial description of the SLICES architecture (M12)– D2.3 SLICES Reference Architecture– D4.1 Data Management Policy (M9)
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SLICES-RI Architecture

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8SLICES-RI ESFRI Proposal• SLICES Scientific Large-scale Infrastructure for
Computing/Communication Experimental Studies• ESFRI proposal– (To be) Endorsed by the ESFRI Roadmap– Funded approx 50/50 by National members and EU– Deadline 9 Sept 2020
– 21 partners from 12 countries– Coordinator: University of Sorbonne• Number of national preparation steps– Including into National NL ESFRI Roadmap– Commitment of cooperating organisations
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9SLICES-RI Research Areas••••••

Advanced wireless networking– New waveforms, higher frequencies up to THz– Spectrum and wireless management– Integrated sensing and communication– Heterogeneous radio management
Smart infrastructure operation and management– Advanced protocols and architectures (virtualization, softwarization, programmability)– AI applied to infrastructure operation and optimization– Generation of data to train algorithms– Distribution of intelligence into (and beyond) the Edge of the network
Design and validation of new Digital Infrastructures and hyper-converged infrastructures– Fog/Edge/cloud hyper converged infrastructures– Software component deployment– Distributed resource management & microservices– Geo-distributed data management– Federated deep learning– Datacentre infrastructures for distributed systems, applications and software stacks
Advanced functionalities– New challenges arising from the verticals and the ubiquitous networks– Interoperability, composable infrastructure services on-demand (RI as a Service)– Seamless user experiences across technologies and domains
Energy efficiency and carbon footprint
Security and privacy

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SLICES-NL Research topics (in the context of 5G)• 5G Cloud Native Network infrastructure (CNNI) integration
with cloud based applications– 5G with/for EOSC and GEANT• E2E infrastructure slicing for secure and trusted dataexchange/sharing• Secure data containers and E2E trust management– Cyberinfrastructure security and key management• Experimentation (and applications) on 5G CNNI with IoT andHPC applications

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SLICES-NL Partners• UvA (coordinator for NL)• SURFnet and SURFsara• VU• TUDelft• NLeSC• TNO• ASCI

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SLICES-NL Research topics (UvA and partners)•Cloud and Network Infrastructure research– Architecture and design patterns of the future RI Platform as a Service (PRIaaS)– Federated multi-cloud and inter-cloud infrastructure integration and management– Large scale experimentation on distributed hybrid cloud infrastructure involving public cloudproviders– Decentralised network/compute optimisation in edge/fog environments– Sustainable cloud services with energy consumption monitoring and optimization•Data Infrastructure– Big Data Infrastructure and Technologies (cloud enabled)– Trusted data exchange and processing with policy/rules enforcement, preserving data
sovereignty and protecting data privacy– Data management and quality assurance aspects in Industry 4.0 experimentation and Digital
Twins applications•New security and compliance models for Complex Cyber Infrastructure– Distributed Cyber Security techniques and architectures•••

Trustable and explainable Internet based on open networking technologies
Federated Data Analytics and Deep Learning, in particular for predictive
maintenance, logistics and smart cities
Support of education on key technologies of the future data centric and cloud
enabled infrastructures by provisioning educational platforms and resources foruniversities on demand

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EU and NL involvement into 5G development• EU and NL decided to actively participate and playleading role
• The following frequencies will be used in EU– 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz, and 26 GHz.

• Nederland will use 1.4 GHz and 2.1 GHz– https://stralingsbewust.info/2019/10/25/5g-waar-staan-dezendmasten-voor-test-uitzendingen/• TBD: Universities and research organisations working on 5Gtechnologies

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Timeline e-RI evolution and SLICES positioning

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From EOSC-1 to EOSC-2: Four Technology Aspects
2016-2018

RI Type

EOSC-1

2020-2022

EOSC-2 (future)

Definition

Interoperable Federated(European) RI, FAIR RI

Virtualised Pan-European RI platform as aService and Ecosystem (PRIaaS)

