AMRES Combining national, regional and & EU efforts Eastern Europe Partnership Event, 8 November 2011, Bucharest www.amres.ac.rs 1
www.amres.ac.rs Who are we? - Why AMRES/UoB? In 90s UoB (computer centre) was appointed by the Government 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, GN3 tools, other commercial software 2007-2010 AMRES project financed by the Government Recently Serbian Government made a decision to establish new legal entity called AMRES 2
AMRES development Internal infrastructure more than 130 institutions small capacities (up to 2 Mbps) Small capacity of the external link congestion Significant digital divide 2 Mbps towards GRNET Additional 2x2 Mbps International cooperation First step SEERA-EI PSC03 meeting, Belgrade, 21-22 December 2009
AMRES development Donation from Germany and Max Planck institute Support by the Ministry of Science Leap frog Gigabit backbone, dark fiber Internal traffic increase External link still congested First regional project 34 Mbps capacity heavily utilized, but not congested Improved cooperation with endinstitutions and users SEERA-EI PSC03 meeting, Belgrade, 21-22 December 2009
AMRES development New gigabit network dark fiber >20 gigabit intercity links many intra-city DF links 1 Gpbs CBF towards HUNGARNET Backup Internet link through Telekom Srbija New FP 6 projects infrastructure regional connectivity GRID
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AMRES network - current status AMRES: 155 member institutions 150,000 active users ~2200 km dark fibre links 20 cities covered Managed by UoB/RCUB and other service centres CBF towards HU, BA, primary Internet link towards HU (1 Gbps) Backup links and exchange over Telekom Serbia and SBB (34 Mbps, 1Gbps) All the regular network services: IPv4, IPv6, multicast, web, mail, eduroam, DNS, domain registration, VPN, videoconferencing, media portal, server hosting, virtualization, 3-level NOC operating 24/7
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
AMRES legal entity www.amres.ac.rs Established by the Serbian government AMRES takes over all NREN tasks, rights and obligations as of the day of the operational start. AMRES started operations on November 1 st 2011. AMRES will have approx. 40 employees AMRES has managing and supervisory board appointed by the Government University of Belgrade (Computer centre) remains a crucial partner in NREN operation AMRES has Technical council consisted of service centre employees AMRES will offload some of the service operation duties to service centres. 9
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
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: 60+ active users 6 Grid sites, 1094 CPUs, 30 TBs 6 completed FP6 and FP7 projects: 4 university computer centers 17 public research organizations 2 international collaborations 2 SMEs SEE-GRID, SEE-GRID-2, SEE-GRID-SCI EGEE, EGEE-II, EGEE-III 2 active projects: www.amres.ac.rs EGI-InSPIRE, aginfra 11
HPC resources Blue Danube Blue Danube Supercomputing Initiative - http://www.bluedanube.rs/ Lunched in November 2008 Mission: to establish the National Supercomputing and Data Storage Facility 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-SEE www.amres.ac.rs 12
Plans: School network Around 3000 school buildings (2000 schools) Majority of schools connected currently via commercial providers (DSL, 3G) When AMRES starts its operation the traffic from schools will be routed to AMRES Content filtering equipment already in place AMRES will take over the operation of the school network in future www.amres.ac.rs 13
Overview of investments in research and development for the period 2001. 2008.* Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Total Budget for Science 19,1 30,1 45,8 44,9 56,0 74,9 101,4 105,0 477,4 Estimate of total investments in RTD infrastructure 1,91 3,01 4,59 3,86 5,60 9,0 13,2 15,5 56,7 Investment in RTD infrastructure 10% 10% 10% 8,6% 10% 12% 13% 14,8% 11,88% Serbian budget that is spent annually on RTD ICT infrastructure is estimated at 2 million euros (0.005% of GDP) www.amres.ac.rs * Source: Serbia ICT RTD Technological Audit, Mineco, 2010 14
Regulatory Framework esee Agenda+ for Development of Information Society in SEE 2007-2012; (2007) Strategy for the Development of Science and Technology of the Republic of Serbia 2010-2015, (2010) www.amres.ac.rs 15
Main stakeholders Ministry for Education and Science Ministry of Culture, media and information society National Council for Science and Technological development www.amres.ac.rs 16
Plans: Geant PoP and services 10Gbps Geant connection procurement procedure almost finished Eduroam is being spread throughout the country (currently 32 hotspots) Federated services under development Goal: Enriched service portfolio www.amres.ac.rs 17
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