Dear Juanjo
Very good progress, appreciated, IBM fully supports.
All Best
-Yaron
From: Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>
To: "fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu" <fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu>
Date: 15/02/2012 07:49 PM
Subject: [Fiware-pcc] RATHER IMPORTANT: Physical infrastructure for
the FI-WARE Testbed and OpenLab
Sent by: fiware-pcc-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu
Hi all,
Sorry for the long email, but it is difficult to keep it shorter and we
definitively need that the FI-WARE PCC takes a look at it and take a
decision ASAP, preferably before end of this week.
This mail is to update you on our developments regarding the definition
of the physical infrastructure that will be linked to both the FI-WARE
Testbed and the FI-WARE Open Lab (which is essentially an enlargement of
the FI-WARE Testbed in terms of resources, plus the fact that usage will
not be limited to UC projects).
The plan below has been agreed with Engineering as leader of WP10
(Testbed).
We have been able to negotiate with Red.es, a public entity linked to
the Spanish Ministry of Industry, the plan for acquiring, deploying and
operating a rather ambitious physical infrastructure to support the
FI-WARE Testbed and the FI-WARE Open Lab. I hope that you will share
our excitement about what we have managed to agree with them since it will
allow us to setup a rather ambitious FI-WARE Testbed/OpenLab.
The budget devoted to acquisition of the equipments (computing, storage
and communication) for such physical infrastructure would be of about 950
K? and would be put by Red.es, with support of Regional funds. You have
read it well: acquired equipments, for almost as much as 1M? of budget,
will be made available to FI-WARE *WITHOUT ANY COST TO THE PROJECT*.
Acquired equipments will be owned by Red.es, but they will be for our
exclusive usage. Red.es will also manage deployment of those equipments
in a dedicated space within a DataCenter they own and operate. To take
advantage of the Regional funds, this datacenter should be placed in
Sevilla (a city in Andalucia, who is one of the developing regions that
may take advantage of these regional funds). On the other hand, Red.es
will also warrant connectivity to Internet through the RedIris network
they operate. RedIris is the Spanish National Research and Education
Network connected to the GEANT Pan-European Research Network and the
Internet. It will responsability of FI-WARE to deploy FI-WARE GEs on top
of this physical setup, and operate the deployed FI-WARE Instance (this,
of course, will mean that Red.es will have to provide admin access
privileges to people working in FI-WARE)
However, in order to put in place this ambitious plan, we need to
allocate some resources that we could execute to subcontract some of the
services/activities that we would need Red.es to assume, namely:
Support in the design of the physical infrastructure of the FI-WARE
Testbed/OpenLab (number and characteristics of equipments to be placed, as
well as how they will be setup)
Coordination of activities linked to the process of public adquisition of
the equipments linked to the physical infrastructure of the FI-WARE
Testbed/OpenLab
Housing of the physical infrastructure linked to the FI-WARE
Testbed/OpenLab (basic services to be provided linked to the DataCenter
where the physical infrastructure will be deployed)
Provision and operation of connectivity for the DataCenter where the
physical infrastructure will be deployed to Internet
Basic DataCenter operation support (i.e., hardware/housing operation)
Logistic support to dissemination events physically located in the place
where the FI-WARE Testbed and OpenLab would be physically located (i.e.,
Sevilla): inaguration of the testbed, etc.
All these activities may cost a lot, but we have negotiated with Red.es,
after long negotiations, that the overall budget for subcontracting these
activities may be just 190 K? for the whole duration of the FI-WARE
project.