Network &Compute•••••••

Distributed scalable computing
Cloud based Big Data technologies
High performance networks
5G technologies, wireless access
IoT sensor networks
Portal and Services Catalog
Industry standards and IDSAadoption• Composable virtualized RI provisioning on demand (includingfor services integration)• Common federated computing and networking
platform/environment, enabling virtual RIs• Cloud based and cloud enabled• DevOps and AI enabled services• Digital Twins• Interoperability and Integration with Industry infrastructure(e.g. IDSA+, Industrial Internet)

Data Infra••••

FAIR data
Data Factories and PID
Metadata registries
Interoperable/common DataManagement model• Fully adopted FAIR principles, extended to ontologies• Semantically enabled scientific data lakes, commonvocabularies• Secure/trusted data exchange (data markets)• Full data value chain supported (cross-domain)

Security• Federated Identity Management,
Federated Access Control• Automated identity provisioning

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InfraManagntTechnolog• Integrated Operation andAutomation• Fully automated RI and services provisioning, management andoperation• Optimisation of infrastructure and operation• DevOps and AI enabled (re-usable design patterns)

Zero trust security, Trust Bootstrapping
Homomorphic encryption and data processing
Quantum ready encryption, Quantum enabled key management
Federated Identity Management, Federated Access Control
Automated identity provisioning

Beyond2025

Future Platform Research Infrastructure as aService (PRIaaS) – Adopting TMForum DPRA•

TMForum DPRA (Digital Platform Reference Architecture) defines a telecom
services provider platform that allows delivering a fully functional service
platform/infrastructure for customers– IG1157 Digital Platform Reference Architecture Concepts and Principles v5.0.1, 21 July
2020 [online] https://www.tmforum.org/resources/reference/ig1157-digital-platformreference-architecture-concepts-and-principles-v5-0-0/––•

Actualisation Platform is defined as the main DPRA component that enables creating
customer/tenant service ecosystem
Implements platform economy concept

Part of the TMForum Open Digital Architecture– IG1167 TM Forum Exploratory Report ODA Functional Architecture, 31 Jan 2020
[online] https://www.tmforum.org/resources/exploratory-report/ig1167-oda-functionalarchitecture-v5-0/

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17Platform Concept and Platform Economy••••“The platform business model enables interactions between producers andconsumers of value. It achieves this goal through two mechanisms. First, a platform
provides a plug and play infrastructure which encourages open participation by an
external ecosystem of producers and consumers. Second, it lays out the rules ofgovernance for the interactions that ensue.”– Source: Sangeet Paul Choudary , http://platformthinkinglabs.com/start here/“A platform is a business based on enabling value creating interactions between
external producers and consumers. The platform provides an open, participative
infrastructure for these interactions and sets governance conditions for them. The
platform’s overarching purpose: to consummate matches among users and facilitate
the exchange of goods, services, or social currency, thereby enabling value creation
for all participants– Source: Choudary , Sangeet Paul; Van Alstyne , Marshall W.; Parker, Geoffrey G.; Platform
Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them
Work for You

Example platform based businesses: Airbnb, Alibaba, Amazon, Azure (Microsoft),eBay, Facebook, Instagram, KAYAK, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Uber,Upwork
This is in contrast to pipeline based businesses with linear value chains.

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18Platform vs Pipeline Model• Source: Choudary , Sangeet Paul; Van Alstyne , Marshall W.; Parker,Geoffrey G.; Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are
Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You– “Platforms beat pipelines because platforms scale more efficiently byeliminating gatekeepers.” Example: Coursera vs. a college / university– “Platforms beat pipelines because platforms unlock new sources ofvalue creation and supply.” Example: Airbnb vs. an hotel chain– “Platforms beat pipelines by using data based tools to create
community feedback loops.”• For virtualized functions, objective metrics could also be used, in addition tosubjective consumer feedback.

