Eastern Europe Partnership Event - 002 zoran jovanovic

• 1. AMRES Combiningnational, regional and& EU effortsEastern Europe Partnership Event, 8 November 2011, Bucharestwww.amres.ac.rs 1

2. Who are we? - Why AMRES/UoB?! In 90s UoB (computer centre) was appointed by theGovernment to develop and operate Serbian NREN.Computer centres of other major universities (NI,NS, KG) were also involved.! UoB Computer centre (RCUB) ! Approx. 40 employees ! Two main teams:! Networking (AMRES)! Software university IS, network monitoring tools, GN3tools, other commercial software! 2007-2010 AMRES project financed by theGovernment! Recently Serbian Government made a decision towww.amres.ac.rsestablish new legal entity called AMRES 2 3. AMRES development Internal infrastructure 2 Mbps towards GRNET more than 130 institutions Additional 2x2 Mbps small capacities (up to 2 Mbps) International cooperation Small capacity of the external link congestion First step Significant digital divideSEERA-EI PSC03 meeting, Belgrade, 21-22 December 2009 4. AMRES development Donation from Germany and Max Planck institute Support by the Ministry of Science First regional project Leap frog Gigabit backbone, dark fiber 34 Mbps capacity Internal traffic increase heavily utilized, but not congested External link still congested Improved cooperation with end-institutions and usersSEERA-EI PSC03 meeting, Belgrade, 21-22 December 2009 5. AMRES development New gigabit network dark fiber New FP 6 projects >20 gigabit intercity links many intra-city DF links infrastructure 1 Gpbs CBF towards HUNGARNET regional connectivity Backup Internet link through Telekom Srbija GRID 6. AMRES development 7. AMRES network - current status AMRES: ! 155 member institutions ! 150,000 active users ! ~2200 km dark fibre links ! 20 cities covered ! Managed by UoB/RCUB andother service centres! CBF towards HU, BA, primaryInternet link towards HU (1 Gbps)! Backup links and exchange overTelekom Serbia and SBB (34 Mbps,1Gbps)! All the regular network services:IPv4, IPv6, multicast, web, mail,eduroam, DNS, domain registration,VPN, videoconferencing, mediaportal, server hosting, virtualization,3-level NOC operating 24/7 8. Current international projects! FP7 ! SEERA-EI ! HP-SEE ! GN3, active in! SA2T3 - Perfsonar! SA3T2 - eduroam! SA3T3 eduGAIN! SA4T1 Software governance best practices! SA4T2 Software quality assurance! JRA2T1 Control and Management! NA3T4 Campus best practice! SA3T4 - eduCONF! NA2 - PR network! Tempus: ViCES 9. AMRES legal entity! Established by the Serbian government! AMRES takes over all NREN tasks, rights andobligations as of the day of the operational start.! AMRES started operations on November 1st 2011.! AMRES will have approx. 40 employees! AMRES has managing and supervisory boardappointed by the Government! University of Belgrade (Computer centre) remains acrucial partner in NREN operation ! AMRES has Technical council consisted of service centre employees ! AMRES will offload some of the service operationwww.amres.ac.rs duties to service centres. 9 10. AMRES projects and plans: 2011 and beyond SEELight project! Financed by the HiPERB plan of the Greek government (80%) and Serbian government (20%)! December 2010 - contract for long term dark fibre lease (15 years) signed. Fibres to be delivered by December 2011.! Rich and redundant dark fibre footprint with approx 4000km of dark fibre in 50 cities. Each city at least 2 institutions totally 110 new institutions! New CBF connections (Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia)! Next activities: DWDM equipment procurement (N x 10 Gb/s)! L2/L3 equipment procurement.! Operational start expected: April 2012 11. Grid resources - AEGIS AEGIS: Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia - http://www.aegis.rs/ ! Founded in April 2005 ! Mission: to provide reliable and sustainable Grid infrastructure for Serbian researchers ! Coordination: Institute of Physics Belgrade ! 25 Members:! 4 university computer centers! 17 public research organizations! 2 international collaborations! 2 SMEs! 60+ active users! 6 Grid sites, 1094 CPUs, 30 TBs! 6 completed FP6 and FP7 projects:! SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID-2, SEE-GRID-SCI! EGEE, EGEE-II, EGEE-III! 2 active projects:www.amres.ac.rs ! EGI-InSPIRE, agINFRA11 12. HPC resources Blue Danube Blue Danube Supercomputing Initiative - http://www.bluedanube.rs/! Lunched in November 2008! Mission: to establish the National Supercomputing and Data StorageFacility and pave the way for the network of Serbian HPC centers! Coordination: Institute of Physics Belgrade! Current installation: PARADOX cluster! 88 x ( 2 x quad core Xeon E5345 @ 2.33 GHz ) = 704 CPU (1 GB of RAM / core)! 50 TB of disk space and Gigabit Ethernet interconnection ! Upcoming installation (2012):! 3000 x86_64-based CPUs! InfiniBand interconnection! M2090 NVidia Tesla cluster! LINPACK: 40 Tflops ! 3 active projects:! PRACE-1IP, PRACE-2IP! HP-SEEwww.amres.ac.rs12 13. Plans: School network! Around 3000 school buildings (2000 schools)! Majority of schools connected currently viacommercial providers (DSL, 3G)! When AMRES starts its operation the trafficfrom schools will be routed to AMRES! Content filtering equipment already inplace! AMRES will take over the operation of theschool network in futurewww.amres.ac.rs13 14. Overview of investments in research anddevelopment for the period 2001. 2008.*Year 2001 2002 200320042005 2006 20072008TotalBudget for Science 19,1 30,1 45,844,956,0 74,9 101,4 105,0 477,4Estimate of total1,91 3,01 4,593,865,60 9,013,215,556,7investments in RTDinfrastructureInvestment in RTD10%10%10% 8,6%10%12%13% 14,8% 11,88%infrastructureSerbian budget that is spent annually on RTD ICT infrastructure isestimated at 2 million euros (0.005% of GDP)www.amres.ac.rs * Source: Serbia ICT RTD Technological Audit, Mineco, 201014 15. Regulatory Framework! eSEE Agenda+ for Development of InformationSociety in SEE 2007- 2012; (2007)! Strategy for the Development of Science andTechnology of the Republic of Serbia2010-2015, (2010)www.amres.ac.rs15 16. Main stakeholders! Ministry for Education and Science! Ministry of Culture, media and informationsociety! National Council for Science andTechnological developmentwww.amres.ac.rs 16 17. Plans: Geant PoP and services! 10Gbps Geant connection procurementprocedure almost finished! Eduroam is being spread throughout thecountry (currently 32 hotspots)! Federated services under development! Goal: Enriched service portfoliowww.amres.ac.rs 17 18. Thank you foryour attention!