The European HPC cloud platformFor the deployment, management and on-demand usage of simulation software.Andreas Ocklenburg - CEOTamas Kiss – Chair of Advisory Board

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cloudSME Project• Funded by the European Commission FP7 programme –

Factories of the Future initiative• Duration time: July 2013 – March 2016• EUR 4.5 million overall funding• Coordinated by the University of Westminster• 16 initial project partners – including 12 SMEs• 13 new partners (12 SMEs) joined in January 2015 as

result of an Open Call• Focus: foster the uptake of simulation software especially

among small and medium-sized enterprises by offering software as a Service (SaaS) on a scalable platform.

• Founded as a company in January 2016

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Company• Founded by 8 former project partner from 6

different countries• Advisory board with leading scientific and

commercial experts • Registered and based in Duisburg, Germany

– CEO Andreas Ocklenburg– CTO Nicola Fantini – Chair of Advisory Board Tamas Kiss

• Main business: Running and Operating the cloudSME HPC Platform (cloudSME-apps.com)

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What makes us different• Dedicated to “On Demand Usage” of

computational resources with full scalability

• Specialized on the needs of simulation applications and user

• European technology using European data centers to fulfill the security requirements of European enterprises.

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cloudSME platform• Software users from

manufacturing and engineering, mainly.

• ISVs/VARS consultancies to implement their software in the cloudSME platform and/or use cloud integration via API.

• Datacentres/Infrastructure providers (commercial & academic providers & supercomputing centres)

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cloudSME - our mission• Enabling technology to use the

full stack of cloud computing technologies in an easy, efficient, affordable and secure way.

• MSaaS (Modelling and Simulation as a service), includes SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and consulting / advice.

• HPCaaS (High Performance Computing as a service)

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cloudSME - our vision• Growing our business• Support of and Cooperation with

other Research- and Innovation projects

• Activation of our international business

• Becoming a Competence Center for Simulation, Cloud- and HPC computing

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cloudSME – your benefitManaged platform with support and advice

Ideal development and production infrastructure– Independency from underlying resource– Many different commercial and academic resources

available– Easy commercialization for your application via

AppCenter, ready to use– Transparent documentation of jobs, usage of resources

and costs– “White Label” integration in any website / any software

via APIs

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cloudSME commercial offerings 1/2• Simulation applications that can be published and

directly executed from the CloudSME App Center based on the software as a service (SaaS) model.

• Awarded platform technology with powerful capabilities that smoothly enables computationally intensive Fluid Dynamics Simulations (MPI support).

• fast-track deployment & a great variety of cloud integration methods (various APIs, PaaS, Docker).

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cloudSME commercial offerings 2/2• The provision of access to heterogeneous commercial

and private cloud resources (IaaS)as well as European supercomputing centres (i.e. German HLRS, Italian CINECA or French Romeo Center)

• HPC as a service (HPCaaS).• Security: Data operation in European data centres and

industrial security level. Operation mode “Europe only” possible.

• Advanced and proven technology to model workflow solutions.

• The provision of expert consulting services at each step of software integration.

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Main technological components• cloudSME Platform

– enables the deployment and execution of compute-intensive applications on different clouds

– widely automates user, software, resource, job, and invoice management.– has been ranked as No. 1 regarding its innovation potential by the Joint

Research Centre of the European Commission in a latest study.

• cloudSME App Center, including– a public landing page– a web shop, and – a set of commercial services that are available via APIs and can be

integrated into marketplaces or vendor products.

• WS-PGRADE/gUSE Framework– supports the development and deployment of HPC application workflows

across different types of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs)

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cloudSME platform architecture

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cloudSME AppCenter

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cloudSME Platform

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Representative business scenario 1 DHCAE OpenFOAM® SolverDHCAE – OpenFoam Solver in the cloud, www.dhcae-cloud.com• Desktop application• HPC computing resource connected

via API in background• All necessary cloudSME Platform

functions integrated in GUI• White Lable usage (powered by cloudSME)• It’s now an active business case

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Representative business scenario 1 - DHCAE OpenFOAM® Solver

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setup upload simulate download visualize

(GUI)

(Solvers)

CloudSigma, Amazon...

Platform

GUI downloaded from the AppCenter

RuntimeMonitoring

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Representative business scenario 2 – TransAT CFD simulation by Ascomp

Or direct visualisation via ParaView in the cloud without downloading result files

Representative business scenario 2 – TransAT CFD simulation by Ascomp

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Business, we are current working on, some examples ...• Institute for Mechatronics wants the to

enhance their computing cluster via cloudSME platform

• Fortune 500 company wants to market their CAE applications in Europe on an European platform

• Classical Provider (Hoster) wants to enhance their products with server on demand (using cloudSME technology)

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Thanks for your interest!

cloudSMEplatform for cloud architects

CloudSME UGTecTowerBismarckstr. 14247057 DuisburgGermanycloudsme-apps.com+49 203 3639 9955Andreas@cloudsme.eu