– “Platforms invert the firm”

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Applying Platform Concept to RI•

There is a need for defining and building new type of infrastructure for EOSC
projects– Current EOSC pilot projects successfully demonstrated inter-/multi-domain dataintegration– However, each pilot project built own underlying infrastructure•Future EOSC infrastructure should provide functionality– (1) automate deploying specialized RIs with focus on scientific data integration– (2) create a repository of infrastructure/services design patterns and commontemplates– (3) facilitate cooperative/business relations between partners– (4) apply governance and compliance policies by-design•

Learn from and leverage best industry practice and infrastructuredevelopment trends– Hyperconverged Infrastructure and 5G e2e network slicing– Industry developed platform and cloud native models– DevOps and DevSecOps

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TMForum: Actualization Platform View acrossAccess Network and Hyper-Scale Datacenter• TM Forum has successfully
driven Communicationsindustry-wide convergence on
best practices to operate,
manage and monetize
communications services that,for decades, have beendelivered under a Service• The current platform-driven economic transformation is expect to evolved and spread across the entire worldeconomy.
• The lack of open standards will lead to either an unmanageable proliferation of platforms and APIs, or a
massive consolidation around a few competing de facto standards.
• In either case, as additional platform-based ecosystems become connected and as more value is created acrossmultiple platform based ecosystems, there will be increased interoperating costs and reduced agility withregard to value creation. This will eventually inhibit innovation.
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TMForum: Actualisation Platform View

• TM Forum Actualization Platform View The underlying infrastructure of edge to hyper scale datacenters and networks
that host the software components that make up the Business Platform, enabled by reusable technical capabilities thatare required to operate in an agile and efficient manner.
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22TMForum: DPRA Lifecycle Agility••••Platform Concept: i.e. modelling the things that comprise a Platform, how Platforms expose capabilities and how
Platforms are interconnected.
Platform Specification for one or more platforms to realize a solution.
Platform Implementation in code with the supporting operations processes, policies etc. Note that for each platform
specification there may be multiple implementations on what are called Actualization Platforms (defined later) e.g.
Microsoft Azure, AWS, OpenStack, etc.
Platform Deployment of instances of those Platforms on Actualization Platforms with a configuration that realizes thebusiness solution.

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Virtual RI

Develop &Operate

Datasets,
Archives

RI Users/Researchers

Virtual RI and User Applications
RI Portal

Data Source

Data Target

Access & Federation Infrastructure + IoT and Edge (customer
managnt + Fulflilment & Service Inventory

Actualisation Platform

Dev Env & Tools• DevOps• Templates &Design Patterns

Fulfilment & Lifecyle
Mngnt• SLA Mngn
• Policy based
governance

Infrastructure
Services (P/Iaas)• Compute• Storage• Network• Monitoring• AAI• Security (VPC,PKI & Trust)• Infra Mngnt

Management &Operation• Catalog• Orchestration(multi-lyr&domain)• Auto & Optimisat(AI&ML powered)

PRIaaS Components

Virt Rsr

PRIaaS Architecture
Model (in progress)

VirtualisatedResources

Data Services• Directory(Pub/Sub)• Metadata, PID• Sci Data Lakes(Semantic)• Data Exchange(Data Marts)• Provenance• Data Prep
• Quality
Assurance• FAIR
Compliance
Datasets(ML Training)• Research• Technological

Composable Infrastructure Resource

ComputeStorage

Network

Actualisation Platform
Components• Core Infrastructure
Services (IaaS & PaaS)• Data Services• Management andOperation• DevelopmentEnvironment and Tools– DevOps– Templates and Patterns••Workflow and Lifecycle
Management
Access and Federation
Infrastructure + IoT andEdge

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PRIaaS Technology Aspects and Linked Projects• GEANT GN4-3 Research WPs and Tasks– Operation, Automation, Virtualisation Architecture (OAV)and Service Provider Architecture (SPA)• EOSC– EOSC Architecture and FAIR data principles• Former projects– GN4-1 Open Cloud eXchange (OCX) and Big Data
Architecture Framework (BDAF)– GN4-2 ZeroTouch Provisioning, Operation andManagement (ZTPOM)– GN3 Composable Services Architecture (CSA)– GEYSERS Intercloud Architecture Framework (ICAF)
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SLICES-DS Activities and Actions• Kick-off meeting 17 Sept 2020 (Virtual)• D4.1 Data Management Plan and Open Data – 6M
• Need to plan NL consolidation event– Collect contribution for SLICES-DS– Plan activities for SLICES-RI (in case of successfulproposal)• Possibly include into SURF Program for 2021-2022– Present at SURF Days 2020

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Discussion

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