Our idea would be to execute the plan in two phases:
In the first phase (setting up of the FI-WARE Testbed physical
infrastructure on top of which the first release of the FI-WARE Testbed to
be used by UC project will be deployed):
195 K? will be spent by Red.es to acquisition of equipments and
(therefore, not paid by FI-WARE)
40-50 K? will be spent by FI-WARE to subcontract activities to Red.es
(described in our initial mail, still in negotiation)
In the second phase (enlargement of the FI-WARE Testbed physical
infrastructure on top of which the second release of the FI-WARE Testbed
to become part of the FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab):
750 K? will be spent by Red.es to acquisition of equipments (therefore,
not paid by FI-WARE)
140-150 K? (190 K? minus what we had spent in the first phase) will be
spent by FI-WARE to subcontract activities to Red.es (same ones described
in our initial mail)
The deal is feasible because we are just talking about a win-win
situation:
Red.es will run a project that will be partially funded by European
Regional Development funds (FEDER funds) and they have the mission of
managing that sort of projects for ICT in Spain. They find that running
a project that will allow that the main dedicated FI-WARE DataCenter part
of the FI-WARE Testbed be located in a developing region in Spain, as
Andalucia, fits very well their goals. Second, Red.es also operates the
RedIris network as explained above and they believe that placing the core
FI-WARE DataCenter as a node connected to this network is a plus. It may
foster development of research projects based on FI-WARE technologies, for
example. Third, their mission is also to stimulate creation of
innovative ICT infrastructures that easy modernization of SME businesses
and the creation of IT SME start-ups in Spain. They believe FI-WARE may
also help there. Last but not least, setting up a core node of the
FI-WARE testbed in Spain has a "political" value on its own and this is
also something that they have bought (which I believe means rather good
news). There may be other benefits for Red.es you can easily infer if you
think about the visibility of the FI-PPP program but I guess these are the
main ones.
The deal is, of course, quite good for FI-WARE since, as you see, we put
190 K? and we get, in return, 1M? in equipments plus services that cost
much more than 190 K? in my honest opinion (for me, all the things they
will be able to do in return of the 190 K? we subcontract would cost us
much more). Thinking "big", we may think that this plan may stimulate
that others propose donating another datacenters for free so that the
physical infrastructure of the FI-WARE Testbed is enlarged a we end up
building a large pan-european infrastructure.
Now, the point is that we have to manage how we can obtain this 190 K?
from the existing budget and hire the services from Red.es described
above. After some careful analysis, we have found that this budget for
subcontracting could be obtained by performing the following
rearrangements in the existing budget:
We would propose to reduce the budget currently booked for funding
allowances and trips for meetings of the Scientific Council (SC) and
Market Advisory Councils (MAC) so that it becomes 41 K?. This action
would free 100 K?. We believe that it can be implemented by just
reducing the number of members in both councils (from 18 to 8 regarding
the SC and from 10 to 5 regarding the MAC), reducing the number of
meetings of the SC (up to 2) and the duration of meetings (just one day).
Funding per person and trip would be limited to 1.150 ?.
Devoting 20 K? of the 79 K? budgeted for coordination of events, to events
to be located in Sevilla (place where DataCenter linked to the FI-WARE
Testbed/OpenLab would be located)
Transferring funding of some of the PMs linked to UPM in WP6 (Data/Context
Management) into budget for subcontracting of activities to be carried out
by Red.es (this has been agreed with UPM). This should free aprox the
other 70 K? that are needed.
This rearrangements would mean that no budget/funding of existing
partners (apart from UPM :-) would be really affected. If we were not
able to implement a rearrangement like this we are afraid we would have to
go for other schemes (like deducting a % of the funding of each partners)
which is always hard to implement and lead to never-ending discussions.
And we lack of time for it.
I would rather like to implement these changes in the current amendment
of the FI-WARE DoW we are negotiating right now because of the Open Calls
and other stuff. That would allow us to implement the plan ASAP (and you
know that either we launch acquisition of the physical infrastructure soon
or we are going to experience big problems). This would be needed in
order to make sure that we are able to setup the physical infrastructure
on time. We would work so that the physical infrastructure would be
operative beginning of May to start integration of FI-WARE components on
top. Official inauguration of the FI-WARE Testbed/OpenLab could take
place on June 6th, matching the World IPv6 Launch day (
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/) in order to achieve the greatest
visibility. There, we would publicly announce the official date for
availability of the FI-WARE Testbed and we would disseminate our plans.
We look forward your positive response. Design of the requirements
for the physical infrastructure to be acquired will be worked out with
responsible of WP10 and we need to move fast on that space.
Best regards,
-- Juanjo
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