ASTRON is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

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SKA Regional Science Data Centres and the European Open Science Cloud

EOSC Stakeholder workshopNovember 30, 2015

Michael WiseHead, ASTRON Astronomy GroupChair, European SKA RSDC Working Group

Michael Wise / EOSC Stakeholder Workshop / November 30, 2015

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Tiered Data Delivery

Astronomer

Regional Centre

Cloud

Sub-set of Archive

Data routing

Regional Centre

Sub-set of Archive

Regional Centre

Sub-set of Archive

Cloud access

SDP Core Facility South Africa

SDP Core Facility Australia

RSCs will be the working surface for SKA science!

SKA Regional Science Centres§ SKA science extraction will require

significant computational resources beyond observatory processing

§ SKA Regional Science Centres (RSCs) will provide these capabilities

§ SKA RSCs must include storage, computing, and user support

§ Working Group to deploy a large-scale, distributed RSC for the SKA in Europe

SKA is expected to produce ~300 PBytes/yr of science data

Michael Wise / EOSC Stakeholder Workshop / November 30, 2015

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European Open Science Cloud for the SKA

European Science & Data Centre

ICT TechnologyCentre

National Science & Data

Centre 1

National Science & Data

Centre 2

National Science & Data

Centre 3

Cloud Services

(Commercial)

Cloud Services

(Academic)

HPC Services

SoftwareServices

Service Provider

EOSC Advantages§ EOSC can provide large-scale storage

and compute capacity to support SKA§ EOSC can support deploying SKA

software stack to cloud platform § EOSC can provide HPC expertise§ EOSC can training and user support for

SKA research community

SKA Challenges for EOSC§ Must provide long-term, persistent

dedicated storage capabilities§ Sufficient computational resources to

allow processing and analysis of SKA data§ Service level agreements on scale and

availability of capacity§ Security and access protocols to support

open data and proprietary data

Astronomy ESFRI and Research Infrastructure Cluster

EC Horizon 2020 (€15 million)

Address synergies and common challenges shared by the various Astronomy ESFRI facilities (SKA, CTA, KM3NeT & E-ELT)