e-Infrastructure and Janet6 review and update

Bob Day Chief Technology Officer [email protected]

Janet6 backbone progress

• • • • dark fibre contract – SSE Telecoms – signed end July 2012 optical equipment contract – Ciena – signed early September 2012 roll-out – fibre footprint and points-of-presence – optical equipment final design and build – – IP and Lightpath equipment requirements Janet NOC staffing and process changes communications – overview publications – online briefings

e-Infrastructure additions

• • • funding currently available – £10m contribution to “day 1” backbone – – £12m to extend backbone to academic research sites of strategic importance and not already attached via dark-fibre £4m to enable industrial access to and use of e-infrastructure additional backbone sites – In agreement with the Research Councils – – – – genomics: Norwich and Hinxton campuses meteorology: Exeter (UK Met Office) “Thames Valley” triangle ... RAL/Oxford/Reading biomedicine: London (Francis Crick Institute) Janet Aurora dark-fibre test-bed – continuation and re-configuration beyond October 2013

e-Infrastructure business planning

• • • e-Infrastructure Leadership Council – early BIS draft under discussion – five-year plan (2012-2017) funding for facilities to be used by academe & industry ...

– software and algorithms – – – – – – cybersecurity, authentication, resilience high-capacity communications HPC hardware (ARCHER, PRACE) storage resources skills development, knowledge transfer data preservation Council response to date ...

Use of remaining existing funding?

• • • • ~£3m from backbone extension + £4m for industrial access academic – further expansion of backbone footprint?

– [individual HEI campus network upgrades?] industrial – financial support to piloting industrial use of resources on Janet?

• link to regional and national HPC?

– • link to TSB Catapult Centres?

resolution of state-aid and other regulatory issues both – AAI: productisation & further development of Moonshot technology?

– – higher IA facilities for commercial data?

skills development for effective use of high-performance networks?

Discussion

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